1. Recycle Chase Team FABC Alecia Becks Brunisha Brooks Chrissy Harkless Fabian Orlumkpo

2. Design Vision To provide children an opportunity to evoke an intellectual consciousness about recycling through an exploration of relevant learning about recycling products through the use of technology and gaming. Purpose To encourage children to be aware of the possible effects of not recycling and also to allow them to demonstrate proper recycling of plastic products, which can make a difference in our environment.

3. Design Objectives The learner will be able to identify a recycling product – plastic bottles; The learner will be able to explain why they should recycle; and, The learner will match plastic products in the disposal container.

4. Design Concept To provide a fun, educational game about recycling plastic bottles Audience 9-12 year old children in Detroit who know little about recycling Genre Instructional Theme To promote a healthier environment through recycling

5. Design Rules & Scoring The participant will play a maze game to learn about recycling plastic bottles. They will gain points for collecting plastic bottles in a recycling bin. A trash container will chase the recycling bin while the participant tries to collect bottles.

6. The Game

8. Link to the Game

9. Evaluation The Kids who helped us Jamal – 12 years old Kendell – 10 years old Beatrice – 12 years old Chimene – 15 years old

10. Evaluation Sequence 1.Short group meeting to explain what we are doing and answer questions 2.Respondents assigned to a work station and rotated from station to station 3.Each respondent participated in online survey 4.Observed children playing between evaluators 5.Focus group of evaluators and participants

11. Evaluation Tool Developed  What I love? What I hate? ________ ________

12. Work Station Comments I LOVE  I love the colors  It tested us about recycling  Fun to play  This is just like Pac Man  I love this green game(maze)  A challenge  Fun Trivia questions not to difficult I HATE   You do not loose points for dying  Game keeps getting faster and faster  It (garbage can) does not follow you  Trivia questions unrelated to recycling  Game not working for me

13. Evaluation Work Station Contents A.Green and white game introduction written in flash B.A trivia game C.A power point presentation with game instructions, music and graphical images of animals and nature D.The recycle chase video game E.Online survey F.Overflow station for children to watch cartoons while waiting for a station to free up

14. Focus Group Comments The participants suggested names- Happy Earth, Earthy Happy They experienced unclear or confusing levels of the game and scores were inconsistent with increasing levels The 15 year old would NOT recommend the game to 8 th grade or higher. They were observed in engaging discussions amongst themselves about their game experience and teasing each other (typical)

15. Questions?