Survivor

Student Worksheet
There has been an explosion on your ship. Your ship is sinking! There is only one
lifeboat. There is a small, deserted island about 10 kilometers away but the ocean is
filled with sharks. You must choose who will go with you in the life boat to the
island. The people remaining alive on the ship are
No. Occupation Gender Age Positive Points Negative Points
1 !"# of a large
corporation
$ale % Hes a leader. Maybe hell be too
bossy.
& 'rofessional
wrestler
$ale &(
) *armer $ale +,
+ -urfer $ale &1
. 'olice officer $ale )/
, 0omemaker *emale ).
1 2urse $ale +0
( 3octor *emale ,0
/ !omedian $ale %
10 4ctress *emale &.
11 5nmarried,
pregnant teenager
*emale 11
1& 6awyer *emale )(
1) 7eligious leader $ale &/
Survivor
Teachers Instructions
-kills -peaking
-ystems *unctions 3iscussing, defending choices
8ocabulary 'ersonal characteristics
#ther Teamwork
7eaching !onsensus
There are a number of ways to use this scenario.
Alone-Pair-Group-Class
This is one taught to me by my T"*6 instructor.
9ive each student a worksheet. -tudents work alone and complete the chart in pencil. :t;s
important to insist that they do this before choosing who will go in the lifeboat. #therwise,
they;ll <ust start making choices and never will get to the characteristics of the individuals.
#ne way : do this is to not tell them how many people they will choose. =orking alone at
this point also gives them time to think, to develop their own rationale on which to base their
choices and gives them a position to defend.
-tudents work alone and choose six people to accompany them to the desert island.
-tudents then work in pairs and come up with a single list by consensus.
'airs of students then <oin into small groups and attempt to come up with a single list, again
by consensus.
"ach group then presents its choices and reasons to the class.
Thu!s "p # Thu!s $o%n
This is one way : used the scenario with a small class.
9ive each student a worksheet. -tudents work alone and complete the chart in pencil. :t;s
important to insist that they do this before choosing who will go in the lifeboat. #therwise,
they;ll <ust start making choices and never will get to the characteristics of the individuals.
#ne way : do this is to not tell them how many people they will choose. =orking alone at
this point also gives them time to think, to develop their own rationale on which to base their
choices and gives them a position to defend.
-tudents work alone and choose six people to accompany them to the desert island. The
survivors get a thumbs>up. The others, who will die, get thumbs>down.
#ne by one the teacher goes through the potential survivors. *or each possibility the teacher
gets the thumbs>up voters to move to one side of the room and the thumbs>down voters to the
other. "ach side then attempts to get those from the other side to <oin them. The teacher
makes sure that anyone who changes sides ad<usts their list of potential survivors accordingly
so the number they choose remains at six.