This resource is a K–6 curriculum page centered on māmaki, a Hawaiian endemic plant with ecological, cultural, and medicinal importance. The page offers a downloadable full curriculum plus free classroom posters and frames māmaki as a nature-based way to teach sustainability, healthy beverages, and agriculture-based entrepreneurship in Hawaiʻi. It is designed as an experiential curriculum that connects plant knowledge to science, health, agriculture, and natural resource stewardship.
Māmaki-Based Sustainability and Garden Learning
Students use māmaki as an anchor plant to explore Hawaiian ecosystems, plant life cycles, how plants arrived in Hawaiʻi, pollinators like the Kamehameha butterfly, kilo observation, and healthy beverage ideas. The page also supports classroom and garden activities through downloadable posters and the full curriculum.
