Play Interactive Games
Learning about issues like reproductive health, gender equality and population can be fun! Try our selection of educational games and quizzes – test your knowledge and find out fascinating facts!
Breakaway Game
Produced by Emergent Media Center and Population Media Center, with support of UNFPA, «Breakaway» is a game that offers youth the chance to discover how to become a champion. Through the game, the player encounters real life situations that resonate with a teen’s experience such as peer pressure, competition, collaboration, teamwork, bullying and negative gender stereotypes. Breakaway gives the player choices that allow them to make decisions, face consequences, reflect, and practice behaviors in a game and story format.
Available in English, Spanish and French
Play here: http://www.breakawaygame.com
MTV “ME” Game
Produced with the support of Y-Peer (the Youth Peer Education Network), this game formed part of an on-line / on-air awareness campaign championed by the MTV Staying Alive Foundation aimed at engaging a youth audience on the important issues they face growing up. Sexual health, STIs, drink and drug abuse, bullying and many other social topics are covered with humor ensuring the experience is an entertaining one.
Available in English
Play here: http://staying-alive.org/mtvme/game/
UNESCO “Fast Car” Game
Travelling Safely around the World — The game aims to provide young people with accurate and reliable information about HIV/AIDS, intending to educate and entertain as well as promoting healthy behavior. In this game, the player can race on circuits on five continents, and virtually visit some of the UNESCO World Heritage sites. It also presents images of sites and interesting facts about them as players race by.
Available in English and Russian
Population Quizzes and Games
A great selection of population-related Quizzes and Games from the INED – French National Institute for Demographic Studies.
Available in English and French
The Urban Fact Game
A creative, colorful, and interactive on-line quiz produced by UN Cyberschoolbus. What do you know about cities and population? Find out.
Available in English
Play here: http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/habitat/factgame/index.html
Health Game
An interactive and entertaining way to learn about your health, causes and cures for diseases and interesting facts about global health issues. A fun quiz supplied together with Health Teaching Unit.
Available in English
Play here: http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/special/health/quiz/index.html
