1. Island Survival (Part 2)
Exercising your Thinking and Survival Skills

2. ‘Abandon Ship’ to ‘The Landing’
Land Ahoy!!!
Again, a visual to offer your students some stimulus with which to imagine to joy of seeing land. In some cases, you may wish to challenge your students to write about all three parts of the events from Abandon Ship to the part where they reach land and possible safety. Itt all depends on your time factor.

4. Exciting Writing HOW? Use the materials from your Y Chart
3 paragraphs (one for each stage from ‘Abandon Ship’, ‘Life Boat Journey’ and ‘Saved!’
Swap and read and read out best stuff.

5. This will help to set the scene.

6. The sorts of activities they could follow to stay alive.

7. Activity 4. Taking stock of the island

8. Taking Stock of the Island
Lush tropical island
Mountain and plains
Clean water in rivers
Bamboo
Coral Reefs
Coconut trees and Bananas
Foot marks
Growling noises from forest
Two human skeletons
Smoke from the mountain
African necklace
Setting the scene. Are they alone or not? What can they use to survive? The African necklace could refer to some survivors of the slave trade from Africa to the sugar plantations of the Caribbean and the southern states of the USA.

9. Use items from ship and lifeboat as well as those on island
Use this SWOT Analysis to collect ideas on ’taking stock of their chances of survival on the island
Use items from ship and lifeboat as well as those on island

10. Activity 5. Develop the map. Where to establish a fort?
Explain contour lines and the high point. Encourage your students to justify their positioning of their fort with annotations to the various features. E.g.. Near the swamp – less chance of surprise attack fro that direction.

11. Establish your Fort How? Use your SWOT Analysis
You may add 4 other features to your map (eg. fresh water lake)
Decide where to place it on your map

12. Where to establish your fort?
See notes on previous island map

13. Use pictures to stimulate their imagination
Use pictures to stimulate their imagination. You can add other pictures as well

14. Day-to-day survival

15. Activity 6. Design Your Community
Use large sheets of paper and markers
In your plans, include, with labels;
Fortifications
Housing
Water collection and storage
Food garden
Dimensions in metres
Defensive apparatus from local and imported resources
How? Six Thinking Hats, Concept maps and CAF
Refer to Roman warlike inventions

17. Activity 6. Self-assess. Reflect/discuss your plan.
The Pros and Cons will assist in the analysis of their plans and then to Improve boxes will be how to accentuate their Pros or Strengths and how to minimise or remove their Cons or Weaknesses. Go to the next slide for a full screen version of Pros:Cons:Improve.

19. Peer Assessment of Community Plans
How?
Swap plans and one Explainer with another team
10 minutes to examine, analyse and judge
Use the Pros:Cons:Improve strategy
One Explainer from each team moves to the next table and shows the team’s plans. The hosts then study these plans and give feedback, again using the Pros:Cons:Improve tool. The Explainers then return to their own table and team, showing the feedback. Each team can then decide what they can do to make their plans ‘even better’, based on the feedback.

20. Activity 8. Designing a set of 10 Island Community Rules –Part 1
Purpose of rules
Daily living and peaceful co-existence, avoid conflict, survival, respect for environment
How?
Step 1. Use a Noisy Round Robin to list all society’s problems today in your community and elsewhere.
Step 2. Categorise and Classify these problems
Step 3- List these on White board

21. Designing a set of 10 Island Community Rules –Part 2
How?
Use data on white board
Strategy – 1:4:P:C:R
1: Each member writes own rules (Shhhhh!)
4: Share their ideas in turn
P: Get your best 10 rules on a large sheet
C: Circle room to get better ideas
R: Return and refine then Share with class
Option. Use the 1:4:P:C:R with the FRESH design tool (next slide)
The 1:4:P:C:R strategy or tool is explained in detail in Reflections on Classroom Thinking Strategies. See next slide for FRESH design tool

22. Teachers can offer one idea in each cell (I DO)

23. Activity 9. Assess which is the best set of rules?
How?
Strategy – Decision Making Matrix
Each team will be given two sets of rules to judge
Develop factors by which to judge these sets of rules, e.g. , Team work, Fairness, Protecting Environment (what else?)

24. Activity 10. Creating a story about survival on the island
How?
Strategy – Word/Image Association
See the next slide for the template. Model this by using this tool in front of the class

25. Use this slide to explain the Word/Image Association thinking tool

26. Each student can use their own Word/Image Association brainstorming tool to write and interesting story. You can end the lesson by reading out some of the stories, or maybe asking students to take turns reading out their stories in groups of four.
Please note that the graphic organiser above as well as the others I have used here will be available as an e-book for your laptop. The e-book is called Thinking Tools Templates and has 33 graphic organisers for your standard white board or interactive white board. Keep an eye out for this on