Using serious games to teach sustainability & resilience

This resource offers an introduction to key pedagogies and the learning possibilities of using 'serious games' for education and engagement around sustainability and resilience. The resource explores how serious games can be incorporated into classroom game designs and activities and so strengthen participants' learning engagement. Uses explored in the resource include awareness raising, encouraging action and resilience, and promoting pro-sustainability behaviours.

The activities included are as follows:

• Activity 1. Defining sustainability
• Activity 2. Characteristics of a teaching game
• Activity 3. Game Design
• Activity 4. Gamemaking
• Activity 5. Reflection on teacher practice