Vendee Globe Project

Think about ….a sailor/sailors who will be traveling around the world for one hundred days on a boat and that it will be a nonstop around the world voyage, what might they wonder about…

Think of three questions that you wonder about……. when you hear this.

Write this up as a post with the heading of “100 days at sea”
Make a bulleted lists of things that you would take on a voyage like this.

These will be answered at sitesALIVE

The Vendee Globe website

Note from Lorraine Leo, you might mention that Rich was one of the sailors who has sailed to Melbourne (port Philips Bay in 2001) He was racing against the record of the clipper ship the Mandarin that sailed in the days of the Australian Gold Rush. He broke the record by a narrow margin

If you click on Press Room site in Sitesalive.com you can see some images of the earlier boat (Great American 2) in Port Philips Bay.

The first boat (the GA I capsized off the coast of Cape Horn and Rich and his coskipper were rescued by the New Zealand Pacific. a huge container ship that was sailling then…

The live webcam in France

The news updates

The Vendee Globe video on Rich Wilson

My classroom without walls ning

See Rich reading the results of the USA elections.

Amazing golden ray stingrays in the seas of Mexico

Listen to Lorraine Leo teach us about Rich Wilson

A video of the start of the race

Lorraine’s voicethreads

Grade 6

http://voicethread.com/?#u82315.b226735.i1180061
http://voicethread.com/?#u82315.b226735

Grade 4/5