Category Archives: Curriculum
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?
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 45th 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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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
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