I am a student at in Uru Mānuka. In 2020 I was a year 7 and in 2021 I will be a year 8. This is a place where I will be able to share my learning with you. Please note....some work won't be edited - just my first drafts, so there may be some surface errors. I would love your feedback, comments, thoughts and ideas.
Thursday, 29 October 2020
creating a role
Navigation
This week we did navigation we had to research about the early Polynesian navigation this is our research of them
How do you find your way around? The Polynesian wayfinder navigated the Pacific ocean using the sun moon fish debris. Polynesian wayfinder used these to navigate their way around because they don't have the technology we have now they use stars, clouds and birds.
North stars are fixed points; they mark the point of the north. Southern cross showed where south was there's a line across the sky connected to 2 other stars then you look down on an angle then you have found south. The Polynesian use the stars to see where north south east and west is sometimes they use their hands to navigate where the stars are.
Big group of clouds could be above mountions so you don't know there is a mountains there. Clouds reflect islands because it could be raining or it would be over top of the water on the island. The Polynesian use the clouds to find the way the wind is blowing because the way the wind is blowing the clouds move the way the wind is blowing.
Near islands can only go so far out they will have no food and they will be tired. Birds can only fly 190km from land so they can find their way back. The Polynesian use the birds to find the island because they can see how the birds were flapping their wings because they get tired.
Wayfinders navigated by northern star fixed point and they used clouds and they followed the long tailed cuckoo. The clouds the wayfinder were looking for are stratus clouds and lenticular clouds.
Tuesday, 20 October 2020
culture DLO
Yesterday Mr Mitchell's class had to make a DLO about Tokelauan and Niuean I made a poster and put sentences in English,Tokelauan and Niuean this is my poster