Development of environmental education program («yperatou» cards) for wildlife

Environmental Education is the education related to the environment, indicating the discovery of the environment as an instrument for more effective learning. Within the context of Environmental Education, contact with the environment contributes to increasing interest in environmental issues and the empowerment of taking action about them. The purpose of this project is to develop an Environmental Education program featuring bird species typical of Greece’s wild fauna, based on an old game with cards («yperatou»). This game as a method of Environmental Education is based on a certain environmental issue, facilitates learning, has rules and is entertaining. The end product of the game consists of 32 cards, in line with the original ¨yperatou¨ card game, depicting birds from the wildlife in Greece. There are 8 categories of cards each of which corresponds to a family of birds (the class is mentioned as well). Every category consists of four representative species of the family. Each card contains a photo of the bird. The features chosen to be compared with each other, within the game, are the length of the bird, its wingspan and its weight (male and female separately). For the realization of the material information was drawn from the bibliography relating to Environmental Εducation and wildlife and, finally, related photos were found on Google.