This site is after a PBS special on NOVA, "Secrets of Easter Island". Archaeologists and a crew tried to find out how the huge statues were created and physically moved around the island. If you can't find the information here that you...

In this activity, you'll look at a single event-the collapse of the population on an island-from different points of view. You're going to try to make sense of what happened there, and you'll do this using an interdisciplinary approach....

Easter Island is famous for its stone statues of human figures, known as moai (meaning "statue"). Read about the intriguing history of these statues.

Learn about the location, history, and language of Easter Island.

This site provides an extensive examination of Easter Island and its history along with numerous photographs.

Students investigate how the senses are used to make observations about objects and things in the environment.

NOVA ferrets out long-forgotten secrets of architects and engineers of the early civilizations. Content focuses on the trebuchets of medieval Europe, the pharaoh's obelisks of ancient Egypt, the moai statues of Easter Island, the...

Gives some basic geographic and historical information on Easter Island located in the South East Pacific. Includes photos.

Gives some basic geographic and historical information on Easter Island located in the South East Pacific. Includes photos.

Elementary students will appreciate these stories of how man's appearance on planet Earth affected all creatures and life!

A collection of links to various maps of Chile- political, relief, topographic, economic etc. and a map of Easter Island as well as other islands.

Archaeologists get very excited when they find pieces of Lapita pottery. Why? Because the sequential depositing of potsherds (fragments of pottery) in an easterly direction across the island groups of the Pacific has become the pivotal...

Virtually visit Chile with this offering from the official tourism corporation, a private non-profit entity, whose mission is to promote Chilean travel industry internationally. Find out about Chilean activities, culture, weather,...

A facsimile of the eastern part of Champlain's map (1612) showing the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton, and Nova Scotia.

Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon. A society of Polynesian origin that settled there c. A.D. 300 established a powerful, imaginative and original tradition of monumental...

A map from 1903 of the Canadian province of Newfoundland, showing cities, towns and ports, railways, lakes, rivers, and coastal features, as well as the coastal districts of White Bay, Bonne Bay, Bay of Exploits, Bonavista Bay, St....