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Student Presentation (No formal paper)

//U’i Corr, Graduate Student, Educational Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA,// sasilyc@YAHOO.COM
 * Polynesian Navigation Through the Use of Double Hulled Canoes**

Polynesian navigation through the use of double hulled c anoes has been practiced for many years throughout the Pacific Ocean. Today, however, this ancient art is lacking and students are becoming more aware of how migration took place thousands of years ago throughout the Pacific Islands. Students specifically at the middle school level are only being i introduced to a fraction of the information. They are being taught the ancient art of Polynesian navigation only to go along with the focus of Hawaiian and Pacific Island studies in their social studies curriculum. Will technology help students to learn more about Polynesian navigation thru the use of double hulled canoes? What effect will using online modules with middle school students have on their understanding of Polynesian voyaging through the use of double hulled canoes? With internet searches, Power Point presentations, latitudinal and longitudinal plotting of coordinates, and video recordings, students will learn about and report their findings on Polynesian navigation through the use of double hulled canoes.

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