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| "After trialing your Bioviva game with my year five class, I have become very impressed with educational worth of Bioviva. I have found it a very valuable tool in teaching my environment unit in class and my students are always excited to use the game." - A primary school teacher in NSW | "...the 14-year old, who does not normally like board games said it was “not boring like other board games” " | |
| From a group of Year 12 students - "awesome" "cool", "fantastic" and "learnt more in one hour than in the whole year!" | "If we want people to change their attitudes and behaviour in relation to the environment, they need to understand more - Bioviva achieves this in a fun and relaxed way." - Executive Director, Keep Australia Beautiful Council (Vic). | |
| "Peoples of the Planet is a family trivia game about world cultures. .. As with all Bioviva games, the questions are educational and fun and have been written with today's kids in mind. The topics are always interesting and the games never get bogged down in their won 'worthiness' (often a problem with educational games)." - a review | "Bioviva is a welcome resource and would be of benefit to any teacher of environmental studies form upper primary top secondary." - A primary teacher |
"Worthy, stimulating, educational board games are having a tough time with the computer generation. Perhaps part of the problem is that adults expect children to play such board games amongst themselves. That is just not going to happen. Recommendations for the following games are based on the understanding that they are FAMILY games and will be loads of fun when parents are involved, in both interpreting the instructions ands playing the game, but are useless diversions for a bunch of kids left to entertain themselves.
And before you baulk at the price of a good family game and grumble about only every playing it once or twice, consider this: if four people sit down and play a $60 game just once, it averages $15 per head for (dare I say) high quality time spent together away from solitary computer games and the media.
No travelling, no entrance fees and no parking. Good games do get played more than once, or get passed on to other families. Everyone wins. $60 is starting to look cheap!
Bioviva is a really well thought out Canadian game that is fun, original and instructive. Every turn involves every player (one of the criteria for a good game.) As a question is asked on living things, points are awarded via a card that incorporates suggestions on improving our environment. Players move around a world map divided into natural regions of our planet (e.g. tundra, polar, etc) so its undoubtable educational. The thing that sets this game apart is the questions. There are heaps of them,. and they're entertaining, surprising and good humoured - with comprehensive answers and additional titbits. Made from recycled materials (of course) with wooden playing pieces and not a drop of plastic anywhere, this is a good-looking game too."
Reprinted from Melbourne's Child – November 2000 Reviewer – Carol Witt
If
you'd like to combine travel, the environment and a bit of education at the same
time, we have a cool game for you!
"There's
a new board game with a weird name that's great fun to play.
It's called 'Bioviva' (the funny and fascinating game about Nature), and
you throw dice to travel the globe, through different climate zones.
On the way, you answer pretty hard but interesting questions about the
natural world, You also learn about helping the environment by earning (or
losing) Eco Points.
This is a good game for schools or large families when it's wet outside.
It's suitable for aged eight and up - younger kids might not understand
all the questions.
The questions include natural science and history subjects, with some
quite bizarre topics.
They are given in either true or false, or multiple choice format, with a
good explanation about the
correct answer that you can read out.
For example, 'What was found inside a hailstone that fell in the state of
Mississippi in the US in 1894?'
bird
turtle
a pair of scissors
The correct answer is a turtle! Apparently, it was picked up by a strong rising air current!
‘Bioviva’ was developed in France and has won many awards and it gets my vote, too."
Reprinted from Burke’s BackYard Magazine – November 1999 Reviewer – Rowan Taylor (aged 10)
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Ecological board game you can recycle.
“My
participants, aged 11, 13 and 14 played this game twice of their own volition
before I joined them. They liked it. The 10-year old found it educational and
fun, the 13-year old found it enjoyable and the 14-year old, who does not
normally like board games said it was “not boring like other board games”.
I think the “hook” here for the younger player was the unpredictability of the three-choice questions. Sometimes you could arrive at an answer by a process of elimination and other times you could take a stab and be right.”
Reprinted from The Canberra Times - 13th December 1999. Reviewer - Barry Rowlings
Board game a welcome resource
“Bioviva is a board game that has the remarkable record of winning 11 first prizes in 11 international competitions, including 'best new trivia game' by the US Games Magazine.
Newsmonth asked Brian McCallum, Teacher at Holy Cross Primary in Kincumber to give it a go in the classroom. Here's his feedback.
The game was trialed by students of mixed ability from Year Six. It was immediately apparent that a good reading standard is essential to successfully participate in the game.
The children found the instructions straight forward and had little trouble understanding the game. Once set up the children found Bioviva challenging and enjoyable, The questions are broad ranging and difficult.
From a teacher's view point this game is easily adapted to a whole class use by forming teams. I feel this is a better way to use the game as it involves the children in group decision making and enhance the learning experience. It also allows the teacher to adopt the role of quizmaster, giving many teaching opportunities.
The game could be made more classroom friendly by categorising the question cards to allow teachers to focused specifically on areas of environmental education.
Bioviva is a welcome resource and would be of benefit to any teacher of environmental studies form upper primary top secondary.”
Reprinted from NewsMonth - Journal of NSW/ACT IEU - December 1999
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