Lifeball

KEYSTAGE: 2-3

AGE RANGE: 10-14

SUBJECT: Citizenship & PSHE

LIFEBALL - A unique new game format for learning life skills. LIFEBALL is a team social learning game based on a ball machine similar to the national lottery. Instead of numbers however, the LIFEBALL machine throws out balls in eight different colours. Each colour pertains to a different area of social behaviour such as `thinking skills`, `forward planning`, `emotions` or `relationship` and presents players with a behavioural dilemma relating to that social skill.
Professionals using the game can also customise the content to only include dilemmas relating to certain contexts of behaviour such as `bullying`, `offending` or `race and diversity`. Each dilemma has three choices and the outcome of each choice has an effect on four `Life Indexes` - `health`, `wealth`, `relationships` and `self-esteem`. When any life index sinks to zero that player loses a turn to recover and the winner is the first player to get all 4 indexes to 10. Just like life of course, players also have to cope with random unforeseen events which also have an effect on their life indexes. For example `your girlfriend goes on holiday and chucks you for a bloke from Bognor - lose 2 self-esteem points but gain 1 wealth point`.
LIFEBALL contains 8 social skills area, 8 behavioural topic areas per skill(64 dilemmas in all) and 20 random events. All text content is spoken and included on CD in Adobe Acrobat format.

Key features

• A unique new game format
• Teaches important social and behavioural skills
• Based on the lottery ball machine
• 64 behavioural dilemmas
• All screen text read aloud


This product is Vista and Windows 7 compatible