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Age Level: 10+ Setting: Small group (2-4 players)Type: Board gameTopics: Land cover, natural resourcesEstimated Time: 30 minutes
Travel to different Landsat scenes and collect Earth resources then go to a factory to manufacture various products such as pencils, baseballs, and fish sticks.
Materials & Setup
Collect Materials: One playing piece (a small unique object) for each player, a paperclip, paper tack or pencil, and one six-sided die
Setup: Download and print game board. Download and print instructions file then cut out Raw Material tokens, Product cards, and the Disaster Spinner. Assemble spinner using the paper clip and paper tack.
Game Play
Each turn, a player rolls the die, moves that number of hexes, and collects ONE raw material token from the hex landed on.
To earn product cards, players must land on a factory hex and trade in the raw materials required for that product.
If a player rolls a 6, a disaster occurs. The player does NOT move their piece, but instead spins the Disaster Spinner to see what raw material is impacted.
Play continues until a player manufactures 12 points worth of products.
Landsat: Earth Resources Seen from Space
The 2020 Earth Science Week poster was created as a joint effort between NASA, AmericaView, and USGS and incorporates Landsat imagery to highlight the theme “Earth Materials in Our Lives”. The Earth Resources from Space poster displays stunning Landsat imagery for six different sources of Earth materials: evaporation ponds, mines and quarries, water, rangelands, croplands, and forests.
Poster Files
Poster Front (English)
Poster Back – Game Board (English)
Game Instructions & Pieces (English)
Poster Front (Spanish)
Poster Back – Game Board (Spanish)
Game Instructions (Spanish)
Related Resources
AmericaView
A nationwide, university-based, and state- implemented consortium that advances the widespread use of remote-sensing data and technology through education, outreach, and workforce development for the public and private sectors.
USGS EROS Earth as Art
A collection of satellite images that showcase the artistic and aesthetic beauty of Earth’s surface using combinations of visible and infrared light.
USGS Landsat
A central hub for all Landsat information from the U.S. Geological Survey including data tools, mission updates, and science highlights.
NASA’s Earth Observatory
An online source of images, stories, and discoveries about the environment, Earth systems, and climate that emerge from NASA research, including its satellite missions, in-the-field research, and models
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