Interactive Apps and GamesLA Unified recognizes the expansion of "green gamification" and the role of digital apps in educating and raising awareness regarding sustainability. These apps include standards-aligned lesson plans, citizen science, green activities challenges, personalized guidelines, and interactive resources. If you know about an app not featured here, please let us know.
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QuestaGame - The Adventure is RealQuestaGame is a mobile game that gets players outdoors to discover and help preserve life on this planet. Get outside, find and post images of the diverse species you find, and earn points - all while helping to contribute to national and international species databases.
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JouleBugPlay. Save. Share. JouleBug helps make your everyday habits more sustainable at home, work, and play. Earn points, pins, and badges for sustainable activities and learn about the impact of the things we do. Create a community and compete to see who's the greenest!
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Hashtag ClimateHashtag Climate helps you discover and share actions that you can take against climate change. Create a personalized account specifying the topics you care about and receive information and suggested actions. Then you can share actions with your social media network.
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OffsetThis educational app from NASA's Space Place gets players fighting against global warming in a game that's part pong, part resource management, and 100 percent retro. While you play, you'll learn how the global carbon cycle works, about different sources of carbon, and about the ways alternative energy and reforestation can help offset those sources.
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Project NoahProject Noah is a website and related app tool to explore and document wildlife and a platform to harness the power of citizen scientists.
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Journey North
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RecycleNationRecycleNation is a location-based app that enables users to search for recycling locations, find places to mail in items for recycling, share recycling tips with friends and family, view and track their environmental impact, and more. Choose from one of 13 material categories with more than 2,500 items.
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