The Abstract
In this report, we would be sharing about our creation of the boardgame “3TYZ Weather Party” and our journey in this project work “GRACE”. We will discuss the rationale behind the invention of this game as well as how to play it. We also document the interactions betweenthe group members and the lessons we learned about global warming and working together. In addition by creating this boardgame, we hope that our product would increase the interest of global warming to the childeren about how serious it can be and telling them that if we do not do anything about it,the earth is going to die.
1 Introduction
Global warming is a major concern to everyone living on earth.This has affected the weather pattern which would have affected the growth rate of crops .Thus, this would result in decreasing number of crops produced due to disasters such as droughts or floods.Therefore, the purpose of this report is to explain the rules of our game which is to increase the awareness of global warming.
In this report,we would also be sharing about our experience and procedures during this project. The aim of the report is to explore the facts about global warming and our boardgame.
1.1Background
Global warming refers to the increase in the average temperature of earth's air and oceans since the mid 20th century. Most of the observed temperature increase since the middle of the 20th century was caused by the increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases, which results from human activity such as fossil fuel burning and deforestation.
Its also relates to changes from region to region around the globe, though the nature of these regional variations is uncertain. In addition,the greenhouse effect is the absorption and emission of infrared radiation by gases in the atmosphere. The major greenhouse gases are water vapor, which causes about 36–70 percent of the greenhouse effect; carbon dioxide which causes 9–26 percent; methane which causes 4–9 percent; and ozone , which causes 3–7 percent .Human activity such as pollution has also increase the amount of greenhouse gases .
The greenhouse effect is the rise in temperature that the Earth experiences because certain gases in the atmosphere (water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane, for example) trap energy from the sun. Without these gases, heat would escape back into space and Earth’s average temperature would be about 60ºF colder. Reason being of how they warm our world, these gases are referred to as greenhouse gases and this increase of greenhouse gases had cause the increase of global temperature .
The increase of global temperature had caused sea level to rise and changing the pattern of weather known as precipitation. This can lead to disasters such like droughts , floods and other disasters which can cause harm. Global Warming is expected to be strongest in the Arctic and is associated with the melting of glaciers, permafrost and sea ice. Other serious effects include changes in the intensity of extreme weather events, species extinctions, and changes in agricultural yields.This intensity of weather events could cause more instances of vector-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue
However ,many are ignorant to the fact that human activity has cause the increase of concentration of greenhouse gases. Thus,our group has decided to create an inventive board game to increase the awareness of global warming.
2 Our Project
2.1Survey,Analysis &Result
We surveyed a total of 50 students in our school and the age group is from 12-14
Figure 2.1
From the graph in figure 2.1, we found that most of the people who took the survey knew about global warming based on figure 2.1. However there were still people who were ignorant about the fact. Thus, we hope that this game would help them in getting a deeper understanding of global warming.
Figure 2.2
Figure 2.3
Base on results from the graphs in figure 2.2 and figure 2.3 , we can say that the percentage of people who preferred the idea of a board game and those who preferred a card game were almost the same. This gave us the trouble of choosing which type of game we wanted to create as our product for this project work.However we were still able to complete our product.
Hence, we decided to mix both card and board game together to form our weather game. We faced some problems with the survey as the percentage of people who like the idea of board game or card game were actually the same.
Figure 2.4
From our results from figure 2.4, there is a small population of people who were not sure if they had done the 3Rs.We think that our board game might help this people,and make them understand that the importance of reduce,reuse and recycle.
Although the results from the survey was not up to our expectation, we still appreciate those who had put in their heart and soul in doing the survey and we would like to thank the people who took the time to do the survey.
2.2 Board-game
The board game has a total of 46 boxes including the special alley .We got this idea for our board-game by mixing both monopoly and the wii game 'Mario Party 8'.In 'Mario Party' after each player have finish their turn ,they would have to play a mini-game. However in our weather party, when each player has passed the green box where the special item is placed, they have a choice in whether to get the item .
Number of players: 2-4
Board Game Consist of:
1) Game pieces of 4
2 decks of cards known as “Chance and Fate”
2 dices
200 coins
5)There would be 2 boxes for the question cards 'Chance' and 'Fate' to be placed in
6)There would be 5different colour boxes:
Landing on Blue Box – add 2 coin.
Landing on Red Box - minus 2 coin
Landing on Green Box- bring you to a special alley
Landing on White Box in the alley and Black Box in the alley:Add 3 coins
7)There are also 2 types of boosts specially made for the special alley
8)There are 2 bases to place these boosts which are right beside the 'Chance' and 'Fate '
There are three cards which tells you that a player has collected a “Go-Green Item”
Aim of the game: Get all three “Go-Green Items”
Rules of game:
1)To get started roll 2 dice, the player who rolls the highest will start first
2)The of the game pieces would be also by the rolling of the two dice
3)Put the games pieces on the the box “START”
4)Each player would start with 2 coins at the start of the game
5)-When you land on a blue box you will gain 2 coins and you would have to answer a question from the deck of cards known as “Fate”.
-If you are able answer the question correctly from the card deck “Fate” ,you can earn an extra of 1 coin
6)-If you land on the red box you would have to minuse 1 coin and you would be asked a question from the card deck “Chance”.
-If you are able to answer the question, the minusing of coins would be cancelled.
7) -To win the game, you would have to get 3 out of 3 of the go-green items.
-The minimum bid for each would be from 1 coin
-Each Go-Green Item would have a minimum and maximun you can bid
-The Solar Panel:1-20 coins
-The Hydrogen Cell:1-30 coins
-The Solar Powered Car :1-40 coins
8) -When a player passes or lands on the go-green item space, he or she has to place a mininum of 1 coin for that item.
