Introduction

You wake up in a daze with a monster headache. Your vision is blury, but you notice that your clothes are ripped and dirty. You are covered with sand and smell smoke in the air. All you remember is that you were on a flight from San Fransisco to China when all the sudden you heard a loud BOOM!

In this castaway adventure you will take on the role of someone who is completely lost. With limited memory of what happened and only a few resources, you will use your geographical skills learned in class, and the help of your castaway partner(s) to help you determine where you are and how to get home. Each clue will lead you closer to home, but also closer to the truth.

You are in charge of your destiny!

Task

As castaways on an unfamiliar island you will travel deep into the island, like this one (Island Jungle) where you have landed to look for clues that will help you understand where you are.

In your castaway teams, each member will be responsible for the following in your adventure;

1. Each team member will keep a journal (8 1/2 by 11 piece of paper) of the castaway adventure to turn in when finished.
2. The journal must be in first person form and in character, invent yourself (be a doctor, fireman, professional gambler, shower curtain salesperson, use your imagination!) Include a mini-biography of your character. (required)
3. Read then anwser in complete sentences, each of the five questions.
4. Finally tell me three things that you have learned or liked about your island.

Go through the entire webpage. Visit the Learning Advice, and Task links (on the left-hand side) to help remind you of your responsibilities concerning this assignment.

Begin your journey and answer the following questions by using the correlating pictures and websites as references to help answer them.

* Write down your answers on your own sheet of paper in complete sentences for full credit*

Click Here for more info and history on rice terraces

1. What can you tell me about the vegetation on the island? What other places can you think of that have the same kind of vegetation? What countries have rice teraces like these?

Vegetation collage-------------->

Physical Geography

Chocolate hills

2. What specific landforms and physical geography can you identify from this picture? What does that tell you about this island?

3. Along your path you notice different kinds of fruit. Can you identify them? What kind of climate do these kinds of fruit grow in?

Click on Buko Salad to learn how to combine these fruits to make a delicious native desseret.

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4. Without warning a bright flash sparks in the corner of your eye only to be followed by a loud clap of thunder that echoes throughout the sky. The winds pick up at fierce speeds blowing warm rain sideways and your make-shift hat off your head! It's a hurricane!

Click HERE to find out more about these gigantic storms that are all too common in the Pacific and Atlanic Oceans. Observe the different charts that tell you more about hurricanes and tropical storms in the Eastern Pacific. Also pay attention to which countries they mention are hit the most often.
a)What months of the year do hurricanes happen the most often?
b)Does this help give you an idea where you may be?

5. After hiking all day and night through hurricanes and bug infested jungles you come upon something that resembles civilization.
Describe the native culture that you encounter.
What are some skills/knowledge that you could learn from this culture?

Native Culture 1

Native Culture 2