New Pin Locations

Here is a table that shows the countries where our 149 pins are currently located.

We are continuing to add locations.

The aim is to create a local/global experience. Kids learn about the species, plants and areas that are local to them and trade their pins with other kids globally.

It’s easy to add more pins so reach out to us on Facebook , Instagram or Twitter and let us know where you would like to explore. Create a Habitat pin scavenger hunt in your neighbourhood!

Pin	Countries
Highland Cow	Scotland
Golden Eagle	Scotland
Red Squirrel	Scotland
Red Deer Stags	Scotland
Scottish Wildcat	Scotland
Nessie	Scotland
Capercaille	Scotland
Pine Marten	Scotland
Osprey	Scotland
The Cobbler	Scotland
Tian Tian	Scotland
Gannet	Scotland
Hen Harrier	Scotland
Northern Lights	Scotland
Stone of Destiny	Scotland
White-Tailed Sea Eagle	Scotland
Standing Stones Circle	Scotland
Thistle	Scotland
Grey Seal	Scotland
Otter	Scotland
Shetland Pony	Scotland
Kangaroo Paw	Australia
Black Swan	Australia
Dolphins	Australia
Quokka	Australia
Grass tree	Australia
Whale Shark	Australia
Numbat	Australia
Western Grey Kangaroo	Australia
Western Blue-tongue Skinks	Australia
Thylacoleo	Australia
Gurrabal	Australia
Clown Fish	Australia, Malaysia, Japan, Papua New Guniea, Solomon Islands
Red Kangaroo	Australia
Fallow Deer	England, Ireland, Iceland
Black Cockatoo	Australia
Bald Eagle	USA, Canada
Manta Ray	USA, Hawaii, Australia, South Africa, Japan
Saltwater croc	Australia, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia
Brown Bear	USA, Canada, Russia, China, Sweden, Finland, Norway
Bison	USA
California Sea Lion	USA, Mexico
Dolphins	Australia, USA, Mexico, Guatemala
Tundra, Polar Bear	USA
Sasha, Amur Tiger	USA
Indy, California Sea Lion	USA
Betty, Grizzly Bear	USA
Houdini, King Cobra	USA
Dexter, Magellanic Penguin	USA
Cortez, Red-Ruffed Lemur	USA
Opal, Silvered Leaf Monkey	USA
Tuti, Western Lowland Gorilla	USA
Kenya, White-Throated Bee-eater	USA
Leo, Baby Snow Leopard	USA
Jalak, Bali Mynah	USA
Charlie, California Sea Lion	USA
Dash, Gentoo Penguin	USA
Diver, Scaly-Sided Merganser	USA
Zoe, Snow Leopard	USA
Biru, Red Panda	USA
Sid, Babydool Sheep	USA
Dori, California Sea Lion	USA
Anura, Dart Poison Frog	USA
Binda, Dingo	USA
Drummer, Emu	USA
Kobo, Hamadryas Baboon	USA
Dakota, American Bison	USA
Spangles, Andean Bear	USA
Mable, Hyacinth Macaw	USA
Mags, Pronghorn	USA
Cleo, Puma	USA
Duke, California Sea Lion	USA
Nuka, Pacific Walrus	USA
Jacob, Sea Otter	USA
Ocellated Turkey	Guatemala
King Vulture	Venezuela
Kapok Tree	Brazil
Tapir	Brazil
Jaguar	Guatemala
Leafcutter Ant	Costa Rica
Giant anteater	Honduras
Black howler monkey	Belize
Red-Eyed tree frog	Nicaragua
Amazon River dolphin	Brazil
Green Anaconda	Venezuela
African Elephant	Kenya
Scarlet Macaw	Mexico
Monarch butterfly	Mexico
Ruby-throated hummingbird	Peru
Blue Morpho Butterfly	Costa Rica
Cacao Tree	Ecuador
Banana	Honduras
Tea plant	China
Pineapple	Brazil
Flying fox	Australia
Rainbow lorikeet	Australia
Koala	Australia
Humpback whale	Australia
Crayfish	New Zealand
Silver Fern	New Zealand
White Kiwi	New Zealand
Hihi	New Zealand
Tuatara	New Zealand
NZ Fur Seal	New Zealand
Octopus	New Zealand
Blue Cod	New Zealand
Starfish	New Zealand
Little Blue Penguin	New Zealand
Sasa, Sun Bear	New Zealand
Black Oyster Catcher	New Zealand
Brown Kiwi	New Zealand
Long Finned Eel	New Zealand
Kaka	New Zealand
Kereu	New Zealand
Beaver Mannahatta	USA
Bald Eagle	USA
Black Bear	USA
Puma	USA
River Otter	USA
Kiani, Orangutan	Australia
People’s Climate March	USA
People’s Climate March	USA
Tasmanian Devil	Australia
Giant Panda	China, Hong Kong
Polar Bear	USA, Canada, Russia, Greenland, Norway
Amur tiger	Russia, Korea,  China
King Cobra	India, China, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam
Magellanic penguin	Brazil, Argentina, Chile and the Falkland Islands
Red Ruffed Lemur	Madagascar
Silvered Leaf Monkey	Malaysia and Borneo
Western lowland gorilla	Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
White-throated bee-eater	Senegal and Uganda
Baby Snow leopard	Nepal, India, China, Russia, Pakistan
Bali mynah	Indonesia
Gentoo Penguin	Falkland Islands, Argentina, Chile, New Zealand
Scaly-Sided Merganser	South Korea, China, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Russia
Snow Leopard	Nepal, India, China, Russia, Pakistan
Red Panda	Bhutan, China, Myanma, India, Tibet
Poison Dart Frog	Bolivia, Costa Rica, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Panama and Hawaii
Dingo	Australia
Emu	Australia
Hamadryas baboon	Jordan,Yemen and Saudi Arabia, Eritrea to Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia
Andean Bear	Panama, Venezuela,Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina
Hyacinth Macaw	Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay
Pronghorn	USA, Canada, Mexico
Puma	Canada, USA, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile
Pacific Walrus	USA, Canada, Greenland, Russia
Sea Otter	USA, Canada, Japan, Russia, Mexico
Sun Bear	India, Thailand, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Laos, China

