Donner Party

 

http://video.pbs.org/video/1401950336/

Problem

1.   Who was in fact the most likely to die?

2.   Why forty members died and the others lived in Donner Party? 

 Hypotheses 

1.   Who was the most likely die and live? 

2.   Why most of single men died?

3.   Why girls had the highest survival rate?

 Methodology

1.  Read the articles & reports by Dan Rogen’s

2.  Search the data(statistics)

3.  Brainstorm & discuss with team

4.  Watch the movies

5.  Share the idea to the team with email

 Results

1.  Survival rate by age and gender

	Girls	Women	Boys	Men
Survival rate	78.9%	66.7	61.5%	24%

2.  Survival rate by between single men and married men

	Single men	Married men
Survival rate	18.8%	44.4%

Conclusion     

1.   Male might have protected female.

2.   Parents must have given food to their children first.

3.   They might have needed large amount food as if they had to eat human flesh, so they ate men than another people.

4.   Married men couldn’t have died for responsibility to their family.

5.   When they had to choose men to eat, they might have chosen single men than married men who had to protect their family.

6.   We are certain single men who had no help from his family could have been weak mentality. Mentality is very important to survive.

7.   They ate and killed people to alive, but they must have kept their principle such as they might not have killed female, married men, and wouldn’t partake of his or her own relative’s that much.