Survival Log
Names: _____________________________
Date: ________
Name of website visited: ____________________________________________
Task being worked on (circle):
Survival Manual
Specific piece of information learned from
this site:
Website usefulness
(circle):
LOW
1
Bill of Rights
Diary Entries
How we might use it for this
task:
2
3
What could be done to improve this website? Explain:
4
5
HIGH
Lord of the Flies
Introduction
Survival WebQuest
STRANDED!
You wake up in a thick tangle of jungle vines, bloody and bruised. Your
clothes are torn. Your head throbs in pain. A blinding tropical sun beats
down into your eyes, blurring your view of the beach ahead. Slowly, you
pick yourself up and look out toward the ocean. There lies the smoldering
wreck of the 747 jet that was supposed to bring you and your classmates to
the Hawaiian resort you'd be staying at for your class trip.
Imagine the sounds of the jungle around you...
As you stumble across the beach, you discover that your classmates are
equally battered, but otherwise okay. The pilots and flight attendants are
nowhere to be found, though. As you stare at the wreckage, one of your
classmates comes running down from a hill. "I've been to the top!" she
shouts. "It's an island! No buildings, no people, no nothing!" Several kids
groan in dismay. "The storm blew us totally off course," one kid tells
another. "We could be anywhere." "I know," the other responds, "and cell
phones won't work. The plane's black box was destroyed. Nobody knows
where we are or how to get to us. We're stranded!"
Dazed but mostly intact, you and your 25 classmates begin the difficult task
of searching through the wrecked plane for any items that can be saved. It
looks like you're going to have to fend for yourselves for the foreseeable
future.
YOUR TASK (TO BE COMPLETED OVER THE NEXT 3 WEEKS)
In the end you will have to figure out two things: one, how to
survive in the wild with only a small amount of emergency
equipment; and two, how to set up rules for the society of
survivors you've been forced to become.
This WebQuest will help you put together a survival manual and to
create a set of basic laws for your new government. You will also create a
set of short diary entries detailing your quest for survival.
Task
The first thing to do is choose a partner. Nobody wants to end up like Tom
Hanks in Castaway!
You and your partner have 3 major tasks for your survival adventure...
WEEK 1:
1. Create a Survival Manual containing two major elements: a) an equipment guide
that describes the features and use of the five most important pieces of survival gear
you've salvaged from the plane; and b) a list of five key rules for surviving in your
isolated tropical environment. You will gather information from various survival
websites to help you on your way.
WEEK 2:
2. Create a Bill of Rights for your new island society. Come up with a list of ten basic
laws for your new society and consequences for breaking them. You will study various
human rights issues and societal laws during your WebQuest to model your new Bill of
Rights on. Remember, you're trying to "get it right" here on your little island; the adults
have screwed things up pretty badly in the outside world!
WEEK 3:
3. Write a total of four diary entries (two by you, two by your partner) detailing
different moments in your quest for survival on the island. Because these diary entries
must reference information in your Survival Manual and Bill of Rights, you will write
them after having completed the first two tasks. The purpose of the diary entries is to
allow you to show how your survival knowledge and societal rules would actually work.
You will visit a variety of websites to help you with these tasks. For each site visited, you
will be asked to fill out a Survival Log. Your Survival Logs will help you organize the
information you collect from each site so you can more easily assemble your Survival
Manual, Bill of Rights, and diary entries.
Your first step should be to divide up the work with your partner. Who's
going to work in what pieces of equipment, survival rules, or Bill of Rights
laws? Brainstorm together. How might these work in action?