Survival Shelters outlines what to teach 6th grade students about building survival shelters during a Hatchet field day. Students should be taught the 5 W's of site selection including proximity to water, avoiding dead trees, and reducing bugs. They will learn how to construct lean-to and double lean-to (A-frame) shelters using building materials like frames and debris for weatherproofing. The document provides diagrams of completed shelters including use of a firepit and windwall for additional protection.

1. Survival Shelters
GRADE 6 HATCHET FIELD DAY

2. What makes a good site?

3. Water – needs to be near to a source of drinking
water, but you don’t want to get flooded out!
Widowmakers – dead trees / branches that could
come down in the next storm…
Wiggiles – reduce proximity to bugs that bite or sting
Weather / Wind – protect against Hypothermia!
Wood – needed for construction and fire

4. What you will be expected to
teach the kids on Monday…
- 5 W’s of site selection
- Types of shelters
- Lean-to
- Double lean-to (A-Frame)
- Make your bed first!
- Building materials

5. A good site for a
shelter!

6. The “Backbone”

7. The Frame

8. Debris for Weatherproofing

9. Extras: Firepit and Windwall

10. A-Frame Construction