As I mentioned previously, we love Fiasco, but many of the the playsets aren't suitable for our Teen Room audience. Creating your own is easy once you are familiar with the system. We have created several playsets at our branch, and our Natural Disaster playset was created as part of an LSTA Eco-literacy grant.
This playset has allowed us to engage in ecological topics with our patrons where otherwise they might have been more inclined to other activities. Putting the environment or endangered animals at risk in a very immediate and engaging fashion grabbed their imagination and led to discussions after play sessions about other potential threats or issues. This theme is so rich it would be possible to completely re-write it without covering the same ground.
Let us know what you think, or if you make your own variation!
When people and nature interact there’s a lot that can go wrong: pollution, invasive species, poaching, people littering and vandalizing everything…
And that’s just the little stuff.
Here with greedy business tycoons, insane locals, and corrupt government interests, it’s not a question of if something will go wrong but when and how bad.
When all these different interests collide there’s bound to be conflict, whether it’s park rangers chasing down vandals, or protesters trying to keep their favorite nature preserve from being plowed flat by the local tycoon. And all that’s not even taking into account the local wolf population.
Whether this fiasco is all green, or all on fire, is up to you!
Get the Natural Disaster playset.
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