Navigation

 Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For today's blog post I will be talking about what we have been doing for Science. So for science we have been creating a piece of explanation writing based off of navigation in different places the two topics we focused on were navigation in space and how the Polynesians navigated. 

We started with a plan and then we worked on turning the planned ideas into paragraphs then we put the work altogether to make a piece of writing. Next we got paired up my partner was Felicity and we had to read each other's piece of writing correcting any mistakes we saw. After we had looked at each other's work we looked at a writing rubric and rated each others work. We also rated our own work to see what level we think that we are at and Felicity and I both compared our ratings.

Here is my piece of explanation writing...

Do you know about how people used to navigate without using electronics? Back in the day people didn’t have devices to help navigate, so they had to go off of what was in front of them.

Some of the ways that the Polynesians used to navigate are with stars. They did this by learning about the different constellations and star shapes. For example if they were facing the southern cross they would know they were heading south. They also used birds because birds never travel that far away from land so when they saw either birds or just a single bird they would know they were near land. 

Another thing they used to navigate was the position of the sun. There are a few more ways one of them being the height of the clouds. They also navigated off of the current of the water and which way the boat was swaying the current of the water is the way the water moves. One more way is the swell which has to do with the shape of the wave. 

Some of the ways that astronauts use to navigate is also the positioning of the stars. A couple more ways that they navigated was with morse code and certain flag positions. There are many similarities between these two ways of navigating, one of them being that neither of the ways use technology and the other reason being they both use the star in order to navigate. 

In conclusion navigation takes a lot of skill and time it must have been hard for the polynesians and astronauts.