Geography Unit 7: Mount Everest: Climbing the worlds tallest physical feature

Duration: 1 week

CA State Standards: 10.10.1 Understand the challenges in the regions, including their geopolitical, cultural, military,
and economic significance and the international relationships in which they are involved.

Essential Question: How can people both experience and protect the worlds special places?
Reading: pages 419-427
Objectives/Learning targets:
1. Describe the physical geography of Mount Everest and the surrounding areas.
2. Identify challenges climbers encounter on their way to the summit.
3. Discuss the issues regarding tourism and protection of World Heritage sites.
4. Decide if Mount Fuji should/should not be designated as a World Heritage Site

Resources:
Power-Points/Notes
Chapter 29.0
Chapter 29.1
Chapter 29.2
Chapter 29.3

Film
Everest
Mt. Fuji (You Tube)

Activities
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Primary Source
Documents/Articles
Japan Times: Mount Fuji
on verge of World
Heritage listing

exposure
summit

World Heritage Site

elevation

Vocabulary:
acclimatize
UNESCO

carrying capacity
tourism

Assessments
Diagnostic

Formative

Summative

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Unit 5 Quiz #s 7-10

Common Core Application:

Activity:

RH1: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources,
attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.
RH2: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source, provide
an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.

WHST9: Draw evidence from literary and/or informational texts to support analysis,
reflection, and research.

SL1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions.

L6: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific
words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college
and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge
when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.

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Japan Article



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