9WAW - Waka Ama and Wayfinding

Students will learn and improve on waka ama paddling along with learning traditional and modern navigation skills. They will learn through contexts that are authentic, place-responsive, relevant and meaningful to them. Students can bring who they are as culturally-located individuals into the learning environment (a place- responsive approach, connecting with place and local stories).

This will be a hands-on course where we go out on field trips paddling the waka, put our navigations skills into practice, learn about the significance of the sun, moon and star constellations and learn about angles, bearings and compass directions.

This course links physical education and mathematics together in an intuitive way within an authentic place-responsive context. Hoirunga! Hoirere! Hoi!

Note: Field trips are included.