Habitat launches curriculum materials

We have just launched our Sustainability Learning Guide, it is based on Habitat the Game, and has been designed to engage and inspire students, teachers and the wider community to play Habitat and take personal and community actions on sustainability. This guide is a dynamic and interactive resource that can be used to extend sustainability actions beyond time in the classroom and while looking at screens.

It has been created for years 3,4,5 and 6.

The methodology used to develop the Guide included collaboration from a wide range of stakeholders including teachers, students and environmental educators from Australia. It links to the National Australian Curriculum. Many of these activities have been inspired by existing materials created by the BBC, NatGeo, The Coal Loader Sustainability Guide and NASA.

Sustainability is one of the core curriculums in the National Australian Curriculum. Download the link here:
http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/crosscurriculumpriorities/sustainability

Habitat Unit plans

This guide can be used as a 10 week unit or individual plans. When using the individual plans it is valuable to download the whole learning guide below.

Habitat the Game Learning Guide – offers a full Version of the guide that includes all of the Lesson Plans.

You can see the individual unit plans on our main website at:

http://www.habitatthegame.com/teachers/curriculum-materials/

Let’s evaluate the game

Can a game change behaviour?

We are looking for teachers to help us collect some data

We would like you to help us answer a couple of questions:

Does the game Habitat increase the practice of environmentally friendly behaviors by players of the game?

Does the game Habitat encourage children to spend more times outdoors?

Calling all teachers!

If you are interested in joining the study please contact me at
kylee (at) habitatthegame.com

I look forward to hearing form you. Base line data collection is fun!

With thanks,

Kylee

How much have you saved?

Captain P is my Habitat user name. I have 3268 Habitat points which places me in 45^th position on the leader board. A couple of weeks back I received an email from 7 year old Madeline telling me she loved the game and she was top of the leader board with over 5000 points.

I can’t see Madeline from my position but I am sure she has racked up many more points by now.

