Create An Everest Picture Data Set

Go to Spaaze and register, if you have not already.

Look at the categories you used for your Everest Data Set. Look for images on the Web to create a Picture Data Set using those same categories.

Find at least seven new images for each category, and add a caption with a related piece of new information to each image. Please put the new information in your own words and do not copy and paste it from another site.

When you data set is complete, copy and paste its url address into the comments section of this post.

California Fourteeners

In mountain-climbing, a “fourteener” is a mountain that is taller than 14,000 feet. Look at this list of California Fourteeners. Follow the links to each one and learn more about them.

If you had to choose one, which would you most like to climb and why? Yes, you have to choose one.

Which one of the fourteeners would you least like to climb and why?

Tall Places

What is the highest physical place — mountain, volcano, a tall building — you have ever been on?

Please describe it, when you were there, who you were with, and how you felt when you were there.

Would you go there again? Why or why not?

What are other tall places you’d like to visit? Why?
Climbers at the top of Mount Everest.

Body Disposal Form

Before a person climbs Mount Everest, they must fill-out something called a “Body Disposal Form.” In this form, the climber says what they want done with their body if they die while they’re on the mountain.

There are three choices — leave it on the mountain, have it cremated, or have it sent back home.

Please read this Body Disposal Form — you can find it by scrolling down to page nine.

If you were going to climb Everest, which choice would you make and why?

Only answer this question if you feel comfortable writing about it! It’s okay not to answer this question. Also, if you want to answer the question but don’t want it published here, that’s okay, too. Just say that in your response and Mr. Ferlazzo will be the only person to read it.