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__**Course Description**__

How Can You Survive? An Interdisciplinary Humanities Project

You are lost!! How will you survive in the Arctic tundra?

Your task is to demonstrate to your classmates and teachers that you can survive by creating a project that shows your knowledge and understanding of the tundra: its climate, geography, flora and fauna, and how to overcome the obstacles to survival in the Artic, if lost.

Apply the knowledge you have gained through reading Julie of the Wolves, class discussion, watching videos, websites, research/resource books, to show that you could survive. Make sure that all elements of survival are addressed.

Project Choices (choose one): 1. A diorama – complete with written explanations of how you survived for 7 days 2. An illustrated diary – 7 daily entries with illustrations, describing you life of survival 3. A Power Point Museum – Introduction to your museum exhibit, pictures of artifacts with explanations of how they were used to help you survive (5-10 artifacts) 4. An illustrated and annotated map – create a map that shows your path of survival and the obstacles you overcame-explanatory text required

Your project is due on: November 2, 2008

Each project will be presented to the class at that time. Some class time will be provided to plan and construct your project, and basic materials will be supplied.

Your project will be evaluated using the rubric on the back of this paper!

Choose a novel that takes place in another biome (not the tundra/Arctic). Check with your teacher to make sure your novel will work, and get “okay” to start. Read the novel and complete one of the projects listed above. (You may choose the same one as you did for the Tundra, or a different one.) Enjoy, and stretch your mind as you apply the same basic elements of survival to a different environment.
 * CHALLENGE (optional for interested eager beavers!)

This challenge project is due on November 16, 2008.