When players sign in we are all asked to sign onto the honour system by ticking a box that says we promise to tell the truth about our real world missions. So there is no way for us to verify if players are lying about what they have done in the real world but I am able to tell you about what I have achieved in the month I have been playing. I have tried to be as accurate about my behaviours as possible and according to my profile I have saved:

–       240 buckets of water,
–       103.8 feet of land, and
–       5181 balloons of carbon.

The calculations of my real world behaviours

So what does this mean? It is the team at Integrated Sustainable Analysis at Sydney University who have up with the algorithms and our measurement tools.

The number of buckets represents the litres of water based on an averaged sized 10 litre bucket or 2.64 gallons.

Buckets of water represent the number of litres of water you have saved

The number of footprints represents the area of land that a player has NOT disturbed by their actions. The measurement is based on a typical human footprint area of 300 cm2 or 47 square-inches.

Represents the area of land you have NOT disturbed

The number of balloons represents the volume of greenhouse gas emissions measured in terms of volume of C02 gas, 1 kg or 2.2 pounds.

The number of balloons represents the volume of greenhouse gas emmissions

Remember all of these actions are based around rewarding players when they are under the national average.

So if we add all of my measurements up I have saved:

–       2,400 Litres of water or 576 Gallons of water
–       31,140 cm2 or 4,878.6 square inches of land
–       5181 kg or 11,398.2 pounds of carbon

I could keep calculating to tell you that each gallon of gas you put in a car produces 14 pounds of carbon dioxide. My behaviours equate to about the equivalent savings of over 800 gallons of gas.

Although we can never verify the actions of our players, right now we have a couple of thousand kids playing and collectively they have saved:

Community Saved Water Buckets: 32703.48

Community Saved Soccer Fields: 882965.09

Community Saved Light bulbs: 2935397.98

And who said kids can’t make a difference? It is going to take top down and bottom up approaches to address global issues like climate change and we need our kids to know they can be part of the solution.

We are keen to know what you have saved and what that equates to. Please share your profile with us on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/habitatthegame

To learn more about how Sydney University came to calculate these savings go to our previous blog post:

https://habitatthegame.wordpress.com/2014/03/22/incentivising-players-to-reduce-their-footprint-by-25-below-the-national-average/

 

Letter to Teachers – Habitat and school curriculum

Sometimes the best way to learn about our earth and the species which inhabit this planet is by experiencing it. While HABITAT is essentially a game, it is more importantly a dynamic learning tool with real implications. A game where schools, classes, teachers and individual students and their families can actively participate in exploring, discovering, learning, acting and bringing about positive environmental change.

HABITAT is attuned to the Australian Science Curriculum for students in years K-6 and thereby asks questions about the world in which we live. It nurtures curiosity, offers inquiry problem solving situations and develops a solid foundation of knowledge that students can apply to real life – in particular their own life.

 

Sustainability is an embedded theme in HABITAT and therefore is relevant to all K-6 learning levels. It provides the platform to ascertain our collective and individual impact on the earth’s sustainability. Importantly HABITAT is a comprehensive educational resource that engenders active and environmentally responsible global citizens while being engaging and fun.

Specifically HABITAT is relevant to the Australian Science Curriculum in the following topics:

‘Years K–2 (typically from 5 to 8 years of age)

Curriculum focus: awareness of self and the local world

Unifying ideas:

• Exploration
• Observation
• Order
• Change
• Questioning and speculation

Years 3–6 (typically from 8 to 12 years of age)

Curriculum focus: recognising questions that can be investigated scientifically and investigating them.

Building on the unifying ideas of exploration, observation, order, change, questioning and speculation, the unifying ideas of this age range are:

• Patterns
• Systems
• Relationships
• Evidence and explanations’

Draft Consultation version 1.1.0 Australian Curriculum

ACARA Australian Curriculum Consultation Portal 14/07/2010 6

Classroom syllabus topics relevant to the curriculum can be applied to the learning of:

• Threatened species
• Endangered species
• Animal physical characteristics
• Diet and food consumption
• Behaviour
• Breeding and population
• Habitats and needs
• Geographical regions
• Environment protection
• Conservation
• Sustainability

Authour:

Anne Chesher
Quadrant Productions
Media+Education