Hillary Challenge

Social Studies Online

• Unit Plan
• Level 5 Assessment
• How does the Hillary Challenge work?
• An Overview of the Learning Route From Kathmandu to the summit of Mt Everest
• Inquiry
• Buttons along the route
• Learning Centre
• Who Am I?
• Route Flags
• Introduction to the Hillary Challenge
• The Long March to Tengboche
• Focus 1: Motivating inquiry and stimulating interest
• The Journey up the Khumbu Glacier to Base Camp
• Focus 2: Training and preparing for the challenges ahead
• Camp II - High on the Khumbu Icefall
• Focus 3: Selecting an Idea or Action and Framing Questions
• Camp III - the top of the Khumbu Icefall
• Focus 4: The 1953 ascent of Mt Everest
• Camp IV - Advanced Base Camp in the Western Cwm
• Focus 5: The Impacts of the Place and Environments on People
• Focus 6: Rest and Recreation
• Camp V - at the foot of the Lhotse Face
• Focus 7: The Difficulties being Faced and How Needs are Met
• Camp VI - on the South Col at 7,925m
• Camp VII - the last camp on the South-East Ridge 8,748m
• Focus 8: Exploring Ideas on the Team Facing Extreme Challenges
• Focus 9: Making Summary Statements and Generalisations
• Focus 10: Reflecting on the Significance of Success and its Meaning to Individuals and Groups
• The Summit
• Library Books
• Biographies
• Maps and Routes
• Photos
• Hillary's Nepal Projects
• Everest Issues
• General Everest
• Student Activities
• Antarctica
• Recording Chart
• Sir Edmund Hillary's Speech - Changing Values on the Environment
• Our Team's Information Sources
• Writing Summaries: Links
• Thinking Deep
• Fridge Magnet: a Significant Spot
• Strange Comparisons: Compare My World with the Everest Region
• Communicating Findings - Audience Ideas
• Communicating our Findings - Presentation Ideas
• Team Presentation Plan
• Self Reflection: Making a Personal Connection
• Before Views and Question Making
• Our Team's Time Management Schedule
• Note Taking Matrix
• Where in the World?
• Main Events in Sir Edmund Hillary's Life
• The Facts
• Timeline
• Sir Edmund Hillary Reflection Activity
• Quotes
• Summary Matrix
• Thinker's Keys Activities
• fun activities
• Questions Making Chart
• T-table: Action taken by the Himalayan Trust
• Graphic Organiser: Pollution on Mountains
• Background Ideas for Historical Evidence from Time Tourist - A trip to Ancient Rome
• Colour from English Online
• Colour Connotations from English Online
• Symbols from English Online
• Suggestions for setting up a learning centre from English Online
• Kid Pix from English Online
• Language of Film from English Online
• Debate from English Online
• Features of an Argument from English Online
• Basic Rules for Radio Writing from English Online
• Advertising Brochures from English Online
• The Language of News Stories from English Online
• Poster Evaluation Sheet from English Online
• Static Images from English Online
• Exploring Cartoons from English Online
• Advertisement from English Online
• Writing Summaries from English Online
• Timeline Self Assessment from English Online

