Island Adventure

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Island Adventure
Your boat is sinking! There is a desert island nearby. You can swim there, but you can only
take a small bag with you. Choose four items to help you survive on the island.
Name the four items and explain why you chose each one.
Item 1: ___________________________________________________________________
Reason: __________________________________________________________________
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Item 2: ___________________________________________________________________
Reason: __________________________________________________________________
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Item 3: ___________________________________________________________________
Reason: __________________________________________________________________
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Item 4: ___________________________________________________________________
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Reason: __________________________________________________________________
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Island Adventure
2. The island is great. There are many fruits

1. The island is inhabited by nomadic tribes and wild animals to eat. You even found a
of hunter gatherers. Some of the tribes are treasure chest full of gold. However, you
extremely dangerous cannibals, but some were spotted with the chest by a bunch of
tribes are quite friendly. pirates and now they are coming after you
and the treasure.
3. The island is devoid of dangerous

animals, but there is a very strong storm 4. The island is home to a tribe of children,
every eight hours that destroys any not older than eight years old, who have
structures and leaves everything soaking been shipwrecked here for over a year.
wet.
5. Remember the movie King Kong? Well,

6. The island is full of zombies, who only
you are on that island. Not only do you have
come out at night. They will definitely eat you
to survive but you have to avoid King Kong,
if they see you, but they are afraid of water.
dinosaurs and very large flying insects!
7. The island is actually quite nice. However,

8. The island is filled with highly evolved
it’s only 50 centimeters above sea level, and
communicating apes, who dominate
it is sinking at the rate of one centimeter a
everything. They are very grumpy apes and
day. You don’t have long until the whole
they don’t like visitors.
island is going to be underwater.
9. Welcome to snake island. This island is

10. The island is warm during the day.
covered in poisonous snakes. They are
However, at night the temperature on the
everywhere. The only place which is safe is
island drops to -30 degrees Celsius and
the beach. However, at high tide the beach
everything freezes.
disappears.

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Island Adventure
In this creative teaching activity, students use their critical thinking and problem solving skills
to survive being stranded on a desert island.
Before class, make one copy of the worksheet for each student. Also, prepare a dice and
make one copy of the cards and cut as indicated.
Procedure
Set the scene by drawing a boat on the board. Ask the students to name the boat and to
suggest what they are doing on the boat.
Then draw lightning on the board. Explain that the boat has been hit by a storm and has
started taking on water.
Now, divide the students into groups of three and hand out a copy of the worksheet to each
student.
Tell the students that there is a desert island nearby and that the students must choose four
items from the worksheet to take with them to the island. The students then write about their
choice of items and their reasons for choosing them.
When the students have finished writing, ask each group to explain their choices to the
class.
Then tell the class that they are going to find out what challenge they face on the island by
picking a card.
Each group picks a card and makes a plan of what they will do to survive on the island, and
how the four items they brought will help them.
The groups then present their plans to the class. You assess each group's chances of
survival according to their plan and how risky their ideas are. Award each group a score
between zero and three.
After each group has presented, they roll a dice and the awarded points are combined with
the number on the dice.
Groups need to score four or more to survive, and more than six to thrive on the island.
Depending on the score, you make up the end of each group's tale.
For example, a group with a score of four may barely survive, e.g. they may get their arms
eaten by a gorilla or lose some fingers to frost bite, etc. A score of six would mean
everything happened as the group planned and five would be somewhere in between.

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2. The island is great. There are many fruits

3. The island is devoid of dangerous

5. Remember the movie King Kong? Well,

7. The island is actually quite nice. However,

9. Welcome to snake island. This island is

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