Island Survival

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Island Survival

• Eric Frangenheim
• Exercising your Thinking and Survival Skills

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What is it about?
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Lesson Goals

• Imagination and Creative Writing
• Team Work and Problem Solving
• Use of Thinking Tools
• Judging yourself and others
• Decision-making
• Having FUN

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Class set-up

• Teams of 4 students
• One table per team
• Group Roles
• Scribe
• White Hat Thinker What are all the facts
• Yellow Hat Thinker Why this is a good idea
• Black Hat Thinker Why this is a poor idea
• Green Hat Thinker What are the new ideas

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World War Two 1939-45

• Allied Side
• UK, Commonwealth countries (Cricket, Rugby
  Union), France, USA, USSR
• Axis Side
• Germany, Italy and Japan

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Evacuation
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From Venezuela to Florida
Danger Below
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Torpedo !!!!
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Abandon Ship

• The facts
• 24 x 13 year olds
• Captain mortally wounded
• Crew all killed
• 5 minutes to get to life boats
• Many islands nearby
• Grab all survival materials you can collect

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How?

• Silent Round Robin Strategy
• Teams of 5
• One sheet of paper per student
• Multiple answers
• Swap read add ideas no repeats

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Choosing your valuable item

• HOW?
• Teams of 4-5, but discuss and decide in pairs
• Strategy- Tournament Prioritiser

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Exciting Writing

• HOW?
• Y Chart
• What does it
• Look Like
• Sound Like
• Feel Like

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Abandon Ship to The Landing

• Abandon Ship
• Sea Trip in the Lifeboats
• Land!!!

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Exciting Writing

• HOW?
• Use the materials from your Y chart
• 3 paragraphs

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Taking Stock of the Island

• Lush tropical island
• Mountain and plains
• Clean water in rivers
• Bamboo
• Coral Reefs
• Coconut trees and Bananas

• Foot marks
• Growling noises from forest
• Two human skeletons
• Smoke from the mountain
• Necklace

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HOW? SWOT Analysis
Strengths Weaknesses
Opportunities Threats
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Establish your Fort

• How?
• Use your SWOT Analysis
• You may add 4 other features to your map (eg
  fresh water lake)
• Decide where to place it on your map

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Design your Community

• Use large sheets of paper and textas
• In your plans, include, with labels
• Fortifications
• Housing
• Water collection and storage
• Food garden
• Dimensions in metres
• Defensive apparatus from local and imported
  resources
• How? Six Thinking Hats, Concept maps and CAF

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What do you think of your plan?

• How?

Yellow Hat Black Hat Green Hat
Near Water Too close to trees Clear some trees Could we make a lookout?
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Peer Assessment of Community Plans

• How?
• Swap plans and one Explainer with another team
• 10 minutes to examine, analyse and judge
• Use 3 hats

Yellow Black Green

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Designing a set of Island Community Rules part 1

• Purpose of rules
• Daily living and peaceful co-existence, avoid
  conflict, survival, respect for environment
• How?
• Step 1. Use a Noisy Round Robin to list all
  societys problems today in Australia and
  elsewhere
• Step 2. Categorise and Classify these problems
• Step 3- List these on Whiteboard

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Designing a set of Island Community Rules step 2

• How?
• Use data on white board
• Strategy 14PCR
• 1 Each member writes own rules (Shhhhh!)
• 4 Share your ideas in turn
• P Get your best 10 rules on a large sheet
• C Circle room to get better ideas
• R Return and refine then Share

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Which is the best set of rules?

• How?
• Strategy Decision Making Matrix
• Each team will be given two sets of rules to
  judge
• Develop factors by which to judge these sets of
  rules, eg, Teamwork, Fairness, Protecting
  Environment (what else?)

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Creating a story about survival on the island

• How?
• Strategy Random Input