Climate change is easier to study when it’s presented as a game

By Ian Thacker, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Climate change is among the more difficult but important topics to teach to young people. It involves complicated science and data, and it can be really depressing, given the bleak picture it paints of Earth’s future.

So how do educators get students more engaged in lessons about climate change? One way that works is to make the lessons into a game.

As a professor of educational psychology, I conducted an experiment that found that high schoolers are more interested and absorb more information about…

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