Dieses Jahr können Sie in der Woche vom 6. bis 10. November das Planspiel „Klimaneutrale Stadt“ spielen. Das Spiel dauert 5 Stunden und ist für 15-30 Schüler*innen zwischen 14 und 19 Jahren geeignet. Das Spiel wird auf Tschechisch gespielt. Jede/r Schüler*in braucht ein eigenes Tablet oder einen Laptop mit Internetanschluss.
Wenn Sie Interesse haben, schreiben Sie bis zum 13.10. an stepanka.chuwa@goethe.de.
It’s getting warmer every year. As we humans make ever more use of fossil fuels, cut down forests and practise intensive agriculture, we are changing the climate: more heat waves and droughts, melting glaciers, rising sea levels.
Participants in the “Climate Neutral City” simulation game competition slip into the role of mayor, a member of “Fridays for Future” or head of the tourism office of the invented city Fonta for the duration of the game. Invited by the mayor representatives of different interest groups gather at a “Round table” in order to negotiate and to decide about possible measurements on how to to reduce the city’s CO2 emissions by half by 2030, based on a fixed budget . It aims to become “climate neutral” and no longer emit any CO2, thus helping stop global warming. To reach this goal, the players must decide on the steps to take and ultimately achieve a result by working together.
At the end of the simulation game, the commission will present the result and record the presentation in a three-minute video.
It makes sense to implement the simulation game as part of a project day or project week.
The simulation game is played on a PC or tablet using browser-based software. The participants can both be discussing and negotiating face to face when at school or -when at home- use a video conferencing tool (.e.g.Zoom) to exchange information during the game.
A simulation game is an exciting didactic teaching and learning format. It facilitates experiential learning, which is considered as particularly lasting – and it’s also fun. The core of a simulation game is a real or fictitious challenge. Participants examine key topic-related questions from different perspectives and learn both how difficult and how important it is to take different interests into account and work out compromises. As the outcome of the game is not predetermined, participants can look for different solutions, while putting their negotiation skills to the test and making decisions. They thus experience and shape challenges rather than merely talk ABOUT them.
The pilot simulation game "Climate Neutral City" (still as a competition) was great fun for both pupils and teachers. 15 schools from 5 countries with a total of 213 pupils between the ages of 14 and 18 who speak German at level A1-A2 took part.
All teachers and on average 89% of the pupils would take part in a simulation game again.
For 77% of the students, the project had a positive effect on their motivation to learn German. They could imagine improving their knowledge of German in such a way that they could take part in a simulation game in German. The videos created at the end of the simulation game, in which they present the result of the round table discussion, document their enthusiasm
