Integrating Web Resources into Teaching Mount Everest (Lung Teng Book 6 Lesson 1) I. About the PowerPoint file: This ppt file is divided into two parts. Part I Everest Facts serves as the pre-reading activity. Part II Like Fathers, Like Sons serves as the post-reading activity. The pedagogical aim is to inform and motivate. Interaction is achieved as students are to fill in the blanks with the appropriate/missing words.

II. About Everest: to the Top of the World: This article is a follow-up activity of Like Fathers, Like Sons. Students are paired up. Student A is to fill in blanks in paragraphs 1, 3, 5..., while student B is to fill in blanks in paragraphs 2, 4, 6…. After finishing their own tasks, they help each other check and correct the answers without giving the answers directly. Through this information gap activity, students learn by providing hints and cooperating.

Lesson One Mount Everest I. Mt. Everest Facts II. Like Fathers, Like Sons Debbie Wen

How much do you know about Mt. Everest?

When was Mt. Everest formed ? Mt. Everest was formed about (50/ 60/70) million years ago.

How tall is Mt. Everest? The official altitude of the world's highest p____ is 29,029 feet (8,848m). However, the National Geographic Society has determined the height to be _____ feet taller, 29,035 feet, but the Nepali government has not yet been made this new altitude o______. Shifting tectonic plates continue to p______ Everest upward, along with the whole Himalaya mountain range, at 1.6 to 3.9 inches (4 to 10 centimeters) per year. eak 6 fficial ush

Ownership: Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal Where is Mt. Everest? Everest is part of the Himalaya mountain range along the border of _______ and _______. It is located 27° 59' North latitude, 86° 55' East longitude. Nepal Tibet Ownership: Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal  

Why is it called Mt. Everest? In 1841, Sir George Everest, Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843, first recorded the location of Everest. It was subsequently named "Peak XV". In 1865, it was renamed Mt. Everest to ________ Sir George. honor Sir George Everest (1790–1866), Surveyor General of India, 1830–43.

Everest is also called Chomolungma in Tibet (means: _______ goddess of the universe) and Sagarmatha in Nepal (means: goddess of the ______).    mother sky The summit of Mt. Everest is the highest elevation above sea level on planet Earth, and its name has entered the language as a metaphor for the ultimate of anything. back

Mount Everest, standing over 29,000 feet above the surface of the sea, is the highest point on earth on which a human can walk. As such, the challenge of reaching this so-called "Third Pole" was a dream of explorers and mountaineers from the moment it was first identified as the highest point in the world.

In 1953, Edmund Hillary(left), a beekeeper from New Zealand, and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa from Nepal, reached the top of Everest, the tallest mountain on Earth. Norgay died in 1986.

______." --- Sir Edmund Hillary (at an interview, 1996) "You know we had this psychological barrier. We didn't know if it was humanly possible for a human being to set foot on top of Everest, even using oxygen. All the physiologists had warned us that it might be impossible. So my feeling was we were going to give it all we had and if everything went well, maybe we'd ___________ ______." --- Sir Edmund Hillary (at an interview, 1996) get to the top

"You cannot be a good mountaineer, h______ great your ability, unless you are cheerful and have the spirit of comradeship. F______ are as important as achievement. Another is that teamwork is the one key to success and that selfishness only makes a man ________. Still another is that no man, on a mountain or elsewhere, gets more out of anything than he puts into it.“ --- Tenzing Norgay owever riends small

Jamling Norgay, Brent Bishop, and Peter Hillary To mark the 50th anniversary of Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary doing what at that time seemed only just a dream, Peter Hillary and Jamling Norgay returned to Everest in 2002. Left to right, Jamling Norgay, Brent Bishop, and Peter Hillary

“To climb Everest I always say that the main keys are mountaineering experience and p______. It must come from ______ you. In fact anything you do in life must come from the heart." --- Jamling Norgay assion within

Son of Tenzing norgay, Jamling was climbing by age six. In 1985, Jamling moved to the U.S. to attend Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, where he studied business administration. Jamling with father

Jamling last summited Everest in 1996, but refuses to try for the peak again after separate expeditions that year ended with 15 deaths. Jamling continues to guide expeditions, including Peter Hillary’s May 2002 ascent. Jamling Norgay climbs one of Everest's ice walls.

Peter Hillary grew up surrounded by adventure, and has accompanied his father on many expeditions. He dedicated his May 2002 Everest ascent to his father.

Everest is Mighty, We are Fragile by Peter Hillary For Everest climbers, there has been progress, but it lies only in the technology of our equipment and communications. The mountain r______ the same: huge, steep, cold and impassive toward our human endeavor. On the great mountains of the world there is constancy, and the Everest that _____ the lives of George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Irvine in the 1920’s is the same Everest that was finally remains took climbed by my father and Tenzing Norgay in 1953,

the same one I climbed on May 10, 1990, with Rob Hall and Gary Ball on a brilliant sunny day, and it is the same Everest that took the lives of eight climbers, including Rob’s, in a terrible storm on May 10, 1996. Some things never _______. While having all the right equipment and clothing is essential, it is only 5% of the mountaineering equation - of what is needed to reach the top. The rest lies with _____. Do you have the drive, the psyche, the power? change you Equipment Clothing = 5% of mountaineering

by Peter Hillary

Photo Gallery Base camp

Sunset on Everest

Sherpa women Yaks

References: Mt. Everest Information: www.teameverest03.org/everest_info/ Mt. Everest History and Facts: www.mnteverest.net/history.html Higher Than Everest? www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/exposure/higher.html Sherpas On EVerest www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/history/sherpason.html Everest: To the Top of the World www.npr.org/programs/re/archivesdate/2003/apr/everest/ NGC's 'Mission Everest' to air on Star Plus, [V]  www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k3/apr/apr54.htm Touching My Father’s Soul www.touchingmyfatherssoul.com/author.html Everest is Mighty, we are fragile www.peterhillary.com/Fragile.htm

References: Tenzing Norgay Sherpa www.tenzing-norgay.com/ about/tenzing1.html www.4to40.com/images/legends/tenzing/tenzing_norgay.gif www.ponsprim.com/.../Doodleart/ album1.html http://classic.mountainzone.com/climbing/himalayan/ http://teacher.scholastic.com/hillary/archive/sherpas.htm