Polynesian Wayfinding Geography Lesson: Exploring the Pacific, Grades 5-8

How did Polynesian voyagers find tiny islands across the largest ocean on Earth with no compass and no charts? By reading the stars, the swells and the birds. Students find the Pacific on a world map, then learn ten features: the Hawaiian Islands, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Rapa Nui (Easter Island), the Polynesian Triangle's center at Tahiti, the Marquesas Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Melanesia, Micronesia and the Pacific Ocean.

What's inside

• 15 slides, with speaker notes on all 15
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Student worksheet, 2 pages
• Answer key, 1 page

Answer key included

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