Video Integration

Amy Bohman
EDMT 380-002 Elective Assignment
Fall 2005

ITV/Video Integration

Lesson Summary
This video would used in a 2 day lesson plan for 6 th graders that will be used as a transition from a unit of the geography of Mount Everest and a unit on climbing Mount Everest and the populations that live in higher altitudes. The lesson will explore climbing the mountain and how the altitude affects your oxygen intake. Students will work in groups to determine how there can be communities and vegetation along Mount Everest when early climbers needed oxygen masks along with them. Students will research different expeditions to Mount Everest in order to compare and contrast expeditions of today and expeditions of the past (1920s and 1950s). Students will complete a chart describing the clothing, equipment, usual expedition size, and reasons for climbing for the 1920s, 1950s, and today. A video will be used towards the middle of the lesson to show an experiment on the affect of high altitude and oxygen intake. Another portion of the video will be used to show students some viewpoints of the need for oxygen while climbing.

Learner Preparation and Cueing
The teacher will prepare students by helping the students review the information they have learned about Mount Everest. The teacher should then ask them to picture themselves on an expedition to climb Mount Everest. Students should write a journal entry of how they are feeling standing at the bottom of the mountain preparing to climb up.

Viewing Details
This video is low quality in its entirety. However, there are two portions of the video that will work well for this lesson. The first portion of the video that will be used is about 6 minutes into it. The first clip lasts 2 minutes. The clip has Sir Edmund Hillary describing his experiences of climbing Mount Everest and the use of oxygen tanks to succeed in making it to the top. He tells the students that theyThe second portion that will be used is 3 minutes after the first clip and lasts 5 minutes. This clip shows footage of an experiment. The experiment shows that a gradual increase of altitude gives the human s

Post Viewing Interaction
After showing the video clip of Sir Edmund Hillary, the teacher will discuss why the early expeditions thought it was necessary to have an oxygen tank with them in order to reach the top of Mount Everest.After the first video clip, students will be asked to look up information on expeditions of the 1920s, 1950s, and the present to compare and contrast the different clothing, equipment and size of the expedition. The teacher must instruct the students to make a chart to record their information. The students can work in a group or individually.The second clip will be viewed at the beginning of the second day of the lesson. The students will watch the clip and then discuss the adaptations that must have been made for communities to form in the higher altitude. The students will then work in groups to research cultures or animals that exist in high altitudes. This lesson plan was adapted a lesson found at the National Geographic website.

An evaluation of the video, "Oxygen, What a Gas!," can be found on this page.

Last updated on December 15, 2005
Any Questions? Email bohmanac@uwec.edu