Hillary Challenge

Social Studies Online

TASKS:

Students complete these starter activities as they journey to Tengboche.

• Before Views and Question Making
• Where in the World?

It is time to gather considerable general information on Sir Edmund Hillary and his life so that it can be used to develop thinking, framing questions that target the learning outcomes, and build knowledge and skills.

The Life of the Man Behind the Hillary Challenge

TASKS:

Select from these activities to learn about the main events in the life of Sir Edmund Hillary

• The Facts
• Timeline

Social Studies concepts:

• orientation
• geographical features
• location
• place
• environment

Use the Focus 1 text to consider:

• defining geographical features of this stage of the ascent
• clarifying how the team orientated itself to the place and the environment
• identifying the key ideas in defining the concept of 'place' and the key ideas in defining 'environment'
• introducing an activity to develop the understanding of new vocabulary as it is introduced throughout the study.

Activities:

• Strange comparisons: Compare my world with the Everest region
• Make a mountain madness minibook
  Put all the new terms and new mountain features that you discover when you use the Hillary challenge into a minibook. Use it to quiz each other at the end of the unit.