Mould and Damp Awareness
Need
United Living property services team want to create an interactive and immersive learning experience about the dangers of mould and dampness, as well as methods to help prevent the spread of it inside their homes. The module was developed for with young children to educate current residents and their children whom are the residents of tomorrow.
Approach
In our Minecraft module the scene is set inside a home filled with mould which then leads into the Mould kingdom. Specific learning goals covered in the module include:
- To identify signs of mould, dampness, and condensation inside a virtual environment.
- To learn effective actions to prevent mould and dampness in homes.
- Recognize and describe the types of moisture in their homes.
- Tell a responsible adult when they see signs of damp and mould.
- Demonstrate and action their knowledge of effective prevention methods for to reduce moisture within their homes.
- To be aware that sustained exposure to mould and dampness could lead to health problems.
- Call to Action – you do right things to prevent mould and influence your family
Deliverables
We facilitated the design and delivery of tailored Modules to the specific requirements from the United Living stakeholders.
- Confirm the goals of the business and learning initiative that is being supported.
- Run children’s session to understand their current level of knowledge and get their ideas for an engaging game on the subject.
- Agree on the aims and objectives of the training module together with its potential benefits to the organisation and to the individual learners.
- Agree the critical success factors for the programme and the individual activities.
- Agree and design evaluation processes which will be used to gather evidence of impact and success.
- Storyboard and agree key learning goals.
- Design and build of Minecraft modules.
- Module will be developed and tested with children steering groups before development freeze and full game user acceptance testing
- Module refinement based on user acceptance testing feedback.
- Lesson plan and train the trainer guides.
Benefits
- Understanding of critical importance of damp & mould prevention
- Create awareness of work done by United Living
- Demonstrate efficacy and effectiveness of game base, EdTech learning.
- Innovative way for United Living to engage local communities.
- STEM subjects in school and engineering and science as possible further education option
- Housing industry as a possible future career choice