Students become ‘board game manufacturers’ who have been assigned the task of designing, producing, trialling and evaluating a board game that will help people learn key animal care messages, in a fun and interesting way.

Students will need to research an area of animal care to base their game, complete a design brief, create a game board, make any playing pieces that are needed and write the playing instructions. They may work alone or in a small group.

Before starting their board game, students will need to engage in research activities to find out information about the animal care topic they want to base their game on. Once the game is completed, then the real fun can begin – students can demonstrate and then lend their games to other classes or set up a game playing station in their classroom, school library, public library or local community centre.