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The Microgrid Mastermind game instructions offer a clear, step-by-step guide that helps players of all levels understand roles, rules, and strategies to successfully navigate and enjoy all six rounds of cooperative gameplay.
Use the Microgrid Masterminds Educational Guide to prepare your learners to play the game.
- Educational Guide (12.22 MB)
Microgrid Mastermind is a cooperative strategy board game where 1–6 players take on the roles of Grid Keepers working together to build and manage a resilient energy grid using real-world concepts like renewable energy, infrastructure planning, and resource balancing. Created by students at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and supported by the Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research (NCESR) and Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD), the game blends hands-on STEM learning with fast-paced, engaging gameplay.
This EPA-funded, standards-aligned unit presents students with a real-world challenge of sustainably using limited natural resources to produce food, fiber, and fuel for a growing human population.
Need a template for students to share out their noticings and wonderings? We've got you covered with our Husker Wonder Notice and Wonder template and Husker Wonder Slide Deck template.
The following lessons are provided to connect the Agpocalypse gameplay scenarios with broader learning objectives.
Looking for a flexible way to practice noticing and wondering with your middle school or high school students? Check out this collection of graphs, maps, and charts! Each highlights a FEWSS (food, energy, water, and societal systems) topic and can be used as a focal point for students' sense-making discussions. You can use these as a bell-ringer, anchoring or investigative phenomenon, exit ticket, etc. Additional resources (notice and wonder t-chart template and class slide deck template) are provided to help you and your students get started!
Farming is a balancing act. Are you ready to take on the challenge of maximizing production while using limited resources like land and water? Play AgPocalypse to test your skills!
Need a quick start guide before playing the AgPocalypse digital game? Watch the video tutorials below led by game developer, Chloe Lehnert, in which she introduces each of the scenarios (Irrigation, Grassfed Beef, and Life Cycle Analysis) and provides some useful tips.
This collection of high school lessons and units was created as part of the TASRSs program. The program provided an opportunity for Nebraska high school science teachers to collaborate with UNL STEM faculty and graduate students engaged in applied STEM research around agriculture and natural resources. The program goals included developing innovative high school science lessons based upon contemporary applied science, enhancing teachers’ disciplinary knowledge, and enhancing pedagogical knowledge of STEM faculty and graduate students.
Project A.C.R.E. is a team of faculty, staff, and students that develop research-based serious educational games to promote agroecosystem literacy, enhance understanding of sustainability, and increase awareness of STEM careers relevant to agroecosystems.