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FOCUS 5: Exploring Leadership Skills and Qualities


Hillary Challenge

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Inquiry process: processing information

Social Studies concepts:

  • fear
  • interdependence
  • leadership
  • knowledge/skills

TASKS:

Consider:

  • the feelings relating to leading a significant physical challenge
  • some types of fear that people experience
  • finding information about some of these fears, the names given to them and possible ways that people overcome them.
  • what "being leader of all the expedition Sherpas" might involve
  • how Tenzing's leadership role might differ to that of Sir Edmund Hillary's on the mountain climb.
  • what skills and qualities Tenzing might bring to the lead party going ahead to complete a route to advanced base camp.





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