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The North America Association for Environmental Eduacation (NAAEE) anticipates that environmental awareness education will can  cultivate knowledge, values, commitment, and skills required that will ensure to protect the protection of  the environment and will  make new behavior behavioral  patterns towards toward  the domain. Dissimilar to developing countries, where kids below 11 years old have shown little to no  awareness of environmental issues, kids in wester societies western locations  like the U.K. have shown care  prior to environmental awareness \cite{castellano2001relationship} \cite{zualkernan2009role}. In \citet{zualkernan2009role}'s study, They design, implement and evaluate a role-playing game to that can  teach children with ages  8-12 years oldchildren  regarding environmental awareness. The game involves problems on  water pollution, desertification and shortage of non-renewable resources problems. resources.  The player will determine each problem by picturing its consequences and by cooperating with other non-playing characters (NPCs) that have struggled because of these problems. The game consist consists  of three stages where each stage is based on a story that is common to a an  environmental problem. The first stage is called the cave and it is based on a story about water pollution. The player will look forthe  other players who have  suffered from water pollution and will then  fight for with  the creaturesor people  that is responsible for the polluted water. problem.  The second stage of the game is called named  axioms and it is based on a story about desertification. The player will interact with other players that who  shares their story about desertification. The player is guided by a falcon to help that helps  the player look forthe seed for planting  different kinds of plants plant  and trees tree seeds that can be used  for planting which will be planted in  the deserted arena. The third stage is called Blottwood village. It is based on the story ofthe shortage of  non-renewable resources. resources shortage.  In this stage,after figuring out the problem of the shortage of resources,  the player founds out that a creature is stealing the villagers village's  resources. The player will  have to defend the village from the creature so that the shortage of resources problem  will be lessen for the villagers solved  \cite{zualkernan2009role}.