ByronSmith.ca Everest 2000 - Educational Program: Phase1

Implementation and integration notes: "Goal Setting for Success"

These notes will help educators implement the activities for this phase and theme. They are included to provide an idea of the scope of the activities.

1. Use the Phase 1 Goal Setting for Success activity to introduce students to the Everest 2000 education program; to introduce them to the expedition leader, Byron Smith; and to introduce them to members of the climbing and base camp teams.
MORE: Background on Everest 2000 Team

2. View a video clip of Byron Smith as he answers the question that many people ask, "Why Climb Everest?" Byron discusses his personal motivation for attempting such an ambitious and challenging goal, potential barriers he has faced, and how he persevered to meet his goals successfully. "Why Climb Everest?" is the first of five questions in the Everest Education program, which represent the five phases of the expedition.
MORE: Expedition Itinerary and Education Overview.

3. The Goal Setting for Success activity is also an excellent motivational activity for students participating in either the 'Nepal Light', 'Stairway to Everest' or 'Read Your Way to Everest' challenges, also in Phase 1 of the program. Please note that there is an opportunity to link these challenges to the fund-raising activities of the Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation.
MORE: Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation.

4. If students are studying current events, they could find modern-day heroes from recent news, as a means of integrating the Everest expedition into other classroom activities. Please note that Everest 2000 is being extensively covered by CBC Newsworld.
MORE: Everest 2000 Week at a Glance

5. As part of a literature/language arts program, educators could choose to study a novel or poetry on the theme of heroes, or perhaps Everest expeditions.
MORE: Everest Library

6. Students' work (essays, reports, Web sites, pictures, multimedia creations etc.) can be submitted for posting to a central results page.

7. In order to find the best links to classroom curricula, teachers and others can look through the activities, topics and subjects covered in each of the five phases ahead of time.

Student learning outcomes for "Goal Setting for Success"

Students will conduct interviews and write a descriptive essay or biography on a personal hero.

Students will recognize that a variety of actions, work and efforts can contribute to a person's status as a hero.

Students will understand and apply the words: goals, perseverance, determination, success, challenges, barriers and limitations.

Students will generate effective open-ended and directed questions for an interview.

Students will compose, revise and edit text.

Students will communicate through a combination of media (i.e. interview via E-mail, phone, fax, letter, face-to-face, paper and pen, video or voice recording).

Students will access, gather and use information from Internet technologies.

Students will differentiate between real-life heroes and characters that they idolize for artificial qualities, as portrayed in various media (i.e. comic books, television programs, movies, games, etc.)

	Phase 1 Overview

	Telecollaborative Project: Getting to Know You

	Theme 1: Goal Setting, Decision Making ť Implementation ť Background ť Heroes: Goal Setting for Success

	Theme 2: Energy and the Environment ť Implementation ť Background ť Nepal Light Project ť Light and Electricity

	Theme 3: Energy and the Human Body ť Implementation ť Background ť Stairway to Everest Challenge ť Training Challenge