Today Year Four investigated how early Māori journeyed across the Pacific Ocean / Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa.
We began by brainstorming all the vessels we could think of in our own Google doc. Some of our ideas included: cruise ship, jet ski, house boat, boat, fishing vessel, pontoon, paddle board, cabin cruiser, cargo ship, yacht, sea plane, dinghy, raft, submarine, waka, steam boat, hovercraft, pirate ship, kayak, sea plane, canoe, ferry, water taxi, paddle boat, bumper boat, speed boat, sea biscuit
Next we watched this video and brainstormed what we had learnt:
Jake "Polynesian ancestors found lots of islands"
Logan "Captain Cook found Aotearoa in 1769"
Evie "The first ships were guided by stars, sun and wind"
Ava "The first person to find Aotearoa was Kupe"
Micah "Early settlers came to live here from Europe 500 years after Maori"
Ebony "People came from around the world to New Zealand"
Gursev "They navigated using the stars, sun, birds, wind and wave"
Hector "Whalers and sealers came to New Zealand"
Savannah "NZ has sailed in the America's Cup"
Sharmaine "Captain Cook came to Aotearoa 500 years after Kupe"
Maddi "Kupe went back to tell people he'd discovered New Zealand"
We also read about Te Rangiora the master navigator Te Rangiora the master navigator
After our break we used A4 paper to design our own waka and then tested if they could float.
Next time we are looking forward to seeing how we can be kiatiaki for our moana and take part in a "Change Campaign"
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