Week of 1-21: the Thursday group tested their critical thinking and problem solving skills by working through a few classic survival scenarios such as trapped at sea and lost in the wilderness. Students read a scenario describing an emergency situation and then had to make choices about what to do and what supplies to take or prioritize. Students then worked the same scenarios again in competing groups to see how group decisions and the decision making process compared to their individual choices. We then looked at the suggested choices and explanations as given by the US Coast Guard and wilderness survival experts (http://www.wilderdom.com/games/descriptions/SurvivalScenarios.html).
Students learned if they would have survived or not and why certain obvious choices were dangerous and how outside-the-box thinking is invaluable. The Saturday group created fantasy worlds based on fabric and paper cutouts of their hands and feet. The kids thought of how creatures would live in these words and they made a background world for them.
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