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This phase occurs as Byron and the other members of the summit team are getting ready to reach the top of the world. Students focus on the human body and its responses to high altitude and reduced oxygen pressure. Activities in the Energy and the Human Body theme concentrate on the respiratory system.

Students will learn more about weather conditions and protecting climbers from the cold. Activities include discussing the decision making process Byron uses as he decides when to proceed to the next camp along the climbing route.
LINK: Follow the climb

Students will learn more about the Nepal Light Project with Dr. Dave Irvine-Halliday as he visits the team at Base Camp. Students will be invited to learn more about Dr. Halliday's ideas for "Pico-Power" and how small energy sources might help keep climbers warm in future expeditions. Students will compare the amount of light produced by an incandescent light bulb to the light produced by a white Light Emitting Diode (LED).
LINK: Nepal Light Project background | Nepal Light Project introduction

The activities for this phase are outlined below.

Theme 1 - Goal Setting, Decision Making and Problem Solving

Division I - IV Activities:

• Read Your Way to Everest:
  Students continue working with their groups to reach their goal of reading 8,850 pages, equivalent to the height of Mount Everest in metres. They will also continue to learn about and research Nepalese cultural traditions as they plan their final event to celebrate. This event will celebrate not only Byron reaching the summit of Everest, but their own success in meeting the goal of "Reading their Way to Everest".

• Decision Making with Weather: Everest Advice Column
  Students will review weather experiments from Phase 3 and use the skills they have gained to post weather predictions and advice on the Everest 2000 Submissions and Results page. Students can then review and compare their decisions to those made by Byron.

Theme 2 - Energy and the Environment

Division I Activities:

• Challenge: To wire a model house.

1. Resistors
2. Series and parallel circuits
3. Light Emitting Diodes
   Challenge: To design a headlamp using 4 LED's as a light source.

1. Resistors
2. Series and parallel circuits
3. Light Emitting Diodes
   Challenge: To design a headlamp using 4 LED's as a light source and compare to light produced by the headlamp with an incandescent light bulb. Division IV Activities:
   Focussing Concept: Building a Table lamp
   1. Resistors
      Challenge: To design a headlamp using 4 LED's as a light source and compare to light produced by the headlamp with an incandescent light bulb. Compare the amount of current required to operate both systems and estimate how long an alkaline battery will last in each system.

   Theme 3 - Energy and the Human Body

   Stairway to Everest Challenge (continued)
   Students will participate in the stair-climbing event and post their results on the Everest 2000 Submissions and Results page as they complete their planning for the summit celebrations.

   Respiratory System and High Altitude
   

   • Division I: Breathing Rate and Exercise
     
   • Division II: Breathing and Carbon Dioxide
     
   • Division III: Lungs and Breathing

   • Division IV: Milk Jug Spirometer, Pulse Oximeter
     

   Weather Activities
   Divisions I to IV:

   • Monitoring Weather Conditions
   • Preventing Heat Loss
   • Wind and Wind Chill
   • Wind, Evaporation and Heat Loss
   • Protecting Climbers from the Cold

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