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FOCUS 7: Exploring Ideas on the Organisational Skills


Hillary Challenge

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Inquiry process:
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Social Studies concepts:

  • problems v challenges
  • multi-tasking

Consider:

  • ensuring the terms 'tools' and 'resources' are clearly understood.
  • defining "multi-tasking"
  • relating the idea to daily life at home
  • identifying and describing a key skilled "multi-tasker" in the home environment
  • clarifying the skills that a "multi-tasker" has developed
  • identifying examples of multi-tasking in this stage of the ascent of Mt. Everest
  • discussing "On the climb was Sir Edmund Hillary a multi-tasker?" Provide evidence
  • discussing the terms "problems' and 'challenges'
  • what determines the difference between them?
  • depicting examples of physical challenges, mental challenges and social challenges on the South Col stage of the climb.




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