Education

LogiCity is designed to be both fun and educational. Although it's aimed at older children (KS3+ and young adults), the gameplay and the concepts are suitable for most children from 10 or 11 years upwards. The game itself is split into 5 activities ranging from a family role-play about what forms of transport to use to a decision oriented game where players have to maximise carbon savings from a limited cash budget to a race against the clock round a fictitious office switching off electrical equipment.

The game can help pupils at Key Stages 3 & 4 Citizenship investigate issues surrounding sustainable development, using IT to experiment with alternative lifestyles, as well as assisting with their knowledge and understanding of environmental change and sustainable development (attainment target 4) in the geography curriculum. The geography component is particularly relevant to the targets at level 5, where pupils are expected to suggest explanations for the ways in which human activities cause changes to the environment and the different views people hold about them.