National Geographic Education
Giant Pandas Into the Wild
Explore panda conservation by designing ideal mountain habitats in this educational interactive game.
Explore panda conservation by designing ideal mountain habitats in this educational interactive game.
The game’s goal is to help pandas learn important survival and social skills and prepare them for successful release into the wild. The game walks kids through some key scientific considerations, including geographic location, availability of resources, cost, natural history of panda bears, and environmental and community impacts on each location.
While success means releasing as many endangered pandas as you can, the gameplay is designed to make this task more challenging as the number of pandas in the habitat rises.
As the science changes, so too can the game. A back-end JSON system allows for game adjustments, and controls a panda “happiness” meter — a conservation success measuring tool that calculates how students are best fulfilling panda needs.
