Global Warming Game for Kids

Reader Contribution by Brenna Long
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With my tools in hand, I was ready to solve global warming. I wasn’t the only one in this planet-saving race. I had talked my fiancé, Cole, and his roommate, Jay, into accompanying me on my adventure. 

No, we didn’t pack our bags to scale large mountains or search the planet for scientific evidence to save the planet. Instead, we huddled around their coffee table playing Cool It!, a new card game developed by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) to teach children about global warming.

This card game for ages 8 and up presents the problems and solutions of global warming in a way young minds can understand. Even though the cards were written by UCS scientist and engineers, the content reaches a younger age with the help of simple facts and pictures.

The actual game is pretty simple and only takes about 10 minutes. Each player has three sector cards (energy, transportation and forest). The goal is to have two solution cards on each. Opponents can cover up your solutions with problem cards. Solutions have blue thermometers in the corners, while problems have red thermometers.  

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