As a child I remember playing numerous educational games and distinctly recall my late grandmother telling me how important one’s education is.
As a child I remember playing numerous educational games and distinctly recall my late grandmother telling me how important one’s education is.
“People can take away anything but your education,” she would repeat as we played what I thought were sometimes boring educational games. Recently, I was given two exquisitely packaged environmental games to review and boring they most certainly were not.
Enviro Wiz is a question and answer board game that has been developed to teach people about nature and the environment.
The games are designed for two age groups: a junior version suitable for children from six years and the original version for children from 13 years to adult.
The content of the games will keep you on your feet, making you constantly sift through the files in your brain for answers to sometimes tricky questions.
Questions are translated into Afrikaans on one side of the card and cover topics ranging from water and electricity to relevant Acts in our country, animal facts and geographical questions. Local qualified teacher Samantha Theuma played the game with me and a 10 year old.
“These educational games are fantastic learning tools and would serve as phenomenal teaching resources in a classroom setting," she said.
"They are interactive and are strong learning aids for youngsters, particularly if a teacher were to guide the class through the questions and answers.”
While playing and dealing with some puzzling questions, players will stumble upon some rather amusing fun Eric cards that will cause laughter by asking you to repeat an environmental tongue twister, move backwards or even skip a turn.
The junior game has some 215 question and answer cards while the original game has 225 cards, which means you’ll be presented with an endless supply of fresh questions and you are bound to learn something new.
The Enviro Wiz game supports two charity organisations by donating money from each game to them.
They are SAMREC in Port Elizabeth, which works toward the rehabilitation of African Penguins, and WESSA for a project on DNA testing of Rhinos.
You can read more about the Enviro Wiz game on their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/EnvirowizBoardGame or on their website at http://www.envirowizgame.co.za/ editor@grocotts.co.za
