
GAMES FOR STUDENTS
Empowering
youth and schools to take action.
youth and schools to take action.
Games
The Sustainability Department offers fun games that test your waste reduction knowledge and teach you how to protect the environment.
Online and Board Games
Email us at sustainability@smcgov.org to get any of the board games below to play at school or at home!
Interactive Carts Game (Online at RethinkWaste.org)
Test your knowledge of which materials go in your blue recycling, green compost, and black garbage carts in the RethinkWaste service area.
The 4R’s (Board Game)
Make decisions about waste reduction and the waste management system in order to move through the winding pathway from start to finish.
Where Does it Come From and Go? (Board Game)
In this graphic organizer game, fill in the spaces by determining what natural resource a waste item is made from and where it goes when it’s time to let it go!

Pathway of Stuff (Board Game)
Follow the pathways of garbage, recyclables, organics, and reusable stuff after they get picked up and moved from our homes, schools, parks, and businesses.

Game of Floods (Board Game)
Developed by the County of Marin, the Game of Floods is an educational game on sea level rise adaptation.
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