Mini Shelter Project Mini Shelter Project Your tribe

Mini Shelter Project

Mini Shelter Project Your tribe will be constructing a survival minishelter for one landscape of your choice. Your supplies: v. Twine v. Glue v. Popsicle Sticks v. Leaves v. Plastic Bag

Mini Shelter Project • Pick a Shelter Type – Debris Hut – Desert Shelter – Swamp Bed – Poncho Shelter – Igloo – Lean-To – Raft (for water survival)

Required: • Outhouse • Cooking Area • Sleeping Area • 2 Hunting Tools • Swing or Hammock • Windmill Special Features: • Canoe • Helicopter • Garden • Moat • Hot Tub • Hockey Rink • Solar Panels • Treehouse

Classroom Clean up Instructions: Clean Up: – Pick up anything off the floor – Scrub the Glue off the Desktops – Spray your desks – Dry – Call teacher over to check the desk – Put your Shelter away

Mini Shelter Project Questions: 1. Devise a Tribe Name. 2. Who are your Tribe Members? 3. Of the 4 Shelter Types, list which shelter you could construct for each environment? – Brazilian Jungle – Lost at Sea – African Savannah – Himalayan Mountains – Sahara Dessert – Stranded Island – Florida Swampland Treehouse – Antarctic Iceberg – Canadian Woods – Mexican Cave

Mini- Shelters 4. What is your strategy for building your minishelter? What environmental factors determine how you build your shelter? 5. Describe 3 flora (plants) and 3 fauna (animals) that live in each environment. – – – – – 6. Brazilian Jungle Lost at Sea African Savannah Himalayan Mountains Sahara Dessert Stranded Island Florida Swampland Treehouse Antarctic Iceberg Canadian Woods Mexican Cave

Mini-Shelters 6. What are 4 special features that you could include with your shelter? What makes each one unique or beneficial? 7. Describe in 2 sentences what your minishelter looks like? 8. Draw a sketch of what your shelter looks like. 9. List 5 other items you would like to have to construct your mini-shelter.