Fair Income for Cocoa Farmers

For ages: 10+ – Languages: NL-FR –  Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐ Free game.

In Western countries, many people earn more than a living income. But in the global South, many families do not earn enough. For example, a typical household in Ghana’s cocoa industry earns less than half a living income. In Ivory Coast, a similar family earns less than a third of a living income.

Fair Trade Lessons

Thank you for introducing your pupils to fair trade! This lesson plan enables you to teach about living income in one lesson. You’ll find useful background information for preparation, followed by an activity to use in class.

Link to website: Fair Income for Cocoa Farmers

To Zero Waste

For ages: 7-12 – Languages: FR – Rating:⭐⭐⭐ Free game.

To Zero Waste gives players the opportunity to explore why reducing waste matters. They answer questions about waste and its impact, then explore solutions using the 6 Rs: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse/Repair, Recycle, Return to the Earth, Reconnect.

Reduce waste by refusing what you don’t need.

Players learn to refuse what they don’t need, like junk mail, promo items, single-use packaging, and products harmful to health or the environment. They explore simple solutions like using a ‘no ads’ mailbox sign or shopping in bulk with glass jars and reusable fabric bags.

Link to website: To Zero Waste

Waste from A to Z

For ages: 9-12+ – Languages: FR – Rating:⭐⭐⭐ Free game.

The game helps children learn about waste through themes like raw materials, sorting, supply chains, and recycling. Working in teams, they complete themed missions related to different types of waste, with guidance and support from adults throughout the activity.

Raw Materials

Children use raw material cards to find which one is used to make their team’s material. Then they name three raw materials, renewable or not. They can check their answers with solution cards.

Link to website: Waste from A to Z

Save the World from Plastic

For ages: 10-12 – Languages: NL – Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Free game.

Discover the impact of plastic pollution.

In an escape game, students learn about how plastic pollution affects ecosystems, animals, and people worldwide. They also find out how they can help protect nature. Can they use their imagination and solve all the challenges in time to save the planet? This game is offered in partnership with the Jane Goodall Institute.

Link to website: Save the World from Plastic

Energy scavenger hunt

For ages: 6-10 – Languages: DE – Rating:⭐⭐⭐ Free game.

Take note! To play this online game, the camera must be on, cookies allowed, and not deleted after the session, or the scavenger hunt will be lost.

Information about electricity

Children use a tablet to find information about electricity, answer questions, and solve problems. The game has apps for Android and Apple. (The device requirements are unclear.) The site features a fun animated robot.

Link to website: Energy scavenger hunt

Agwaminga

For ages: 10-14 – Languages: NL – Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Free game.

In ‘Agwaminga,’ student groups take on challenges about water in Ecuador/Esmeraldas. When they complete a task, they earn reward pieces. Together, these pieces build a water purification tower.

Discover the impact of plastic pollution

In an escape game, students learn about how plastic pollution affects ecosystems, animals, and people worldwide. They also find out how they can help protect nature. Can they use their imagination and solve all the challenges in time to save the planet? This game is offered in partnership with the Jane Goodall Institute.

Link to website: Agwaminga

Core Values Game ®

For ages: 12-99 – Languages: NL-EN -DE  Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Paid game.

With the Core Values Game®, you discover your true priorities.

Explore various game modes to identify core values for yourself and others, link them to professions, and understand their daily significance and contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Engage in creative problem-solving together.

The game promotes meaningful conversations, provides enjoyment, and offers endless replayability. Tip cards add depth on topics like effective listening, creative thinking, future planning, and SDGs.

Ideal for citizenship lessons, career orientation, sustainable development projects, and introduction programs. Also useful for developing an educational vision (organizational development).

Includes a storage tin with 60 core value cards, 7 game variants, and 9 tip cards. Online resources include explanations of the core values, creative thinking techniques, and a detailed list of professions from A to Z.

Link to website: Core Values Game®

Rice Up

For ages: 16+ – Languages: NL – Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Paid game.

From the will to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals more broadly and deeply, and to show the interplay between these goals, Willem Bennenbroek and Marieke van Hoof, together with Radboud University, came up with the game Rice Up. In this serious game, you as a player take on the role of a rice farmer in Rurori. You want enough money in the bank, food on your plate and a good future for your children in a healthy living environment. But, that turns out not to be so easy. Rice Up focuses on mapping the dynamics between SDGs. Gradually, this dynamic quickly shows itself in an interactive way.In order to explain the connections between the 17 SDGs, Cultural Anthropology lecturers at the Radboud University, Luuk van Kempen and Lau Schelpen decided to develop a board game. In this ‘serious game’ players experience the daily life of a rice farmer and learn how issues such as food security, farming practices and education interact.

In addition to the everyday choices you will face as a rice farmer in Rurori, your SDG knowledge will be tested and unexpected events will come your way. Knowledge questions are used to ask general information about the SDGs and the current status of these goals. Through event cards, players learn to anticipate their choices and master the system of the Sustainable Development Goals in a playful way. All choices have an effect on your community and your joint SDG score, which you can easily keep track of on our online dashboard. Players try to establish a sustainable future for Rurori together and develop a suitable strategy together. Players manage to achieve larger goals despite inequalities keep seeing? Remember: only together can we achieve the SDGoals.

Link to website: Rice Up

Funny Planet

For ages: 5-18 – Languages: FR – Rating:⭐⭐⭐ Free game.

Funny Planet combines resources in a way that is both interdisciplinary and systemic. It organises activities according to age-group, by starting close to home for young children and presenting older players with planetary challenges.

Experiential, Sensory, Critical,

The activities are innovative by being experiential, embodied, collective and active. At the same time, players are encouraged to think deeply about sustainability issues. The games can be played online or downloaded.

Link to website: Funny Planet

Goals2030

For ages: 10-12 – Languages: NL – Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Paid game

“As experienced …………appeal to learners.” The assignments encourage creative thinking and motivate pupils to integrate their own input.

Citizenship education in practice

Do you want your pupils to participate enthusiastically and creatively in citizenship education? Download the free assignments for an impression of the materials on offer. The Goals2030 website offers step-by-step plans and more than 150 videos.

Link to website: Goals2030