Survival Island
Your Story
You’re trapped on a deserted island and you must survive. The good news is that it is a magical island
and you can create any geographical landforms that you need. Your job is to add land forms to the
island to help you get food and shelter and survive.
Your Assignment
Prep work
1) Think about all of the landforms that you have learned about. What do the different landforms
offer to people living near them? What landforms would you need or want if you needed to
survive without any more clothes than those on your back and without any of the comforts of
your home or civilized community?
a. Brain Storm at least 10 different landforms and the benefits they offer to people living
near them.
b. The 10 listed above place in order of importance to you on your island.
2) Using the graph paper create a rough sketch of what your island will look like. Create a key of
your landforms using the squares to help with absolute location.
a. Refer to the teacher example of how to label the graph paper to help with absolute
location.
b. Make the island as livable and comfortable as possible.
3) Create a project that represents your island (all materials used should be found around your
house.
a. Drawing, Painting, 3D model
Must get preapproved by teacher:
b. Power point. Must include at least:
i. Min. of 10 slides
ii. Must include image of island
iii. Definitions of different land forms
c. Student Choice
Final Assignment
4) All projects (except power point) must include a final copy of a key.
a. Pictures not needed
b. Description of each landform
c. How will that landform help you survive?
Rubric
4
Neat and
Organized
Landforms
present
Key
Exceptional
Color. Key is
organized. 2 or less
glue or stray maker
marks.
Legible
All horizontal labels
4+
Completed landforms
represented. For
every landform over
4 there is 1 pt added
to final grade.
Key is present with a
complete description
of landform and how
it will be used to help
you survive.
3
2
1
Color is acceptable and
clear organized color.
Key is organized. 3 or
less glue or stray
marker marks.
Project has
appropriate color.
Key is somewhat
organized.
4 or less glue or
marker stray marks.
Legible.
Poor use or missing
color. No order to the
key. 5 or more Glue
or marker stray
marks. Handwriting
not legible.
0
Incomplete
No color
3
Completed
landforms represented.
2
Completed
landforms
represented.
1
Completed landform
represented
There are
no
completed
landforms.
Key is present with
either the description or
use is not clear or
described.
There is a key
Landforms
represented, but
description and use
is not clear or
described.
There are 3 or less
grammatical or
spelling errors.
Most sentences and
proper nouns start
with a capitol.
There are just a
couple of sentences
that are run-on or
do not have an
ending.
Final Assignment is
complete, but there
is no prep work
turned in.
There is a key, but
not labeled correctly.
There is
not a key.
There are 4 or less
grammatical or
spelling errors. Few
sentences or proper
nouns start with a
capitol. There are
multiple sentences
that are run-on or do
not have an ending
There are 5
or more
grammatica
l or
spelling
errors.
Sentences
are missing
capitol
sentences
Final Assignment is
not complete, but all
prep work has been
turned in.
Nothing
has been
turned in.
Grammar/
Sentence
Structure.
There are no
grammatical or
spelling errors. All
sentences and proper
nouns start with a
capitol. There are no
run-on sentences and
they have an ending.
There are 2 or less
grammatical or spelling
errors. All sentences
and proper nouns start
with a capitol. There
are no run-on sentences
and they have an
ending.
Completed
Work
Project contains all
prep work and final
assignment.
Final Assignment is
completed, but missing
one item of prep work