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Young People work individually and then collaboratively to rank survival gear during a simulated mountain emergency, demonstrating teamwork, communication, and basic expedition safety knowledge.

Resources

Printouts of the attached sheets
Pens or Pencils

Instructions

INTRODUCTION

Imagine your patrol is out hiking a remote stretch of the Cairngorms in late autumn.

The weather turns instantly: freezing rain, a total whiteout fog, and howling winds. To make things worse, one of your patrol members has just twisted their ankle and cannot walk without support. You are 8 kilometers from the nearest road, and daylight will be gone in two hours.

You have your daypacks, but you cannot carry everything if you need to move, nor is everything equally important right now. Your challenge is to rank the 10 items in your pack in order of priority to keep your group safe until help arrives.

Part 1 - INDIVIDUAL (10 to 15 minutes)

1. Remind the Scouts that this part of the exercise is an indivdual challenge and they musty not discuss their answers with the other Scouts

2. Give each Scout a blank copy of the indivdual sheet and ask them to rank the items from 1 to 10 with 1 being the most important and 10 being the least important.

PART 2 - GROUP (15 to 20 minutes)

1. Split the Scouts into Groups of 4 or 5

2. The Scouts complete the same exercise again but this time as a group. Remind the Scouts that they must debate and discuss each item; listening to everyone's opinion before agreeing on 1 unanimous ranking for the group.

PART 3 - EXPERT OPINION & SCORING

1. A leader should read out the "expert" ranking and the notes justifying these responses.

2. Scouts should write down the expert rank in the relevant column and then calculate the difference between their answer and the expert answer (eg. if the Scout ranked an item as 2 but the expert ranked it as 6; the difference would be 4 - negatives do no matter here)

3. The Scouts should add up their difference column to get a final score as an individual and as a team.

REFLECTION AND FEEDBACK

1. Ask the Scouts to reveal their indivdual scores and then ask the teams to reveal their group score. Did the group do better than the indiivdual?

2. Ask the Scouts; how they think they performed as a team . Generally; you would expect the team score to be lower than the individual score. If an individual in a team got a lower score then their team; ask the team why they think that might be? Did that individual struggle to convincingly make their point? Were they shouted down or ignored by their team mates?

Tags

• emergency
• Hill walking
• Problem solving
• survival skills
• teamwork

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