Role-Playing Scenarios
Only a few of the following examples are actually ready-to-run in an undergraduate classroom, but they will provide inspiration and materials for your own role-playing exercises. Many of the scenarios, characters, and assignments need a few added details, which will enable you to tailor them to your course.
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What Should We Do About Global Warming? part of Examples
This module contains an 8-lesson curriculum to study greenhouse gases and global warming using data and visualizations. The students will summarize the issue in a mock debate or a presentation. -
Mock Environmental Summit part of Examples
At the end of a six-week class or unit on global warming, students role-play representatives from various countries and organizations at an international summit on global warming. -
Runaway Greenhouse Effect Exercise part of Examples
This site has a collection of role-playing exercises that provide the students with equations and data to use in collaborative problem-solving. -
Changing With the Tide part of Examples
This lesson plan is written around a brief role-play in which students learn about and act out plants and animals in a salt marsh habitat as the tides change. -
An Activity to Introduce the Geoscience Perspective part of Examples
This role-playing exercise introduces students to geology by having them examine rocks from the perspective of a child, a sculptor, a geologist or someone from another walk of life. -
Being P-Waves and S-Waves part of Examples
Teach students about P-waves and S-waves by having them model them with their own bodies. -
A Golden Opportunity for Science part of Examples
This site is a collection of resources used to teach about gold through history, folklore and geology. It also includes classroom activities, including a debate on modern gold-mining. -
Coral Bleaching: Making Our Oceans Whiter part of Examples
This lesson plan deals with coral reefs and the recent crisis of coral bleaching. It suggests that students engage in a role-playing debate about modifying human activity to protect reefs. -
Eruption! part of Examples
Eruption! is a volcanic crisis simulation model in which students role-play villagers, the governor, volcanologists, and the press, working to preserve their lives and homes from an active volcano. -
The High Plains: Land of Extremes part of Examples
This lesson plan includes a debate about whether the black-footed ferret should be reintroduced onto public lands and a study of the High Plains habitat. -
