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A 90-minute, 4-round basic Express simulation for Spanish vocational training (Formacion Profesional), module 0742 Sistemas auxiliares del motor…
About this simulation
A 90-minute, 4-round basic Express simulation for Spanish vocational training (Formacion Profesional), module 0792 Actividades de uso publico of the Tecnico Superior en Educacion y Control Ambiental (Real Decreto 384/2011). The learner is Irene Turmo, the newly qualified public-use technician of a fictional natural park of gorges, river pools and vulture cliffs, through 2027.
Four situations set the year's course: the winter, and how many people the famous canyon trail takes (a carrying capacity with booking on the peak days, not a doubled car park and more promotion, not a closure) and which routes the park offers (three alternative routes signposted from the visitor centre, not a paved trail or an app); Easter, and how the visit is paid for (a paid car park on the peak days and a free shuttle, not free buses every day or an entry ticket) and who receives the visitors (informer-educators with the volunteers coordinated, not a security company or volunteers alone); the summer peak, and what is done on the peak days (the road closed when the car park is full, the shuttle and a capacity at the river pool) and what the park offers (an education programme tied to its values, not a festival in the meadow); and the autumn, and how a trail-race request is answered (processed under the park's use-and-management plan, the PRUG, outside its reserve zone) and how the year is accounted (a public-use account with the 2028 plan).
One critical error caps the round: the race authorised through the reserve zone without the report the plan requires. Some mistakes look fine on the day they are made and come back later through the trails, the habitats and the staff: the canyon promoted for more visitors, volunteers alone, the verges and the crowded pool tolerated. KPIs: visits received, net public-use cost, ecological impact and visitor complaints.
Lesson: more visitors is not always better, the impact counts too. Spanish primary, English parity. Fictional park, village and people; real curriculum and law cited.
What participants learn
After the session, participants will be able to:
- Evaluate how many visitors the busiest trail can take from its width, slope, erosion and nests, and manage the visits by the impact they leave, not by their number alone
- Apply alternative routes that spread the visits and a price on the car park on the peak days with a free shuttle, against an entry ticket for everyone or free buses every day
- Analyze who receives the visitors and how the peak days are planned: informer-educators who coordinate the volunteers, the road closed when the car park is full, the shuttle and a capacity at the river pool
- Apply an interpretation and environmental-education programme tied to the park's values as a tool of visitor management
- Evaluate an event request under the park's use-and-management plan, never through the reserve zone without the report it requires, and the public-use account that sets next year's plan
Prerequisites
- Weighted average and cost per unit of time
- Basic ideas of protected areas: zoning, public use and interpretation
Who it is for
An introductory simulation that assumes no prior knowledge of the subject, designed for undergraduate courses. It also works in vocational and high-school programmes and in onboarding sessions.
How a session runs
- The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
- Participants play 4 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results. The first round opens with: lunes 11 de enero, 8:00: el aforo y las rutas.
- The simulation can be run in English, Español.
- The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.