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Wayfinding

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Grade 6

Developed by Cat Fuller, ʻIolani School

  • Overview

    • How will you find YOUR way on your voyage? What problems will you encounter? How will you solve them? Wayfinding encompasses all of the ways in which people and animals orient themselves in physical space and navigate from place to place. Wayfinding is a tool to come to a more intimate understanding of the islands and ocean we live with. This unit will enable students to see that living in a safe and sustainable island environment takes a whole community.

  • Lessons
    • Orientation: Where am I right now?
    1. Polynesian Migrations, Canoes and Wayfinding
    2. Map – Polynesian Triangle
    3. Rethinking Polynesian Origins: Human Settlement of the Pacific
    4. Founding the Polynesian Voyaging Society: Building and Naming Hōkūleʻa
    5. Where Am I? – Reflective Writing
    Route decisions: Can I find the way to where I want to go?
    1. “E-X-P-L-O-R-E” Activity
    2. Reasons
      1. Why I Left My Island
      2. Paʻao From Samoa
      3. Two-Way Voyaging after Settlement
    3. The Voyage – Crew
      1. Rules of Conduct and Fostering the Right Attitude
      2. Insuring A Safe Canoe and Crew
      3. Choosing a Crew
      4. The Spirit of ‘Ohana and the Polynesian Voyagers
      5. The Right Qualities
      6. Crew Positions
      7. Crew Responsibilities
      8. Captain’s Responsibilities
    4. The Voyage – Canoe
      1. Canoe Diagram: Hōkūleʻa
      2. Design of Hōkūleʻa
      3. Design of Hawaiʻi Loa
      4. Building a Canoe, Part I
      5. Building a Canoe, Part II
      6. Building a Canoe, Evaluation
    5. The Voyage – Resources
      1. What Will You Bring?
      2. Ms. Fuller’s Item List
      3. Packing List–What to Bring on Sail/Voyage
      4. Clothing
    Mental mapping: Are my experiences consistent and understandable enough to know where I’ve been and to predict where I should go next?
    1. A New Society
      1. Government and Law – Pre-Contact Society
      2. Society and Class – Hawaiian Royalty
      3. Economy and Sustainability – The Story of Haloa: A Hawaiian Creation Story and Wai Ola: The Water of Life
      4. Religion – In the Beginning: Hawaiian Gods
      5. Culture and Innovation – Lono, Makahiki and Cook’s Deification
      6. ʻA New Societyʻ Paper Assignment
    2. Issues
      1. Tangi’ia and Karika
      2. “The Fate of Easter Island”
    3. The Voyage – Course line
      1. Diagram – Windward Ability of Canoes
      2. Diagram – Average winds and currents
      3. Diagram – Northeast and Southeast Trade winds
      4. Diagram – Major Currents in the Pacific Ocean
      5. “Sail Planning – Long Voyages”
      6. Plan Your Voyage
      7. Plotting the Course
    Closure: Can I recognize that I have arrived in the right place?
    1. My “Voyage”
    2. Where Will I Be?
    3. Works Cited
  • Assessments
    1. Assessments
    2. Critique Sheets