Kon-Tiki Exercise

Imagine that you are beginning a project about ocean explorers and as part of that project you need to become experts about specific explorers and expeditions.

Information Resources

The following web pages contain relevant information for your learning task.

In addition, there are copies of these books in the room:

  • Ralling, C. (1990). The Kon-Tiki man. London: BBC Books.
  • Heyerdahl, T. (1960). Kon-Tiki. [Special edition for young people]. Chicago: Rand McNally.
  • Hesselberg, E. (1950). Kon-Tiki and I. New York: Rand McNally.

To help you to keep track of what you're learning about Thor Heyerdahl, there are two Inspiration diagrams already started for you:

 


This page created by Bernie Dodge. Last updated July 19, 1998.