Resources

Getting to Zero is a physical card game that is conceptualised for secondary school Geography students or anyone interested in Singapore’s energy options. The overall objective of the game is to enlighten student players on the kinds of national/institutional strategies that can be employed to strive for net-zero emissions as well as their accompanying trade-offs. The game consists of elements such as game cards, game currency and a scoring sheet for competitive game play. Student players will be presented with a slew of anthropogenic activities with varying carbon footprints (e.g. deforestation, coal mining). The player who has expended the least amount of financial resources to ensure the lowest level of emissions wins the game.

A sample lesson package for secondary school students can be found here:

Lesson Plan for Getting to Zero

Resources for Stakeholders

Getting to Zero:  How to play

Getting to Zero: The explainer

Getting to Zero Facilitation prompts

SLL has collaborated with STEM Inc. and CHIJ Primary Toa Payoh to produce an SLS lesson for upper primary students. View the lesson package here:  https://vle.learning.moe.edu.sg/community-gallery/lesson/view/1de5215a-4516-48ce-a31f-6a99082ed3ae/cover

This lesson plan was contributed by Mayflower Secondary School.(View the lesson plan)

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haBEEtat is an educational card game for 2 to 4 Players. It features the 4 Honey Bee Species in Singapore.

While all Bees and pollinators play an important role in our Ecosystem, Honey Bees are the only pollinators that live in large numbers, can sting, and are more likely to adapt to living in urban settings. As such, they are the ONLY pollinator that is often targeted for extermination.

One of the 5 pillars of Singapore's Green Plan is City in Nature. Honey Bees, Bees, and all other pollinators are a crucial part in sustaining and maintaining our Ecosystem.

haBEEtat (and the accompanying resources provided here) aims to educate players in a fun way about the importance of Honey Bees and the alternative choices we have when they move into or close to our living areas.

To know more about haBEEtat, 

• Game Resources
• Knowledge Base

To order haBEEtat, click here.

The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) lab has 25 work stations to facilitate teaching, learning, and research related to cartography, GIS, and remote sensing. Each work station is installed with mapping software (e.g. ArcGIS, ERDAS IMAGINE) for students or staff to process, analyse, and visualise geospatial data (in the form of e.g. land cover/use, flood/drought hazard/risk maps) on multiple scales. Geospatial data analysis is typically a crucial component of investigations on environmental change as well as the sustainable management of resources, urban development and natural hazards

The Environmental Studies Lab is furnished with laboratory and field equipment to support research on the physical environment (e.g. water, sediments) as well as ways in which environmental quality or sustainability can be maintained. Some of the laboratory equipment that have been installed include a drying oven, a muffle furnace (a furnace for isolating solid material from combustible material), sediment sieves (for analysing sediment size distribution) and a storage refrigerator.

Additionally, the lab stores a range of field equipment that are integral to the study of, for example, the sustainable management of river basins. These equipment include advanced Global Positioning System (GPS) units (to locate or trace sites), soil augers/corers (for collecting soil samples at depth), an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (to measure the velocity of a river), a sub-bottom profiler (to determine the physical/geological properties of a riverbed), a Hummingbird eco-sounder (to determine river bathymetry) and a water quality meter.

Taken together, the GIS and Environmental Studies Labs are places where new knowledge on various aspects of the natural-human landscape is generated, which may in turn inform how environmental challenges can be more effectively addressed.

Adva is an educational application designed to raise environmental consciousness and to incite individual action for transformative social change. It serves primarily as a calculator of the user’s carbon footprint based on their lifestyle choices. It also incentivises environmentally sustainable tasks/practices by awarding the user with discounts or cash back on sustainably sourced/produced items, as well as Starbucks vouchers. 

Additionally, Adva is able to recommend customised tasks/activities based on the user’s overall lifestyle proclivities while informing them on how their actions may benefit the environment. Accordingly, users can select a preferred carbon reduction path to embark on, as well as imagine their own virtual sustainable ‘planet’. More details can be found here (https://www.adva.io/). 

If you are interested to know more about the pedagogical affordances of the Adva app please and digitally enabled learning in general, please refer to (insert link to) an article written by student teacher Colin Leong.

Please click on the links below to learn more about using Adva and the Teaching & Learning Resource Package

A Step By Step Guide on how to use Adva

Teaching and learning resource package: Using the Carbon Calculator Application (Adva) as a pedagogical tool to promote pro-environmental action

The intent of these clips is to demonstrate how Geography teachers can enact the inquiry approach in field based Geographical Investigations. 

Corresponding powerpoint slide deck available for download:
First lesson presentation PPT

Rain garden at NIE