Past Exploration

Introduction

Our new concept learning is around the idea of 'Exploration'.

We will be looking to the past to discover explorer's that have shaped the world we live in with their discoveries.

We will be looking at the present compare and contrast modern day explorers to those from the past.

And finally, then you become the explorer of the future.  What makes you curious.  What discoveries will your explorations uncover?

Task

Watch this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqFT98Jrig4

Complete question 1 on your webquest sheet.

Now you will choose one of these explorers to further investigate.  Choose one that you are curious about.

We will need 5 people only to investigate each explorer.  Check in with the teacher and tell them who you are researching and why.

Process

Step 1:Choose your explorer.

Click on the link next to their name to watch a small clip about them.

Step 2: Click on the link to the webpage about your explorer, you may find others to help you if you need.

Edmond Hillary https://www.ducksters.com/biography/explorers/edmund_hillary.php

Jacques Costeau https://kids.kiddle.co/Jacques_Cousteau

Jean Batten https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/Jean-Batten/630248

Peter Blake https://sirpeterblaketrust.org/sir-peters-history

Kupe https://teara.govt.nz/en/first-peoples-in-maori-tradition/page-6

 

Step 3: Answer these Questions: using the appropriate website for your explorer.  Use the webquest recording sheet you have glued into your concept book.

 

  1. Where did your explorer come from?
  2. When did he or she explore?
  3. How did they travel, explore?
  4. Where did he or she go? Map their journey.
  5. Why did they go on their journey? What were they hoping to find?
  6. What did they find?
  7. How is this explorer remembered?
  8. Thinking back to our visit by Brooke Neal and how she had a mantra of 'I am calm. I am confident'.  If you had of been this explorer, what Mantra do you think would have inspired their discovery?

Enjoy your Learning Journey. 

Evaluation

On completion of this web quest, you will gather with other students who have researched the same explorer.  Your job is to report back to the rest of the class about what you have learnt about your explorer.  You can do this as a drama, news report (filmed), slide show or any other way you can think of that is appropriate.

When all the groups have delivered their presentation we will have a Kahoot to see how much we have learnt together.

Conclusion

Now we have looked into some explorers of the past, we can think about what these people have in common. Together we will create a compare and contrast of these explorers.

People become explorers for many reasons. Some like adventure. Some are scientists. Some are looking for riches. Some want to make new discoveries. Some are missionaries. Whatever their reason, explorers have some important things in common - they face the unknown, they suffer hardships, and some never make it back to tell their tales.

Thinking back to the question posed in the  'Holden advertisement clip' .... Who are the modern day explorers?.... we will find out next week!

 

Teacher Page

Will need ear phones, concept books and prints of https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B3BETs8hpdnqr0UeA2vAivoD8UNi25ThdOmOhGUy7h8/edit to complete this activity.

Evaluation will be participation in the group presentation. 

Kahoot to cover all explorers to consolidate group learning.

In persuasive writing they will use our four sentence structures to persuade the Prime Minister that this explorer deserves a National holiday in their name.

Together create a complex venn diagram of these explorers.  This will act as a model for children next week when they compare and contrast past to modern explorers.

Week 3-10 children will become the explorers of the future and follow their own curiosities.