Game narrative: In the future, humans have been replaced by robots to do factory work. The game takes place in a nuclear power station. The factory's crew is made only of robots. The robot commander accidentally ran out of power and no one else knows how to control the crew. We need your help! Learn how to interact with robots and give them clear orders to make sure the factory's crew don't do mistakes and to avoid ecological disaster.

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Because they didn't receive the right orders, all the robots are mixed up. The robot commander used a board game object 1 to give instructions to the robots. Refer to the board used to bring each robot back to its right place.

Role of the teacher and game organisation: The teacher draws two tables on the ground with the same number of cells as the ones on the board game object 1. The tables' size can be reduced according to the number of players. Tips; use floor tiles as cells! Before the game starts, the teacher uses the pawns game object 2 to create a figure on the board game object 1. According to the level of difficulty (described below), the teacher can use the pawns of sheet 1 or sheet 2.

At the beginning of the game, the teacher chooses two-game leaders. The game leaders change each round.

Game rules: Two players are the game leaders, one for each team. The game leaders give instructions to the robots to reproduce a figure that the teachers have prepositioned on board game object 1. The other players are the robots. They are called by their own names.

To win the game, a game leader needs to place the robots correctly on the table (on the ground) to match the figure on the board game object 1, by giving orders to the robots to place them in the right cells. An order should be made as follows: e.g. Name of the Robot (e.g. Martin) - move 3 cells left; Name of the Robot (e.g. Emma) - move 2 cells forward; Name of the Robot (e.g. Victor) – Put your hands on the cell on your left.

When a game leader decides that the figure is reproduced, the game ends for both teams. The teacher compares the positions of the robots of each team with the board game and reckons which team has successfully completed the task.

The activity is followed by a discussion over strategies each team leader used to give orders. In the next round, teams may reconsider these strategies to implement just learnt good practices. As a final step, children may discuss together how their physical activity could contribute also to energy production to activate a computer, for example. Digital devices and applications may be used to record the level of energy produced or teachers may decide to stay unplugged and demonstrate energy production through movement by lighting a hand-powered torch or a dynamo of a bike.

Additional activity may be having a discussion about a healthy lifestyle and the importance of movement. To add challenge, let's look at difficulty levels 2 and 3 described on the next page.