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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Mitigation and Preparedness Tools & Strategy

To intercept the damages that may be caused by the tsunami, I am expected to be prepared, and some mitigation strategies have been provided for the game. One of them is that I am supposed to build a hospital, two schools, and a hotel. The purpose of establishing a hospital is to provide treatment for the injured people during the tsunami, the school is to educate people on the different ways to prevent tsunamis, and the hotels were intended to increase the tourism sector on the beach. Planting of different trees was also a strategy to reduce the damages that were expected (Gampell, & Gaillard, 2016). Examples of the trees included the mangrove trees, coconut tree, and the common trees that would act as defenses. Dunes, water breakers, and…