-Once that one of the go-green items has reached it maximum , the person who place the last coin will win the item.
-the player who had won the item will be given a card to show that he or she has collected the item.
-The coins which each player had used would returned to the bank of 200 coins.
9)-To enter the special alley you would have to pass by the first green box closes to the start line.
-A question would ask from the card deck”...”
-If the player is able to answer the question correctly, he or she can enter the special alley.
-However if the player could not do so, he or she shall continue with the normal route.
10)-As the special alley has both white and black boxes, there will be boosts for each box
-Players with the boost can use the boost at anytime during the game.
11) -When a player had passed the start line, he would be given another two coins.
– The game will continue like this until one of the players had collected all of the items.
-If there is a equal amount of items of which each player had collected, it would be concluded by the number of coins each player had left with them
12)So, the player with the most coins wins.
The idea of collecting coins is from the game Mario Party 8 which was stated by one of our member in this project work.The structure of the board is from the idea of Monopoly.
We hope by answering the questions in our game, it can bring out the message about how serious global warming is and allowing other to have a deeper understanding of how our ignorant actions by humans are affecting the earth itself. Other of the game's objective is to have some knowledge about global warming. The title of the game is “3tyz Weather Party”.We decided to use the word “party” as we would want everyone to have a enjoyous time in learning the facts about global warming and having the thought of saving mankind and our planet earth by treating the earth like our own home .As we know the earth's fate is in our hands and we must save the earth.
2.3 Interactions
At start of the IPW, we were not very friendly towards each other, especially with Wei Yang as he had just transferred from another class to our class so as to take Higher Chinese. We were all very bored and did not treated this project work really seriously as we knew that this project would be hard and time-consuming due to the fact that we had to complete our own product.
At first, we chose the question on how the weather affects the breeding of mosquitos.However, after doing some brainstorming and discussion about the product for the future of this project work,we decided it would be nerve-racking to do such a product. The only way to build such a product was to breed our own mosquitos which would be troublesome and difficult task to do. It was then when we saw that the question which required us to create a weather game to increase the awareness to others.It was then we began to grow an interest in this project work and had a optimistic attitude towards this project excluding one of our members..
During our discussion about the product, this member did not do anything that we asked him to do. Fortunately for the rest of us, we were very friendly among each other and even make Wei Yang one of our best friends. Gradually , we worked together to process the plan for the product like the rules and soon made the product real . Unfortunately, the group could not really progress fast enough due to the fact that our member did not do his part for the project and we even decide to give him a low grade after much discussion. He sat alone isolating himself from every discussion about the product . We began to dislike this member as he did not participate in our project and only wrote his late reflections only when our facilitator tells him to do so even after telling the whole group before-hand.
We had also discussed about what type of game we would create .We decided that the boardgame had to be educational, appealing to the masses. We ran into solve problems when we could not decide between a card game or a boardgame. However, after we polled a large group of people and found that a card game and a boardgame enjoyed equal favour and decided to combine the two.
After the our group's decision to do the board-game , we found that this project was interesting and meaningful. So we decided to be more serious and treated this as an entertainment and not to find this boring in anyway other way and created the product. Hence, everyone started to be more cooperative and put in a lot of effort to do our own work.
Almost everyone in the group acted responsibly especially Tian Zhen and Wei Yang.They would even help the other group members if they had any difficulty with their task given .Everyone was willing to fork out money to buy the material we need for the weather game. Throughout the whole June holidays , Wei Yang, Tian Zhen and Jian Sheng did all the cuttings and trimmings. After finishing the making of the board game and Wei Liang designed the board game by drawing some weather-related stuff. One of the most complicated things we had to do was to think of the questions about global warming for the game. We had to find the information from the internet, and formed them into questions. We also had to think of the answers to answer the questions. We learnt much ourselves and thus we were even more sure that our boardgame will help increase the awareness of global warming.The most interesting part in this project work was that everyone could work together and the most important thing was that everyone in this group were willing to serve and contribute to the group research.
From the group blog, it could shows that everyone was hardworking. Everyone did their reflection. Tian zhen did 14 reflections, Wei Yang did thirteen reflections, Jian Sheng did twelve reflections , Wei Liang did 11 reflections and wei qin did 6 reflections. From this result, it can shows that everyone did their part to make our group a better group. Our group members had posted a lot of comments regarding about this project. These posts includes the group's suggestions, questions and our group progress.
Even though we had extra work to do , we were determine to finish the project. . By doing this report , we would firstly want to thank Tong Jian Sheng for all his hard work he had put in. He was the member who worked together with WeiYang to finalize the idea of the product. In addition we also want to thank Tian Zhen for pushing us hard enough and nagging at us to let us finish the product on time. He is very hardworking person and always comes early in the morning to Wei Yang's house to finish his role in doing the product without taking a break. When our product had any errors , he would try really hard to correct it.
As for Wei Yang, he is a boy with great tolerance and patience. He was the member who finalized the rules and ideas of the game which took him time to correct after every group meeting. Lastly for Wei Liang works very hard for our presentation and the product making. He was in charged of designing the product which beautified our product.
3.Conclusion
From this project work, it gave us an opportunity to learn skills which we could not learn from normal lessons in school such as making a product together as a group, creating a survey, brainstorming , writing report and many others which would prepare us for the future. Even though we could not choose our own friends as group partners, we were still able to finish our tasks for this project work and learnt the value of cooperation. This also allowed us to have a deeper understanding of each other feelings and attitude towards this project. To conclude, our group would really also like to thank our facilitator, Mrs Susan Neo, who guided us throughout our journey in this project work assignment. Thank you.
