Voyages and Navigation

Learning Intentions

We are learning about early voyagers to to Aotearoa, New Zealand, and how they navigated their way.

In this inquiry we are learning to...

• use prior knowledge to identify what we already know about how early peoples travelled to New Zealand

• find information about early Māori, Pasifika and European voyages, and how they navigated they way to New Zealand

• summarise stories and information in our own words

• read and explore a variety of accounts through a variety of text types

• synthesise information from a variety of sources

• make inferences about the different ways people experienced voyage, change and arriving in a new land

• compare and contrast the different experiences of Māori, Pasifika and European voyages and arrivals

• choose which stories and experiences we are connected to

• combine our new learning to create a narrative which describes the possible journey one of our own ancestors or tupuna may have made to New Zealand.

Success Criteria

We will know we have been successful when ...

• find information about early Māori, Pasifika and European voyages to New Zealand, and how they navigated

• read and explore a variety of text types and media, and synthesis information from these different sources

• compare and contrast the different experiences of Māori, Pasifika and European voyages

• we can find and synthesize information on a topic

• we can summarise the texts and videos we watch and read

• we can discuss and ask questions about how our own ancestors and tupuna voyaged to New Zealand