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Games for the Future

In this activity, learners participate in futures thinking and learn about the United Nation's global goals for sustainable development by playing a series of games.

DESCRIPTION

Games for the Future is a set of activities designed to engage participants in futures thinking and learning about the UN’s Global Goals for sustainable development. The games include:

  • Cards for Humanity, where players brainstorm ways that members of their community can help tackle the Global Goals
  • Seeing Sustainability, where players use their imagination to discover how the Global Goals might relate to works of art
  • Silly Sustainability Stories, where players roll a set of six dice and then create a story

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  • Two decks of cards from the Cards for Humanity Activity
  • seeing sustainability cards How can you build a sustainable future cards from deck
  • Cars for Humanity game cards showing two cards from deck
  • Silly sustainability stories cube graphics
  • Sustainable Futures logo in full color
  • Two decks of cards from the Cards for Humanity Activity
  • seeing sustainability cards How can you build a sustainable future cards from deck
  • Cars for Humanity game cards showing two cards from deck
  • Silly sustainability stories cube graphics
  • Sustainable Futures logo in full color

DESCRIPTION

Games for the Future is a set of activities designed to engage participants in futures thinking and learning about the UN’s Global Goals for sustainable development. The games include:

  • Cards for Humanity, where players brainstorm ways that members of their community can help tackle the Global Goals
  • Seeing Sustainability, where players use their imagination to discover how the Global Goals might relate to works of art
  • Silly Sustainability Stories, where players roll a set of six dice and then create a story

JUMP TO BROWSE RELATED RESOURCES

OBJECTIVES

BIG IDEA

Sustainability means healthy people, communities, and environments, now and in the future.

LEARNING GOALS

    • Understanding of big ideas related to sustainable futures.
    • Awareness of the ways that sustainability is relevant to their lives and issues they care about.
    • Sense of self-efficacy related to sustainability, including their ability to take sustainable actions and participate in conversations about sustainable futures.

Credits

YEAR CREATED
2020
OWNING INSTITUTION

Arizona State University

FUNDING

The Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability in Science and Technology Museums program is supported through funding from The Rob and Melani Walton Foundation.

PERMISSIONS

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US).
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DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

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