Share
in the Aloha Spirit and Learn More at
The
official websites of the Hawai`i JGs and Lifeguards:
www.aloha.com/~lifeguards
and
www.co.honolulu.hi.us/esd/oceansafety/juniorguardpage.htm
Check
out the Hawai`i Department of Education Curriculum in Health
and Water Safety designed for Grades K-8 on the second website,
hosted by the County of Honolulu.
Take a
tour of the Marine
Conservation District of Hanauma Bay.
Study
more Life Lessons with Hawai`i Judge Mike Town at two of his
favorite websites, Boys
and Girls Club of Hawai`i and Polynesian
Voyaging Society.
You can
become one of Duke’s Kids by surfing the many websites
featuring this legendary waterman – just wax up your
board by entering “Duke Kahanamoku” on your favorite
search engine!
Take a
break on the North
Shore of O`ahu at its largest surf shop, just a few waves
down from Sunset Beach, the Pipeline and Waimea Bay
Assignment
Get ready
to surf Oceania – the more than 25,000 islands and islets
of 25 nations and territories stretching over the Pacific
Ocean like a special constellation of stars in the dark blue
heavens, signifying spirit and strength.
Oceania
is defined on a map by the island communities of Polynesia
and its next-shore neighbors of Melanesia and Micronesia.
Polynesia – meaning many islands – encompasses
a vast triangle from the northern tip of the Hawaiian
Islands to the southwest and southeast tips of New
Zealand and Easter Island, respectively. Melanesia and Micronesia
stretch in an arc from the north and east coasts of Australia
to points east of the Philippines. An early European explorer
of Oceania, Captain James Cook, described the vast constellation
of islands as “the largest nation on earth”. Oceania
and its peoples, cultures, languages, foods and deep ocean
awareness can be described as Ko Kai Nalu – of and belonging
to the waves.
Sources:
“Pacific Islands,” Microsoft®
Encarta® Online Encyclopdedia 2004
and An Ocean in Mind, Will Kyselka, 1987
Oceania
is home to the world’s greatest waterwomen and watermen
– many of whom serve as lifeguards on their respective
ocean and beach shores, just like the Duke. So that you may
learn with them in this blue and green classroom, your assignment
is to study all of Oceania, beginning with Hawai`i, and design
a GO-FIRST adventure-learning tour of 10 locations
in Oceania where we can learn the most in Ocean Awareness
and Lifeguarding. Since we will travel to each location in
a Hokule`a, the ancient Hawaiian voyaging canoe, you will
have to design your tour with the navigational issues of currents
and weather patterns in mind – that is, with an ocean
in your mind! To complete the assignment, list each location
in order of our Hokule`a tour, specifying the site’s
particular resources and values that inspired you to select
it as a key learning venue for your mission. And tell us what
special study and skills you will need for each location’s
culture, language(s), foods and beaches.
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