Survivor: Island _________ Challenge #1

Building a Home Away from Home

Objective: You and your tribe/group will have 55 minutes to come up with the best solution to
the following problem:

Design the structures you will need for shelter, cooking, storage, sanitation, and any other
needs you expect to have. Your structures need to be able to sustain your group for at
least several months, with allowances for changing weather conditions.

You are to produce:

 a description in text and illustrations of what you would build
 an explanation of what materials you would use, how you would find them, and how you
would put them together
 a rationale for your choices and designs

** Please note:
 You will be assessed on how well you use the natural resources and the recovered items.
 You will be assessed on the feasibility of your plans and designs.
 When your time is up, you must turn in your plan to the teacher on paper, as is.
 You will be scored only on the written plans and illustrations you turn in
**Points will be awarded for this task (e.g. highest score = 6 pts; lowest score = 1 pt)

Survivor Problem #1 – Marking Criteria

A score of 1-3 will indicate the group did not know what natural resources were available, could
not make good use of their materials, and/or designed structures that would not work.
Incomplete or poorly explained plans should receive a low score.

A mid-range score (4-7) will indicate the group had a reasonably good plan, but some parts of it
were impractical or incomplete.

A score of 8-10 will indicate a group knew what material they had, used them well, and created
systems and structures that would sustain them for an extended period of time.
The group should be able to convince you that their designs would work.

Group ________________________

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Comments:
You have recovered one carry-on bag, containing the following items:

۰ 2 20-ounce bottles of water ۰ a plastic comb and brush

۰ a Bible ۰ a Glamour magazine
۰ a small ball of twine (about 10 metres) ۰ a plastic rain poncho (large)
۰ a half-full bottle of 200mg Motrin ۰ a 200 ml bottle of sunscreen (SPF 30)
۰ a 200 ml container of Skin-So-Soft ۰ a 300 ml bottle of rubbing alcohol
۰ 2 toothbrushes ۰ a box of assorted Band-Aids
۰ a tube of Neosporin ۰ 2 disposable razors
۰ 3 travel-size packages of tissues ۰ a leather belt
۰ a pair of sunglasses ۰ a roll of duct tape
۰ a bar of soap ۰ clothes: t-shirt, denim shorts, underwear
۰ a 100 ml bottle of shampoo ۰ a 100 ml roll-on deodorant
۰ an apple ۰ a O’Henry bar
۰ a baseball cap

The bag itself is canvas with a removable shoulder strap. It was open, and some items
apparently spilled out and were lost, but it was not ripped or damaged.

You have found some debris from the plane:

 a 2 m by 4 m section of metal from a wing, with some bent and jagged edges
 two 25 cm by 30 cm glass windows
 a seat cushion, which doubles a flotation device
 three 200 gram bags of honey-roasted peanuts
 a six-pack of Diet Dr Pepper
 a package wrapped in brown paper, containing a man’s large sweater and two DVDs
(The SpongeBob Square Pants Movie and The Sound of Music)

You each have the clothes on your backs, which is the clothing a person will normally wear on
such a vacation trip.

You may use any items that a person traveling on vacation would normally be able to carry
through airport security and onto a plane in his or her pockets. That means wallets and fanny
packs, but no purses or backpacks made it through the crash.

Your assessment will be lowered if you attempt to use anything that would not make it past
competent security screening.