Blog Assignment: Survival At Sea Game

• Intro: A brief summary of the activity. 
  in this activity we got the survival at sea handout and had to independently order the items on the handout1-20 based on what you thought was the most important and least important if you were stuck at sea on a raft. once we all finished doing the assignment independently we got into groups, and then as a group we had to discuss what we all got a make one final copy of the items. after we did that we sat in our groups and Mr. Olsen showed us the real answers and we compared our individual and group answers to the real answers.
• Personal Prioritization: List your prioritization of the items. Share your reasoning on your top 2 picks and your bottom choice. Were there any items you had a hard time choosing a ranking for?
  my groups top two picks were the rations kit because you would need food, and the gallons of water so you wouldn't get dehydrated and die. our bottom two picks were oil and fish line. our group actually didn't have that tough of a time deciding on our picks.
• Team Prioritization: What priority did your team agree on? Talk about an item the group ranked similarly to you. What was something the group ranked far differently than you? What was something you and the group ranked similarly? How did your group work together?
  my groups priority was to keep surviving. my groups top two picks were the same exact top two picks that i had listed. my group and i ranked differently when i choose oil and fish line in the middle  of my list and they all had those items listed on the bottom of there list. we worked together by just talking about each item for a couple of minutes and really thinking where that item would fit best.
• Expert Prioritization: How did your choices compare to the "official" Coastguard choices? Were there any big surprises between the two? What do you put more weight in, expert opinion or experiential data? Why?
  our choices differed a lot from the coastguards choices but there were a few items that we had in the same range. yes, there were some very big suprises from ours to theres, a couple of our top picks were at the bottom of the coastguards lists, our picks were just very uneven and not on the same track. i would put more weight on the coastguards opinion because they are the experts in the ocean and they have studied alot about that environment to get to that job and i think they have a real good idea on what they are talking about.