For Educators: Polynesia 1&2

The Explorer - Journey 1: Intrepid Polynesian Colonists, circa 900AD - Australasia / Pacific

The Story: Old Red Eyes

The Explorer - Journey 2: Intrepid Polynesian Colonists, circa 900AD - Australasia / Pacific

The Story: The Goddess Pele

Join two families in their dugout canoes as they paddle and sail out into the mighty Pacific Ocean.  Led by Old Red Eyes, the sailor, who, without navigation instruments, feels the water current, listens to the waves, and smells the land in the distance.  He manages to bring them over 5000 miles of ocean to their destination of Hawaii, home of the land creator, the Goddess, Pele.

These 2 Journeys of Discovery include:

• the story (in both Script and Arial fonts), with ‘outside the box’ word clues and without clues for early readers
• an educator information page with anticipated learning outcomes
• a world projection map, a telescoped map of the explored area and a compass
• the clues and solution
• a single list of journeys and their explorers

The Journeys are all:

• in greyscale.
• PDF downloadable.

Our resources encourage interaction and fun while introducing locations, weather/social conditions, cities, countries, seas, oceans and continents.  They demonstrate the use of compass points for direction and the use of longitude and latitude ... your students won’t even know it’s a lesson.  In addition, they provide a portrayal of an actual historic journey - please note that the identity of the explorer is not mentioned in the story as it is part of the solution for you to share with your class!

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