Online game to raise climate change awareness in the Yorkshire Dales

A METHOD of raising awareness of the effects of climate change in the Yorkshire Dales has been created by Sense Internet.

The Leeds-based digital firm has designed an interactive online game for the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, which features issues such as litter and recycling as well as rising temperatures.

The content support information taught in schools at key stages two and three but is suited to all ages.

Aidan Cook, Sense Internet’s managing director, said that the interactive game is the most cost efficient way to engage web users and help them think about the effects of climate change.

“The outcome of the game depends partly on a throw of the online dice echoing the real-world situation of the riskdy economic and environmental climate we’re living in at the moment,” he added.

Stuart Willis of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority said that teachers were a key target for the game as it is a valuable teaching resource.

“This in turn should increase interest in the authority as a relevant source of educational material and increase school and family visits to the Dales,” he said.

The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority was established in 1954 and covers an area of 1,762sq kilometres.