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Bush Skills Sessions

OUTDOOR LIVING SKILLS
Goals
To identify the key necessities for human survival in wilderness environment.
To apply appropriate method and strategy for survival and rescue
To confer and act as a cooperative group

Potential Activities
Students are confronted with a survival scenario as survivors of an aircraft
crash, who have retrieved only a tarp, ropes, empty jugs, matches and a tin. After some instructive discussion about the immediate requirements for human survival, students confer, decide on a course of action, and form teams to pursue this – eg build shelter, make fire, find clean water. Since the scenario is physically acted out, the shelter built and tried out, the fire made – students can observe the results of their decisions and following the exercise, assess their efforts, suggesting what went wrong or right and why.

CSF II
Health&PE HIP(3.1) (4.2) MPA(3.1)
Biology

VCE
Outdoor Education