This document provides instructions for students to create a survival guide project in small groups. Each group will choose a survival topic from a book and create various elements for their guide, including: an introductory paragraph on their topic, a top 10 list of ways to survive it, images and citations, video and sound clips and citations, and links. Students are provided examples from a sample "How to Survive a Tornado" guide. They are instructed to brainstorm, research, and develop the required elements which will then be compiled into their survival guide.

1. Survival! “How To”Survival Guide Requirements: One expository paragraph explaining your topic. “Top 10” list of ways “how to” survive it. Images of topic. Sound clip related to topic. Video clip of topic. At least 2 links pertaining to topic. Bibliography.

3. Split book club group into smaller groups of about 3 and each group choose 1 of the topics.

4. Make a list of every thing you know about the topic.

5. Make a list of what you need to research.

7. How To Survive a Tornado I know: They come fast without much warning. You need to find shelter. They are rated on scales from F1 to F5. Some people chase them. They last only a few minutes. Their winds are the fastest on earth.

8. How To Survive a Tornado What I need to research: How/why they occur (science behind it). How often they happen. Anecdote and statistics. Where they happen. What to do if… Where to go if… How to escape one. How to prepare for one.

9. How To Survive a Tornado Where I might find my resources: ***Internet Library database Magazines Books

10. YOUR JOB Use my Hatchet project as a guide and create all of your lists on the paper provided. By the end of the period, you must hand in your brainstormed lists. All group members’ names should be on everything.

11. Expository Paragraph Requirements: 1 introductory, expository paragraph explaining the topic—what it is, why it happens, when it happens, etc. Include a grabber. Include statistics, anecdotes, or what ever strategy works best for your topic. 5-8 sentences. Conclusion sentence

12. Top Ten List You must include 10 WAYS to survive this particular topic (How to Survive a Tornado). They need to be real! This is not a humorous project. They should be helpful to someone who may encounter that situation. They need to be written in complete sentences with reasons “WHY.”

13. Acquiring Images If an image accompanies your online articles, you may use it, if not, do a Google image search to find them. Images must be real, not cartoon-like. You must cite the image by copying the image’s url (www.). Then you need to paste it into a word document titled “Bibliography.” Also include a title for the picture so you remember what you were citing. You must save the image to your folder as well.

14. Acquiring Video Clips Our school’s computer security prevents us from using sites like youtube. You can Google your topic and if the site is allowed through security and appropriate we can use it. Schooltube is also available. We can upload video if the site allows, but for now you need to copy the url of the video site, paste it into your bibliography and give it a title, just like you did the images.

15. Acquiring Sound Clips Use the following sites to grab sound clips if you are not bringing them in from home. http://www.soundjay.com Or http://soungle.com/

16. Downloading Sound Clips Once you’ve listened to a sound clip and decided to use it, do the following: Click the download arrow under MP3 Click “open with” but make sure “iTunes” is set as the default. Click “ok” and iTunes will automatically open up In iTunes go to the “Recently Added” list. Make the list icons and drag your icon on to the desktop. That is where you can take it from when you are putting it on the webpage.