After this game, students will be able to demonstrate the following (in age-appropriate ways):

Understanding and valuing nature (primary)

• Habitat needs (Mud meaning): When playing a Mud card, students can give one correct habitat reason (e.g., cooling, insect protection, sun protection) in one short sentence at least once.
• Resources and responsibility (Water meaning): When a Washing card or Rain card is played, students can identify it as using/affecting a shared resource by correctly moving 1 Water Drop on the Shared Nature Meter and saying “need” or “waste” (one word) at least once.
• Nature as a system (Rain / Lightning): Students can state that some events affect everyone (e.g., rain changes all pigs) using a simple phrase such as “Nature affects all of us” at least once during the round or debrief.

Stewardship, protection, and consequences (primary)

• Protection actions (Barn / Lightning Rod): When placing a Barn or Lightning Rod, students can name what they are protecting (safety/shelter/prevention) in one short phrase at least once.
• Protection vs control (Shut Door): When a Shut Door is used, students can choose between the words “protection” or “control” (one-word classification) and explain in one sentence during debrief.

Values to actions (primary)

• Common good thinking (shared meter): Students can describe the shared meter idea in simple terms:
• “Our choices affect the water/care tokens,” or
• “We share the water,”
• at least once in the debrief.

Emotional awareness, regulation & communication (secondary but essential for safe play)

• Emotion vocabulary: Students can name one feeling that appeared during play (e.g., disappointed, excited, frustrated, proud) and link it to an action (e.g., “I felt frustrated when my pig got washed, so I took a breath.”) during debrief.
• Regulation strategy: Students practice at least one quick strategy during play when disappointed (e.g., pause + breath + “next plan”) with teacher prompting.

Connectedness (secondary)

• Respectful competitive language: Students can use at least one respectful sentence stem during play (e.g., “I choose this because…” / “Next time I will…”) instead of teasing/attack language.
• Shared responsibility: Students can show awareness that the Shared Nature Meter belongs to everyone by making one suggestion like “Let’s try protecting instead of washing so much” (during play or debrief?”