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ECO - CHARADES
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What is Charades?
Charades is a game of pantomimes: you have to "act out" a
phrase without speaking, while the other members of your
team try to guess what the phrase is. The objective is for
your team to guess the phrase as quickly as possible.
Note: You can use sounds but strictly no words.
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Preparation:
Select a neutral timekeeper, or pick members from each team to
take turns. Agree on how many rounds to play. Review the
gestures and hand signals and invent any others you deem
appropriate.
You will need:
- a stopwatch or other timing device
- a notepad and pencil for scorekeeping or an extremely
good memory!!
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To Play:
Each round of the game proceeds as follows:
A player from Team A reviews the word on the screen, the timekeeper for
team B notes the time and tells the player to start. Team A then has two
minutes to guess the phrase. If they figure it out, the timekeeper records how
long it took. If they do not figure it out in two minutes, the timekeeper
announces that the time is up, and records a time of two minutes.
Next, Team B reviews the word on the screen , and the play proceeds as
above.
Normally the game continues until every player has had a chance to "act
out" a phrase. The score for each team is the total time that the team needed
for all of the rounds. The team with the smallest score wins the game.
There are 30 words to act out!
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Gestures
To act out a phrase, one usually starts by indicating what category the
phrase is in, and how many words are in the phrase. From then on, the
usual procedure is to act out the words one at a time (although not
necessarily in the order that they appear in the phrase). In some cases,
however, it may make more sense to try to act out the "entire concept" of
the phrase at once.
To Indicate Categories:
Book title - Unfold your hands as if they were a book.
Movie title - Pretend to crank an old-fashioned movie camera.
Song title - Pretend to sing.
Famous Person – Stroke your chin and pout like a model.
Quote or Phrase - Make quotation marks in the air with your fingers.
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To Indicate Other Things:
Number of words in the title - Hold up the number of fingers.
Which word you're working on - Hold up the number of fingers again.
Number of syllables in the word - Lay the number of fingers on your arm.
Which syllable you're working on - Lay the number of fingers on your arm
again.
Length of word - Make a "little" or "big" sign as if you were measuring a fish.
"On the nose" (i.e., someone has made a correct guess): point at your nose
with one hand, while pointing at the person with your other hand.
"Sounds like" - Cup one hand behind an ear
"Plural" - link your little fingers.
A letter of the alphabet - move your hand in a chopping motion toward your
arm (near the top of your forearm if the letter is near the beginning of the
alphabet, and near the bottom of your arm if the letter is near the end of the
alphabet).
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Renewable Energy
Capable of being renewed. (of energy or its
source) Not permanently depleted when used.
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Global Warming
The gradual increase in the overall temperature of the
earth's atmosphere due to the greenhouse effect caused
by
increased
levels
of
carbon
dioxide,
chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants.
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Slow Cooker
A form of slow cooking. A cotton bag
filled with polystyrene balls to retain
heat. You place your pot inside, leave it
for
15 minutes. The food cooks slowly and
retains all nutrients within the food.
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Climate Change
Long-term, significant change in the climate of an
area or of the earth, usually seen as resulting from
human activity. Often used as a synonym for global
warming.
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Boiling Point
A book written by Leonie Joubert about the
impact on communities as the climate is
changing in South Africa.
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Worm Bin
Vermicompost is the product or process of composting
utilizing various species of worms creating the
heterogeneous mixture of decomposing vegetable or
food waste, bedding materials, and pure vermicast
produced during the course of normal vermiculture
operations.
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Carbon Footprint
The amount of carbon dioxide emitted due to
the the consumption of fossil fuels by a
particular person, group, etc.
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Ozone Layer
A layer in the earth's stratosphere at an
altitude of about 10 km (6.2 miles) containing
a high concentration of ozone, which absorbs
most of the ultraviolet radiation reaching the
earth from the sun.
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11th Hour
The 11th Hour is a 2007 feature film documentary,
created, produced and narrated by Leonardo
DiCaprio, on the state of the natural environment.
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Vegetarian
A person who does not eat meat or fish.
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Greenwashing
Disinformation disseminated by an organization
so as to present an environmentally responsible
public image.
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Tread Lightly
Phrase used by Project 90 by 2030 to describe
cutting carbon.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
Actor come Politician. He is currently the governor of
California and has focussed on reducing the his
states' carbon emissions. On September 27, 2006
Schwarzenegger signed a bill creating the nation's
first cap on greenhouse gas emissions
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Fossil Fuels
A natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the
geological past from the remains of living
organisms.
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Earth Song
A song written and composed by Michael
Jackson on the 1995 HIStory album.
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Consumerism
Consumerism a social and economic order that's
based on the systematic creation and fostering of
a desire to purchase commodity goods in ever
greater amounts.
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Solar Water Heater
A device attached to the roof of a house that
uses the sun's energy to heat up water.
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Electric Car
A form of transport that uses on electricity not
petrol. One of the first electric cars date back to
1844.
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Recycling
To convert waste into reusable material.
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Carbon Dioxide
A colorless, odorless gas produced by burning
carbon and organic compounds and by
respiration. It is naturally present in air (about
0.03 percent) and is absorbed by plants in
photosynthesis.
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Methane Gas
A colorless, odorless flammable gas that is the
main constituent of natural gas. It is the
simplest member of the alkane series of
hydrocarbons.
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Carbon Trading
It is one of the ways countries can meet their
obligations under the Kyoto Protocol to reduce
carbon emissions in an attempt to mitigate global
warming.
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Food security
Food security refers to the availability of food and one's
access to it. A household is considered food secure
when its occupants do not live in hunger or fear or
starvation.
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Hydro Power
Hydropower, hydraulic power or water power is
power that is derived from the force or energy of
moving water, which may be harnessed for useful
purposes.
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Flood
An overflowing of a large amount of water beyond
its normal confines, esp. over what is normally dry
land
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Home
A 2009 documentary movie by Yann Arthus
Bertrand. It shows the diversity of life on Earth
and how humanity is threatening the ecological
balance of the planet.
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Tipping Point
A climate tipping point is a point when global
climate changes from one stable state to another
stable state, in a similar manner to a wine glass
tipping over. After the tipping point has been
passed, a transition to a new state occurs.
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Carbon Sink
A carbon sink is a natural or manmade reservoir
that accumulates and stores some carboncontaining chemical compound for an indefinite
period.
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An Inconvenient Truth
Documentary movie about former United States
Vice President Al Gore and his work to educate
citizens about global warming.
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Landfill
A landfill, also known as a dump or rubbish dump
(and historically as a midden), is a site for the
disposal of waste materials by burial and is the
oldest form of waste treatment.
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You’ve completed all 30 words!
Thank you for playing Eco-Charades.
Maybe you can think of your own words the
next time you play?
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