In the Footsteps of an Explorer!!!!

Room 1 students have been doing a series of projects to do with an explorer, this has been called “In the Footsteps of an Explorer”.

One of the projects we did was to combine information from a biography we wrote last term and information we found out about how we would do the same expedition today. Some ideas we got to write this essay were
• From NZ to the start of the expedition.
• Equipment: clothing, navigation, weapons, tools anything else…?
• Form of transport, compare speed, comfort…?
• How have the countries/ objective/destination changed…?
Other information.

Once we had found all the information we needed we set off writing. We had an open range of choices on how to write this essay as long as we had the basics…
Summary of the original expedition, mainly when, who and the objective.
Compare the form of transport, clothing and other equipment.
Lastly we had to have a conclusion.

Lots of people did more than this, like some people wrote them actually doing the expedition and saying the differences as they went through, other people wrote in the first person, writing that they were doing the expedition after their explorer had, after this they wrote titles like Countries or Terrain etc.. writing the expedition differences for each title.