From Farm to Fridge: Tackling Milk's Environmental Challenges through a Lifecycle Game

Overview

In this open lesson, the speaker would introduce an educational card game for two to four players centered around Life Cycle Thinking & Sustainability. Students assume the role of milk manufacturers who need to build & redesign milk life cycles and compete to produce milk with the lowest environmental impacts.　The speaker would like to give participants a taste of the game and allow them to explore how sustainable production and consumption can be taught to students through a game about designing the supply chain (life cycle) of milk.

While playing the game, players get to know typical life cycle stages and processes, learn how to identify environmental hotspots and explore environmentally preferable product options that are realistic and aligned with real-world scenarios.　

This open lesson aims to allow participants to explore:
1. using a serious game to teach the complexity and interconnectedness of environmental and sustainability challenges by focusing on how a daily life product that students are familiar with;
2. general tips and takeaways of using games in teaching - it's opportunities and challenges