Survival at Sea Game

In this activity we were given a list of fifteen items and rank them according to how important they would be in a survival situation. I said that the water and the army rations would be the most important because the are extremely important in survival and you cant live long without them. I put the can of shark repellent as the bottom choice because it cannot really help you with survival or rescue. The transistor radio was hard to place because a radio is a good thing to have, but you can only listen on a transistor radio, so it loses much of its use.

My team agreed that food and water should be the top two priorities for the same reasons. In addition to that, the team also put shark repellent as the very last item. One thing that my team and I ranked very differently was a sextant. I put it as the fourth highest, but my team ranked it tenth highest. A sextant is virtually useless without star charts, and i didn't think about that when i ranked it so i agreed with my team on it. Our group worked together by voting for things, and exchanging ideas.

A lot of the expert rankings were very different from what the whole class thought. They put the shaving mirror as number one on the list. Their list was more in favor of being rescued than surviving though, and most of the class was thinking of survival more. They ranked shark repellent far higher than my team did. Also they ranked the chocolate bars near the middle, and my team ranked them very near the bottom. I think the expert rankings were based on being rescued, and my teams ranking were based on survival, so we cant really compare them.