Welcome to another post on my blog. This is the first day for the Summer Learning Journey 2019-20. If you don't know, the Summer Learning Journey is a holiday programme where we do blog posts over the summer holidays. This is because we don't drop down in our reading and writing. Because over the holidays, we have so much fun and not do any reading or writing, so we drop down in our scores.
The first week of this Summer Learning Journey is about Physical Limits - Sport and Exploration.
Activity 2: Discovering Aotearoa [4 points]
The first week of this Summer Learning Journey is about Physical Limits - Sport and Exploration.
Activity 2: Discovering Aotearoa [4 points]
Many people believe that Kupe was the first explorer to discover Aotearoa, New Zealand in about 1300. He navigated his way by waka to Aotearoa from Hawaiki using traditional Polynesian navigation techniques - just like Nainoa Thompson (from Activity 1) did much later on. Legend says that he followed a great octopus all the way to Aotearoa/New Zealand and finally destroyed it in Cook Strait (the water between the North and South Islands).
Many years later, a Dutch explorer from The Netherlands, Abel Tasman, was exploring the Pacific Ocean when he came across New Zealand. He thought that he was the first person to ‘discover’ the country (despite the fact that Māori already lived in New Zealand!) and made the claim in 1642 that he had ‘discovered’ a new land. His exploration of New Zealand inspired many other European explorers to follow his lead and travel to Oceania.
Kupe and Abel Tasman were two different men from two very different backgrounds (cultures) who shared a common interest - exploration.
For this activity, we would like you to think about your own experiences and your own cultural background. Where does your family come from? Do they come from Europe like Abel Tasman, Polynesia like Kupe, or somewhere else?
My family is from India.
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| Flag of India Credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_India.svg#/media/File:Flag_of_India.svg |
About India: It has the second-highest population, 1,372,640,525 (1.3 billion).
I hope you like my post. Comment down below if you've learnt something new!! Have a cool day!! Bye!!
I hope you like my post. Comment down below if you've learnt something new!! Have a cool day!! Bye!!
