Polynesian Navigation Inquiry - Nik's Base Group

This week we've been studying the Polynesian navigators Kupe, Whatonga and Tupaia. Three very similar men from three very different times! Here's a three-way Venn diagram we made together today to compare them.

We are planning to make an information board for the school about Polynesian Navigation. We think it will have a map to show where the first navigators went, a timeline of navigation events in Aotearoa, background art inspired by our view and information on Kupe, Whatonga and Tupaia.

We spent some time outside imagining what it might have been like to see a waka hourua sailing past. How would our view have been different?

We plotted the journeys of Kupe, Whatonga and his sons Tara and Tautoki on a map after reading and hearing their stories.

We discussed when navigation events in Aotearoa happened in relation to one another.