Maps & Explorers

HSIE Term 3, 2014

Exploring Map Skills

"Reading" Photographs and Maps

Read pages 2-5 of the Oxford Atlas Project 2. Do the activities in the top right corner of pages 3 & 5.
Watch the first episode of The Map Makers DVD
Use the Cat-in-the-hat map making tool to create a map of a room in our house or draw a map free-hand of our house or yard.

Using a Key & Different kinds of maps

Read pages 6-9 of the OAP. Do the activities in the top right corner of pages 7 & 9.
Watch the second episode of The Map Makers  DVD.
Add a Key to the map you drew last week.

Using Direction & Grids, Latitude & Longitude

Read pages 10-13 of the OAP. Do the activities in the top right vorner pf pages 11 & 13.
Add a north point to your map. Also add a grid and co-ordinates if you wish. 
Play the compass game 
Watch the last episode of The Map Makers DVD.

Great Explorers

Indigenous people and Explorers of Australia

Read pages 70-73 of the OAP. 

Read "A Southern Continent?" in Great Explorers, Journeys into the unknown by land, sea and air by Stuart Ross (page 40). Do you remember going on the replica of the Endeavour?

Look on the globe to see where Captain Cook travelled.

What do you think was the most interesting thing about Captain Cook's journey?

Novels to read this week:
The First Voyage by Arthur Baillie
Stowaway by Karen Hesse
Captain Cook and the Endeavor by Mike Lefroy
The True Adventures of John Nicol by Julian Bruere

Leif Eriksson Viking Explorer

Read "The Mystery of Vinland" in Great Explorers (page 14).  Look on the globe to follow Leif's journey.

Do you remember the Viking ship we saw at the Maritime Museum?

Leif's adventures were recorded as stories called Sagas. Write your own tale about an imagined or real journey.

Novels to read this week:
They came on Viking Ships  by Jackie French

Marco Polo and the Silk Road

Read "Riding the Silk Road" in Great Explorers (page 20).
What was The Silk Road? Look on the globe to see where the Silk Road went.  
What was so special about silk?
Watch the video.

Books to read this week:
Following the trail of Marco Polo, Geronimo Stilton
Marco Polo by Robert Strathloch
Marco Polo for kids by Janis Herbert
Marco Polo: the boy who travelled the Medieval World by Nick McCarty
Marco Polo by Zachary Kent

Christopher Columbus

Read "Right around the world" in Great Explorers (page 32).

What "new" technology did Columbus have in his ship? Look on the globe to see where Columbus travelled. Why were spices important?

Watch the video

Play the Walk the Plank quiz game 

Books to read this week:
Christopher Columbus, explorer of the New World by Peter Crisp
Christopher Columbus: the voyage that changed the world by Emma Carlson
 
Man on the Moon

Read "Man on the Moon" in Great Explorers (page 76).  How would you feel being the first people to land on the moon?

Watch the video of the moon landing and first steps on the moon.
 
Play the explore Mars game
Do the jig-saw puzzle here

Deep Sea and High Sky exploration

Read "Above and Below" in  Great Explorers (page 60).

Watch this news footage of the Balloon expedition from 1932.

Watch the video about the dive to the Mariana Trench.

Play the Deep Sea Treasure game

Which explorer's journey do you think was the most interesting? Are there any you wish you could do?