Description
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Get your students thinking, treating, and surviving with this immersive set of six medical survival challenges designed for health science and emergency response classrooms. In each scenario, students are placed in a real-world disaster or crisis where medical help is delayed — and they must think like healthcare professionals using only the everyday items around them.
Each scenario asks students to work in teams, analyze the setting, and choose three practical items to use in a healthcare emergency. They justify their choices, calculate their survival scores, and reflect on how to improve their critical thinking, emergency care reasoning, and teamwork.
Includes All 6 Scenarios:
- First Aid Flight 101: Emergency in the Jungle – Plane crash in the rainforest.
- The Great Gym Flood Survival Test – School gym floods with students trapped inside.
- Rescue Ridge: Think, Treat, Survive – Stranded hiking group in the mountains.
- Aftershock Aid: Think, Treat, Survive – Earthquake hits a crowded shelter.
- Eye of the Aftermath: Think, Treat, Survive – Hurricane recovery shelter, no power or medical support.
- Chill Zone Triage: Treat to Survive – Urban winter power outage leaves a shelter in crisis.
Skills Practiced:
- Critical thinking under pressure
- Resource prioritization
- Medical decision-making
- Teamwork & communication
- Creative application of health science knowledge
What’s Included for Each Scenario:
✅ Student-friendly emergency scenario & supply list (with and without scores)
✅ Bell ringer prompt
✅ Lesson introduction & teacher script
✅ Game instructions
✅ Scoring rubric and item key with points + medical uses
✅ Exit ticket for reflection
Perfect for:
✔️ Back-to-school icebreakers or team-building
✔️ Health Science, EMT, CNA, or PCT courses
✔️ Fun Friday activities
✔️ Brain break fun
✔️ Engaging students while reinforcing content skills
These scenarios are low-prep, high-engagement, and designed to help students build confidence thinking like healthcare professionals — even in the most unpredictable situations.
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