Friday, July 21, 2017

Moana (2016) Resources and Activities

Moana (2016): This Disney film blends elements of myth and culture from different parts of Polynesia. These K-12 classroom resources can help you craft lessons and learning opportunities around the movie's theme.


To restore the health of her island’s ecosystem, Moana sails from her island against her father’s wishes to return the heart of the goddess who created all life. But first she must find the trickster Maui who stole the heart and then lost it along with his magic fishhook. Disney blends elements of myth and culture from different parts of Polynesia, though much is Maori.


Moana Educators Guide
http://cdnvideo.dolimg.com/cdn_assets/a7b26e6f718f14ac7d37f86bf47770804a4b2daa.pdf

The official Disney Moana Website provides an Educator’s Guide and an Activity Packet. The Educator’s Guide ( PDF, 12.8 MB, 40 pgs.) (2-6) with background information, 4 lessons aligned to standards, and glossary. The lessons examine the hero’s journey, music and rhythm of the ocean, Wayfinding, and caring for sea turtles.

Moana Activity Pack
http://cdnvideo.dolimg.com/cdn_assets/fcc5b86eec81c5d934e5ca5e96055cea87cae402.pdf

The Activity Packet  ( PDF, 9.8 MB, 18 pgs.) has six activities as well as information on storytelling/mythology, waves, Wayfinding, and sea turtles.


Voyaging Society 

http://archive.hokulea.com/index.html

Hawaiian Voyaging Traditions houses materials related to the revival of voyaging and non-instrument navigation led by the Polynesian Voyaging Society and its voyaging canoe Hōkūle‘a.

http://www.hokulea.com/voyages/our-story/



Wayfinders: The Game

http://www.pbs.org/wayfinders/game.html

Want to know what it's like to be a wayfinder, making your way across the Pacific? Feed that curiosity, adventurer, and see if you can take an ancient Polynesian vessel across the sea.

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