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You are to create a brochure to teach classmates how to survive in a harsh environment. You may pick either the desert, the extreme cold, tropical rainforest/jungle, or lost at sea. To make some notes for your brochure, click here.

Construct your brochure in the program The Print Shop. Make sure you choose the tri-fold brochure. On your brochure, you must fill all three pages. You can give any information you decide is important to surviving in your chosen place or situation. The pages should be as follows:

1st page: Must have a picture, a title, the names of your group members and your teacher's name.

2nd page: Must have a picture and "Dangers of _______" listing the dangers of that environment.

3rd page: Must have a picture and "Survival tips for ___________" with a list of tips on how to survive in that environment.

Surviving in the Desert

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Survival in the Desert

http://www.azuswebworks.com/az/desertsurvival/index.html

Surviving in the Desert

http://www.tortolita.com/survival.html

Discovery Channel: Learn to Survive

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/survival/guide/environment/desert/desert.html

Survival IQ

http://www.survivaliq.com/survival/desert-survival.htm

Global Crisis Solution Center

http://globalcrisis.info/desert.html

Surviving in Extreme Cold

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Wilderness Survival: Cold Injuries

http://www.wilderness-survival.net/cold-6.php

CDC Prevention Guide for Extreme Cold

http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/winter/guide.asp

Discovery Channel: Learn to Survive the Cold

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/survival/guide/environment/cold/cold.html

Science of the Cold

http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/science/cold_humans.htm

Surviving Lost at Sea

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Discovery Channel: Survive the Sea

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/survival/guide/environment/sea/sea.html

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/survival/guide/10things/sea.html

http://www.aircav.com/survival/asch16/asch16p01.html

Survival At Sea

http://www.caske2000.org/survival/survivesea.htm

Surviving a Tropical Jungle

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Discovery Channel: Learn to Survive a Tropical Jungle

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/survival/guide/environment/tropical/tropical.html

Wilderness Survival: Tropical Survival

http://www.wilderness-survival.net/chp14.php

Newton's Apple: Jungle Survival

http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/newton/jungle.html

Other Survival Links

Snow Quiz-Can you survive?

http://www.realkids.com/snowquiz.htm

Wilderness Survival: Shelters

http://www.wilderness-survival.net/cold-7.php

Discovery Channel: Survival Zone

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/survival/guide/guide.html

How to Survive Being Lost

http://www.ehow.com/how_136351_survive-lost.html

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