Ideas for icebreakers and rainy day games can be found here. In teams, have each student select a marker of a different color. All members of the team, using only their own colors, and with no oral communication, create a team picture of an alien creature. Once the illustration is complete, the team discusses the results and names their creature. You are on an airplane that is forced down in the Sahara Desert in North Africa .
All passengers are okay.
There is no guarantee of a rescue, nor of continued survival. It is a 3-day journey north, to a city. Divide the class into small cooperative groups. At the end of the activity, the group must be prepared to tell why the seven items were selected. Another section of Survival Kit for New Teachers focuses on ideas for motivating students.