Welcome Ku-ring-gai survivors!

The year is 2021… Your Geography teacher has organised an excursion to

Norway, so that you can develop a better understanding of improvements in
Human Wellbeing. But alas! Your plane crashes in the middle of a desert island
and your amazing Geography teacher, Miss Bartz is nowhere to be found… To
make a bad day worse, there is nothing of use to salvage. You have no idea
where the island is on a map and no idea when, or if, you will be rescued. It is
your task to establish a society to govern yourselves and survive. You and your
classmates are starting to realise you’re truly on your own…

You will be working to come up with the best recipe for surviving the plane
wreck!

Work together to create the best-case scenario for survival, safety and happiness.

(Note: You will need someone to take note of each task in their workbook.
Also, remember, this is a fun activity! Be civil and make sure you’re trying to
work together.)

Step 1: Priorities

Work together to identify the five most important tasks and rank them accordingly
(1 is most important).

 Discuss what are priorities for you right now!

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Step 2: Leadership

As you well know, a society cannot be created without a leader. Your next
important task is to establish leadership. What values does your society prefer?
Choose 3 and rank them, then choose a leader among you that will suitably fill this
role. (What will you call him/her?)
 Integrity
 Intelligence
 Physical Strength
 Tenacity
 Ambition
 Assertiveness
 Charisma
 Friendliness

Step 3: Assign Responsibilities

Remember, you have 33 people who need jobs assigned to them.

A person can only do ONE job.
 Establish 1 team leader for each of the 5 tasks from Step 1, and then assign
them a team of student helpers. Your assigned totals should equal 33.

From here, figure out in your teams:

a. The working hours of each individual.
b. What does their job description exactly involve?
c. How well do you anticipate them being able to achieve success in each goal in a
day, a week, then a month? Calculate this.

Step 4: Law & Order

What is a society without rules? Establish a system of government or a chain of

command. Then draw up your leadership chart.
 Create 7-10 rules/laws that you and your fellow survivors will have to follow.
Step 5: Consequences!!

So, if some of you, or those you are leading break any of your rules, how will you
ensure that there are consequences or ‘punishments’?

Do you want others to obey out of fear? How does this work?

 Assign a punishment to each rule. However, the leader is the one with the
final say on what punishments will go ahead…

Step 5: More than just survival

Survival requires not only physical but emotional and spiritual survival as well!
What things will you do as a group to make sure that all young people remain
hopeful, productive and in harmony?

 List and explain 2-3 things that you will do.

 Will you need to assign someone to be in charge of these things on top of
the job that’s been assigned to them? Could this impact their ability to do
their job well?

Step 7: Is there Anything Else?

Okay, so you know you will be on this island with all these people for weeks…
possibly months before being rescued.
 What else do you think needs to be created or established? These could be
for safety, comfort, survival, health, interests, etc.
 Who’s in charge of these new structures?

Now you can have volunteers make up teams or committees to add even more
dimension to your new civilization. But the previous question remains… could this
new assignment impact your settlement’s ability to complete tasks?

OH NO!!! You’ve been doing great for a month… then a storm hits your
island!
(PLEASE NOTE: If you’re injured in this round, you have lost a limb and can now only
work at a limited capacity. You must show this for the remainder of the lesson (e.g. hop
or hold a hand behind your back)… But hey, at least you know who to blame for that.)
Did you have enough people gathering food? You should have figured this
out in Step 3. Let’s see how hard this storm has hit your supplies.
You need to escape the storm… did you assign someone to build shelter? Plus,
you need food to survive… how much did you stockpile? If you haven’t built
shelter, you have lost any food you have stockpiled and at least 2 people are
injured. But wait, there’s more…
 If you had 0-5 people finding food; 5 people are injured.
 If you had 5-9 people finding food; 3 people are injured.
 If you had 10-15 people finding food; 1 person is injured.
 If you had 15 or more people finding food; nobody is injured.
Look to your glorious leader, he may not have been a wise choice…
 Did you choose Ambition, Assertiveness, Friendliness, Physical Strength or
Tenacity as your primary trait without Intelligence as your second or thirds?
If so, 5 people were injured from poor leadership.
 If you had Intelligence as a 2nd or 3rd, then 4 people are injured.
 Did you choose Charisma or Integrity as your #1 choice and not have
Intelligence as your 2nd or 3rd? If so, 3 more people are injured.
 If you had Intelligence as a 2nd or 3rd trait, then 2 people are injured.
 Did you choose Intelligence and not have Integrity or Charisma as your 2nd
or 3rd choice? If so, 2 people are injured.
 If you had Charisma or Integrity as a 2nd or 3rd trait then 1 person is injured.
C'mon, nobody is perfect.

Step 8: Add up your points!!

Was someone assigned to get water? +10pts If not, -10pts.
Did one of your rules mention respecting leadership? +10pts If not, -10pts.
Was one of your consequences 'isolation'? +5pts
Did one of your consequences involve murder? -10pts
Do you have organized, mandatory physical activity? +10pts. If not, -10pts
Do you have organized, creative activities? +5pts
Do you have organized musical time? +5pts
Do you have mandatory spiritual or prayer time? +10pts If not, -10pts
Do you have organized, mandatory community connection times?
+15pts If not, -15pts

Step 9: Wait? Don't We Get Rescued?

Did you assign the task of signaling for help?

If yes, a plane spots your signal and you are rescued! +20 pts
If no, you are stranded on the island... forever! -20 pts

Congratulations!

You have finished the Ku-ring-gai Survivor.

Add up your points, and persons surviving without injury…

If you scored between 50-100+, you’ve managed to create a society with a

positive human wellbeing score. Your people are mostly happy, healthy and
able to thrive. (I mean, most of them are. But who cares about the few?)

If you’ve scored under 50, well… Let’s just say, you might have a mutiny on
your hands… And everyone’s looking pretty hungry…