Survival Island
This term Room 10 have been playing a game called Survival Island for the past few weeks. Our teams were random choices, we also had to choose a name for our island, and some of the names are Crusoe Island, Swag –tastic Island, Unknown Island and Shipwreck Island.
This game helps us learn to co-operate with each other in a team. We have to try to figure out how to get through one week on a Stranded Island. So far Crusoe Island is in the lead followed by Land Of the lost and mystery island.
Each day we get flotsam from the boat and a problem card that we have to try solve. Each day we have to report back to the class about what our flotsam, problem and how we solved the problem and what we ate. And it’s about working together and questioning each other
Survival island is based on kids learning how they would survive if they were really stuck on an island with random people and how they would work together to survive
Coconuts
In Survival Island our class thought that coconuts only had one layer and you could make bowls out of the shell, which was the seed, no one knew anything except for Rico, Emmy and Timothy; they were the experts of the class. So our class had to research about them. Our class had to get into groups of 3 or 4 to research coconuts from school journal books. Our key word was drupe, the green outer layer of the coconut.
After we researched the information about coconuts, we got back into our Survival Island groups and we had to work out how to get a drink out of the coconut, have a taste of the coconut milk, then open it to get the coconut out and have a taste of the sweet flesh! Yum!
Now we know that it’s hard to harvest coconuts, get the drupe off so you can get to the seed and you can’t make perfect bowls out of the shell, unless you have a carpenter kit.
By Katie-Mae Maihi-Young & Rico Teakatu Ngatokurua Tarai.
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