Key Question(s):1. Why is the Totem Pole in Tasmania

considered a “Fantastic Place” by climbers and others?

DO NOW:

Where is this place? Write it down – can you describe where it is? Lesson Objective:

•To investigate and explain how the Tasmanian Totem Pole was formed.

The Totem Pole

Starter: Animated learning

• Stick the diagram of the caves, arches, stacks and stumps into your books. Watch the animation of how stacks are formed like the totem pole in Tasmania. Annotate and explain this on your diagram.

How are caves, arches, stacks and stumps formed?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Th56dhs4Fc

Caves, arches, stacks and stumps

NB: On Friday 13th February 1998 a climber called Paul Prichard was seriously and permanently injured climbing the Totem Pole – so it is very risky and dangerous.

http://danandjo2007.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/tasmania-4-totem-pole.html

Main Task: Blog, story, poem

Imagine you have visited and climbed the Totem Pole in Tasmania including the hiking. Write a blog, short story or a poem about this. Include both the exciting factors and the dangers of your adventure.

USE:• the video clip and the information sheet to help you. http://www.rockclimbing.com/videos/Trad/The_Totem_Pole_Tasmania_386.html

The Totem Pole is part of the Tasman National Park, as it is part of the many miles of rugged coastline and diverse forest ecosystems, which contain several species of rare plant. The park also includes many small islands and the southern end of the park has some of the highest and most spectacular cliffs in Australia. The National Park is a very popular area for tourism as it is within a few hours drive of the main city on the island, Hobart.

The Totem Pole is located in Cape Hauy, Tasman National Park, Tasmania, Australia. This landmark stack formation is 65 metres high and 4 metres wide at the base. It is an example of the rock type Dolerite - a form of basalt, which is an igneous rock.

It was first climbed in 1968 by John Ewbank and Allan Keller with the use of aid. The atmospheric pole was first climbed free via the aptly named Free Route, graded 25 and climbed by Simon Mentz and Steve Monks in 1995. The adventurous aspect of the Pole make climbing here all the more memorable: after a two hour hike climbers abseil to sea level, then swing out to the pillar to reach the belay ledge and start of the routes. At the top climbers return to mainland via a Tyrolean traverse using the abseil rope.In 1998 British climber Paul Pritchard suffered a nigh fatal fall on the Pole and His story is told in the highly recommended award winning "The Totem Pole and a Whole New Adventure“.

Information

http://www.planetmountain.com/english/News/shownews1.lasso?l=2&keyid=36995

Plenary:Totem Pole:

Voting time: X factor or the Z factor?

It has the X factor

It has the Z factor