Disaster game.

Studies suggest that game-based learning can serve as a useful educational tool for teaching new concepts and ideas to various populations. For this assignment students will play the “Stop Disasters Game” and answer the questions asked below. The specific instructions for this assignment are as follows: Step 1: Go to the Stop Disaster Game website at: http://www.stopdisastersgame.org/en/playgame.html

Step 2: Play one of the 5 scenarios using the “Medium Difficulty” level.

Step 3: Write down what your mission is for the game. *You will need this for your evaluation of the game*

Step 4: Take a screen capture (CTRL + PrtScn, then paste into Word Doc) of your final score as proof you completed the game. Turn this in as the first page of your report. Step 5: Write and a 2 page paper (double-spaced, 12 pt. Times New Roman, 1 inch margins) evaluating your experience implementing mitigation and preparedness strategies for the particular disaster scenario you played.

All detailed instructions are available on the attached file.This assignment is going through a plagiarism checker software (turnitin). So please make sure that it is a plagiarism free work. If any question come up, please let me know!

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Before the occurrence of the tsunami, I encountered several challenges especially during the execution of the mitigation and preparedness tools and strategies. One of the significant challenges is that I was in a race against time. The game provided approximately 15 minutes for me to have completed and save as many lives as possible. I found this as a huge challenge since the game required more than the time provided to be completed. Another challenge that I encountered is the part where I was needed to identify some hidden vital facts throughout the game. As the game progressed, there was the section where the requirement was to determine the key facts when administering some defensive strategies. The essential facts were fifteen in number and ones I got to identify one it would pop up and record itself on the top of the screen. It was not an easy one, and before the tsunami happened, I had only identified eight key facts only.

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