Before leaving for
Staten Island Greenbelt, second graders worked in teams to select 5 to 6 objects that might help them survive if they were stranded on an uninhabited island. What could they use to find food, shelter, and water?
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| Many groups opted for cell phones and money, but soon realized that the lack of electricity and stores made those objects useless. |
One team didn't want a mirror: "There will be so few people there that it won't matter what you look like." Others thought that a mirror could help them start a fire.
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| Tough decision. |
At Staten Island, kids kept note of available resources on a map of the trail.
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| Are those berries edible? |
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| And they sketched, trying to draw what they saw. |
Back at BNS, students organized survival ideas for finding food, shelter and water on a class chart.
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| Not the most appetizing menu but it will keep you alive: worms, leaves, birds, mushrooms, birds' eggs. |
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| Dig a hole at the edge of the island to get water. |
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| Collect water from a lake and rain water... |
What's next? Using a computer to tell about island survival. Building shelters. And exploring rock properties to see how they can be used.
Link to earlier entry.
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