Do you ever feel overwhelmed with a lot of current events like climate change and not sure how to raise awareness with your kids? Well, help is at hand. These fun free games will be educating and entertaining.
I’ve reviewed some other game sites on this blog before. We’ve let off steam at our work colleagues and boss, and played some more traditional card games and battleships and others here. Now it’s time to get serious with climate change, rhinos, resources and even fight Covid-19 on Plays.org.
Climate change gets real with Heatwave Antarctica
In Heatwave Antarctica you are an ice block trying not to melt. If you put yourself under the sun’s rays, the percentage of your ice will go down right away! Try and move under cloud cover or underwater – then you won’t melt. In this game you can even split yourself in half into two cubes! (You switch between them using a space bar).
This game also reminded me a lot of the Wind and Solar where you had to move the devices around depending on the sun.
Help the Rhino get the mail
Rhino conservation is a big issue, but in this game (Rhino Express) the rhino is quite a smarty and he has a job to do: he has to fetch the mail. (Or you have to help him get the mail through various obstacles).
Conserve our resources by sorting them and participating in food chains
I found World Of Resources the most educational game and something I could definitely use for my ESL kids.
It starts off with a sorting game where you drag and drop natural and man made resources into different categories.
Then: the food chain in action. You have to give your grass sun and water to make it grow. Then you feed the rabbits with the grass. Next you feed the foxes with the rabbits! I think kids will really enjoy this one.
There’s also a section on habitats as well.
Another good game for conserving resources is the recycling one I reviewed last time, Sort the Trash.
Understand the complexities of a pandemic with Fight Virus
One thing I was rather struck with, in playing Fight Virus, is that there is a lot going on at the same time. You have to click on all the green virus’s floating around to get rid of them. You have to click on the desks where people are getting tested (before their time clocks out) and click on the people in the beds to help them too. So you’re basically scrolling along this hospital the whole time trying to manage these three areas, and it’s hectic!
Maybe the awareness is: you have to keep the distance, get tested and treated in time, or else it’s game over?
Play scrabble
This cool word game is just like scrabble. It’s called “Wordmeister.” I played against the computer and had some fun constructing words.
There are loads of other games to explore – go ahead and check them all out on Plays.org.
What kind of games do you like to play?
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