F I NA L PROJECT

OV E RV I E W
SURVIVOR
PRODUCTS

• Survival Guide: Students will

conduct scientific
investigations and use their
Maecenas
findings to write a survival
guide.
• Reflection Journal: Students
“Survivor” is an integrated science
will make a personal reflection and humanities project where
journal to capture their students will learn about human
survival from a social perspective as
survival experiences. well as from an environmental
perspective. Students will be
reading Lord of the Flies and
investigating what challenges the
characters in Lord of the Flies What do we need to survive--both
encounter both socially and physically and mentally?
What is the role of government in
physically. Students will learn about
establishing individual and/or group
scientific needs for water, food, and identity?
shelter as well as psychological Can good and evil coexist? Is mankind
needs for belonging and civilization. mostly good or mostly evil?
Is there equity in the access of food and
water?
H A R M S / FA R I N A S / F E R N A N D E Z
Spring 2017
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conduct scientific investigations. In the second phase, students will “survive” in the wild and use
HUMANITIES
• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
• Power, government, and symbols in Lord
of the Flies
• Social issues of access to water,
sanitation, and food.
• Comparative governments
SCIENCE
• NGSS Scientific Practices:
• Asking scientific questions
• Developing and using models
• Planning and carrying out
investigations
• Analyzing and interpreting data
• Constructing scientific
explanations
• Communicating information
PROJECT PHASES
This project will consist of 3 phases, centered around an overnight camping trip. In the first
phase, students will read and discuss Lord of the Flies. During this time they will also design and
their scientific findings to guide the experience. They will also journal about their personal
experiences of survival. To conclude the project, students will create a survival guide including
their reflections on their experience.
PRE PA RAT IO N JA N 3- FEB 21
Students will prepare for their survival experience by
reading Lord of the Flies , doing thematic analysis and
discussion. Students will also design a scientific
experiment that they will carry out during the overnight
camping trip. This will include asking a scientific question,
creating a model, and collecting and analyzing data.
S URVIVAL FE B 22-F EB 24
Students will camp overnight and hike during the day.
They will use the results of their scientific experiments to
inform their decisions about food, water, and shelter. They
will use their survival experiences to revise the survival
guide as needed. They will maintain journals about their
social experiences throughout the experience.
RE FLE CTION FEB 27- MA R 23
Students will finalize and publish their survival guide
which will include the results of their experiments as well
as commentary on social structures, power, and resources
that they experienced during their survival.