Web Resources

• Tengboche Monastery
• View from the Summit
• Sorting & Sifting Questions
• Primary Sources
• Secondary Sources
• Brainstorming
• Question Making
• Twos and Fours
• ABC Brainstorm
• Human Continuum
• Himalayan Trust
• Sir Edmund speaks out
• Environmentalists Off to Clean Up Everest
• Web Quest: Ascending New Heights
• Mt Everest Games / Fun
• Fuchs and Hillary in Antarctica
• Trans Antarctic Crossing - Fuchs and Hillary
• Antarctica The Place
• Encarta Encyclopedia Article: Antarctica
• Interactive Map of Antarctica
• Scott Base Web Cam Image (updated every 15 minutes)
• Antarctic Images
• Antarctic History - Scott's Hut
• Antarctica A Harsh Continent
• Heroic Explorers of the South Pole
• Shackleton Antarctic Explorer
• Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance
• The Race to the South Pole An Antarctic Web Quest
• Summit Day
• Pangboche
• Body Breakdowns
• NZ Edge Heroes: Sir Edmund Hillary King of the World
• Encarta Encyclopedia article Sir Edmund Hillary
• Sir Edmund Hillary
• Sir Edmund Hillary Interview Academy of Achievement (with video and audio)
• Brilliant Careers: A Man to Match his Mountain
• Time 100 Heroes: Hillary and Norgay
• Conqueror of Everest: Sir Edmund Hillary
• Sir Edmund Hillary (Early life / adult life)
• Edmund Hillary
• Tiger of the Snows: Tenzing Norgay
• Tenzing Norgay
• The Khumbu Icefall
• In the Icefall
• Crevasses will be spanned
• Traversing the last serac before Camp I
• Khumbu Icefall
• Western Cwm
• Soft evening light
• Day dawns fine and clear
• South-East Ridge
• Climbers ascending to today's Camp below the West face of the Lhotse
• South Col
• The facts about...
• 3 2 1 Graphic...
• Guidelines for using 3 2 1
• Flags of All Countries
• NZ Flag
• NZ Maori Flags
• Nepal Flag
• Climbing Everest Game
• Brain Pop Mountain Movie
• Mt Everest Route slide shows
• Slideshows
• Puzzlemaker
• Irrigation system in Ethiopia
• Rope bridge
• The Royal Geographic Society - Unlocking the Archives
• Himalayan Mountain Range (3rd Grade Class Webpage)
• The National Geographic 50th Everest Anniversary Expedition 2002
• Everest Camp Life (3rd grade class webpage)
• Everest Native Plants and Animals (3rd grade class webpage)
• NOVA Everest Online
• First to Summit
• Everest: The Death Zone - Transcript of 1998 NOVA Expedition
• Teacher's Guide to Everest: The Death Zone
• Encarta Encyclopedia Article: Mt Everest (Introduction, Geology, Climate, Climbing, Environmental Issues)
• Tengboche Monastery
• Tengboche Monastery Development Project
• Everest News
• Everest History Timeline
• Everest History Timeline (brief)
• Mt Everest History / Facts
• Mountain Gear Then and Now
• Gear and Equipment (3rd grade class webpage)
• 'A Higher Purpose' - Just how high does the highest mountain in the world feel? N.Z. Herald 12.8.1999
• Everest Pair Have Offspring in Their Step N.Z. Herald 5.3.2002
• 'Tashi First in Footsteps of Famed Mountaineering Fathers' N.Z.Herald 18.5.2002
• 'Yet Another Hillary Eyes Everest' 13.8.2002
• 50th Anniversary Celebrations
• Index of Graphic Organizers: Describing, Comparing/Contrasting, Classifying, Sequencing, Casual, Decision Making
• Graphic Organizers
• Printable Worksheet Graphic Organizers
• Reading Quest: Making Sense in Social Studies Graphic Organizers
• Inquiry Graphic Organisers
• Problem Solving Graphic Organises
• Freyberg High School Organisers for Social Studies Investigation
• Houghton Valley School Learning Journey Inquiry Model Organisers
• Graphic Organizer Student Exemplars
• Photo of Mount Everest
• Sagarmatha National Park
• The Everest Mess
• Sir Edmund Speaks Out: Pollution on the World's Highest Peaks
• 'Everest Gets a Clean Up' N.Z Herald 5.4.2001.
• 'Nepal to Pay Sherpas to Clean Everest' N.Z.Herald 26.2.2001
• 'Everest Hero's Cold War Secret Revealed' N.Z. Herald 27.12.200
• 'Everest Name an Insult Says China' N.Z.Herald 21.11.2002
• 'Fatal Mix of Business and Sport' N.Z. Herald 19.4.2000
• Map from Base Camp to Summit (today)
• The South Col Climbing Route (today)
• Everest route and camps from the south side (today)
• National...
• School Journals
• National Geographic
• Interactive map of Everest region
• The Sherpas of Mt Everest and links to maps of Mt Everest and Expedition Routes
• Himalayan Trust 1.
• Himalayan Trust 2.
• Himalayan Trust 3.
• Himalayan Trust Brochure
• New Peaks to Climb: Interview with Hillary (including Nepal projects)
• Tengboche Monastery Development Project
• Images of Mt Everest from Space
• Royal Geographic Society Picture Library - Everest
• Climbing Mt Everest (near the summit)
• Trash on Mt Everest
• PowerPoint
• HyperStudio
• Clicker 4
• Web Pages
• Front Page
• Inspiration
• Virtual Museum
• Readers' Theatre
• Play
• Brilliant Careers: A man to match his mountain
• What is a summary?
• Use summarizing to strengthen learning
• Strategies for teaching summarizing
• Summit
• 8,850 metres
• South Summit
• Summit ridge
• Great rock step
• Photo of Tengboche Monastery
• Kathmandu
• Nepal
• Symbols
• Chortens
• Prayer flags
• Mani stones
• Learning how to use ladders
• PowerPoint
• National Geographic Atlas
• Map of Nepal
• Map of the Everest region
• World map outline
• Asia Outline Map
• Kathmandu and Trek Photos