Game Education

Law of the Forest is the first board game in Hong Kong with the theme of Hong Kong forest ecology and biodiversity. Produced by professional environmental education team, you can learn about ecology while enjoying the game. Designed by local ecology artists, every detail on the cards is well-designed with high quality. It is suitable for people from teenagers to adults!

The school education activities themed with 《Law of the Forest》comprise of indoor board game, forest exploration and activity day. The activities centered around the theme and teaching approach of《Law of the Forest》. Through these activities, students will learn about local forest ecology, relationships between forest creatures and the threats to forests.

Funded by Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) Subventions for Biodiversity Education (2022). Secondary students were trained to be ecology board game ambassadors and equipped with butterfly or intertidal ecology knowledge, along with the skill of leading board games. After training, ambassadors held ecology board game learning activities for their fellow schoolmates to promote Hong Kong’s ecology and biodiversity through the means of game education.

The game booth introduced the joyful way of conducting environmental education to children. We designed two mini-games included Creature Cubes and Lizard’s Adventure. Also, we provided a workshop of Law of the Forest for children to experience our magnificent mother nature in Hong Kong.

For the sake of enhancing the interest of learning Hong Kong ecology, this programme made use of board game and outdoor education as the approach of learning and teaching. Moreover, the participants trained to be tutors and empowered to lead the learning activities for secondary school students, which raised the awareness of nature conservation as well as facilitated the development of environmental education in Hong Kong. Additionally, the programme initiated the training of talents and cross-fertilisation of expertise regarding board game and environmental education.

Through workshops, field trips, experts matching and board game design, we trained tertiary students to take the initiative to learn about local ecology and further study disciplines they are interested in. Subsequently, we empowered them to design board games which use biodiversity of Hong Kong as theme, as well as to lead the environmental education activity with their products.

For the sake of enhancing the learning motivation of students in outdoor, we designed a series of orienteering games including Granny’s Secret, A Day in Shui Hau, Guardians of Pui O. Through completing the tasks all over the map, the students enthusiastically obtain the knowledge of the ecology of Lantau.