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BIGFOOT littlefoot - Environmental Board Game
Board Game Concept
- This game uses the idea of “ecological footprint” or the amount of land required to support a certain activity or lifestyle as the unifying principle of the game.
- In moving around the board, each player attempts to reduce his/her individual footprint.
- Players also cooperate to earn puzzle pieces which make up a map of the eco-regions of the Yukon. To do this, players collect Yukon Wild Cards (which can be traded for puzzle pieces) by answering questions on the Yukon environment.
Game Objective
- To have fun and learn!
- To complete the Yukon eco-regions puzzle while reducing one’s own ecological footprint.
Basic Game Play
- Players: Up to 8
- Equipment: Canvas playing board, puzzle pieces, footprint playing pieces (small, medium, large), die, Consequence cards, Opportunity cards, Yukon Wild Cards (with ten species of Yukon fauna).
- Age: Designed to fit with the BC-Yukon curriculum for Grades 4-7, but just about anyone this age or older will enjoy it!
- Each player starts with a medium sized playing piece, representing a medium footprint. Each player is also a “steward” of a certain animal species, and is responsible for distributing cards to other players (and himself/herself) when earned.
- Players roll a die, or use Opportunity cards to move around the board. They can land on animal spaces, Consequence Card spaces or other special locations like a toxic waste dump,
- In order to collect a Yukon Wild Card, which can be used to earn puzzle pieces, they must land on animal spaces and answer questions on the Opportunity Cards correctly.
- When they have Wild Cards representing one carnivore, one omnivore and two herbivores, they can trade them in for a puzzle piece.
- Players reduce their footprint by making appropriate environmental choices (indicated in the Consequence Cards), or by placing a puzzle piece on the map.
- The game finishes when the entire puzzle of Yukon eco-regions is completed and everybody has a small footprint (or allotted time for play runs out).
Contact the Conservation Education Coordinator Environment Yukon, Conservation Officer Services Branch Government of Yukon Box 2703 (V-18) Phone: 867-667-3675 Email: remy.rodden@gov.yk.ca |
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