Expert: Chaz Powell
Weaving in mindsets and Univeral Constructs, these systems of survivial depend on the ability to pivot and adapt along with the willingness to choose a different route. We lean in to Chaz Powell's experiences and stories, and listen to understand how mindsets play a role in the success of any system.
As we continue this journey, we reach out to experts such as Chaz Powell and Christina Soontornvat. Combining these insights with the literacy and social studies concepts and standards explored with the past, how can be better understand how ideas cycle through time, new layers are added through advancements in all aspects of life, and new variables challenge our society to apply what we learned from the past to build new ideas and solution for today.
Explorer of the Year 2021 (Scientific Exploration Society)
Primary Source Connection
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Students Engaged: Learning From Others
6th Grade students at Forest Grove Elementary furiously taking notes, sketchnoting, developing questions, and connecting the insights from Chaz Powell to the overall connections of the larger project at hand.
Talking with Chaz
Note: If you open up the video to YouTube all the timestamps are hyperlinks to the parts in the video
00:50 - Who is Chaz Powell?
03:30 - What does it take to be an explorer? What is the difference between an explorer and traveler?
The power of determination, mentally tough, humor, and taking life with a pinch of salt.
Essentials of food and water and things you don’t think about needed such as weather.
09:00 - What tools/strategies/advice for the real world does Chaz think are important for us to consider?
Charles Darwin “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.”
Chaz Insight - Keep moving forward in a positive way
11:40 - Story #1 Zambezi Gorges
20:50 - Chaz Insights from story: Don’t become too confident, bite off more than you chew, think smarter, and other people.
23:00 - Story #2 Mozambique Visitor
Chaz Insights - Carry on and keep moving forward, what is my purpose?, understanding in moments of confusion and miscommunication
30:45 - Story #2 Burma Bus Neighbor
Chaz Insights - importance of respecting cultures and people, need to really understand yourself, power of humanity, and stepping back to analyze behaviors
36:30 - Survival requires the right mindset, be grateful, see the positives, and learn to adapt and be flexible
38:20 - Any insights or perspectives about the soccer team who were trapped in the tunnel?
Chaz Insights - power of mindset, keeping others positive, sense of humor is key
40:30 - How do you use other explorers as motivation?
41:36 - How did you learn to be an explorer and learn how to survive to live out of a backpack?
43:10 - Can you share what type of animals you have encountered in your travels?