Students & Survival Scenarios

Tyrkon Lawson

Tyrkon Lawson

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So now that we are towards the end of summer school and are working on Ecology and Physiology I thought I'd have the students do a fun activity today. Not the most detailed perhaps but it gets the point across to the kids.

I used this link:
http://wilderdom.com/games/descriptions/SurvivalScenarios.html

and we did the plane crash scenario towards the bottom right. Basically they had to work on a scenario where they were survivors in a plane crash in Canada and were left with only what they could salvage. I had them rank the items in order of importance and then write the use each item had. Of course there were a lot of silly answers but some really good ones that were spot on. Anyway, they got a kick out of it and hopefully their minds are a little more open to survival and using their environment than it previously was.

Let me know if you guys know of other activities like this. Thanks. :thumbup:

http://scoutingweb.com/scoutingweb/SubPages/SurvivalGame.htm

These aren't the most motivated kids but they really have gotten into this part of the course.
 
AHH! we just did that one in a college business class.. and I complained about it in my thread "Shelter or Fire"
 
One time in college we were on a field trip and my buddy got left behind at a park right at dusk.

We told the instructor that he wasn't on the bus but they kept thinking we were BS'ing.

When my pal came out from the bathroom the place was deserted and it was getting dark.

He walked out of the park and to the main road. Then he walked back into the woods to a flat place and started a fire, and slept around it till the next morning. (he had a down coat and it was fall)

The next morning he hitched a ride to the nearest town and then hired a taxi to take him back to school.

Not exactly a huge survival thing but he had a knife, enough clothes, a lighter and money!:thumbup:
 
hollowdweller said:
One time in college we were on a field trip and my buddy got left behind at a park right at dusk.

We told the instructor that he wasn't on the bus but they kept thinking we were BS'ing.

When my pal came out from the bathroom the place was deserted and it was getting dark.

He walked out of the park and to the main road. Then he walked back into the woods to a flat place and started a fire, and slept around it till the next morning. (he had a down coat and it was fall)

The next morning he hitched a ride to the nearest town and then hired a taxi to take him back to school.

Not exactly a huge survival thing but he had a knife, enough clothes, a lighter and money!:thumbup:
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hmmm....now this is making me think!
 
Had the wintertime air plane crash one at problem solving get away at my work.

And of course they did not like my answer, BUT I said i will take it all, WHY you ask, well in this situation aren't you supposed to stay with the wreck because that would be easier to find so all the stuff is there anyway.
 
Ya if you read the rationale to the airplane crash one it states that the best choice would be to stay put and use all your resources to first regulate core body temperature then second to signal for help from search parties that should be looking for a missing flight.

I know that there may be suggestions that we may not agree with in some of these group dynamic scenarios but again I was just glad to see my city kids so interested. They actually had some good ideas for fire starting and warmth. And there were also some misconceptions we were able to cover.

We are in our last two weeks of summer school (thankfully) and we will be covering Human Physiology. I'm thinking that will fit perfectly with what we all talk about here in terms of needs for personal survival. And since we all live in the Los Angeles area I thought I could weave in clips of the series "Colony" to discuss things relevant for us if we had a huge natural disaster here. I haven't seen much of the show myself so I will have to preview the clips first. I also have read criticisms regarding the show but I guess that's to be expected for most of these "reality based" shows. I just thought it would be fun and useful to teach the kids a few basics for an emergency that COULD be a reality for them one day. And they seem to be digging it so far. :D
 
Why are you guys always crashing planes in our country? Can't they just overshoot a few times and crash in Russia?

:D :D

Sounds like a good class.
 
"if a plane crashes on the border between the US and Canada, where do they bury the survivors?"
 
I used to start the school year with a list-cluster-label decision making technique. One of my co workers is a Latter Day Saint, and she suggested a "72 hour go bucket" hurricane scenario, rather than a nuclear power plant meltdown I had been using. Students were given about 15 minutes to identify areas of concern they would face if required to evacuate in the face of a Category 5 storm with 20 foot storm surge. The evacuation was to a town 30 miles inland to the Wall Mart parking lot (used as staging areas in our county for water and ice). They were to be self sufficient for the first 72 hours, after that water and ice would be provided/ possibly MREs. They were then given 30 minutes to list items that they actually have in their homes to meet the challenges. Items had to fit within a 5 gal bucket with lid. They were allowed 2 buckets, one for water and food, the second for everything else. If it couldn't fit in the bucket it couldn't go. The following day we developed a hurricane plan, identifying storm/flood evacuation zone, a predetermined hunker in place v. evacuation requirement according to Safir Simpson scale. We set up a communication tree, identified special needs requirements, requirements for extended family,pets, or neighbors, Over the years a prepared check list with emphasis on where in their house the equipment was located, along with a brief statement on water purification, foodstuffs, shelter suggestions , etc.. Later in the year the had a land navigation lab (foot ball field) with a night navigation segment. Additionally they had to devise a long shelf life, low preparation, pallatable home brew MRE. Finally an Escape and Evasioin 101 scenario ala Ross Perot's EDS in extracting workers from a hostile foreign country without intervention from the government. regards Les

BTW.... we did a very large scale Emergency Management integrated project
 
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