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Resource Title: Science Enrichment (Week 1) | Kamehameha Schools
Organization: Kamehameha Schools
Description:

This science enrichment resource provides a menu of hands-on and inquiry-based activities that students can complete at home or outdoors. Learners are instructed to choose one activity each day, with topics including living and non-living things, weather, ʻIʻiwi birds, natural textures, soil, plants, rainbows, and Hawaiʻi Island.

The packet emphasizes kilo (observation), questioning, comparing and contrasting, drawing, recording data, experimenting, researching, and discussing discoveries with ʻohana. It also includes individual worksheets for most of the activities.

Target Audience: 3rd - 5th grade, Educators, Facilitators, K-5, Pre-K - 2nd grade
Instructional Roles: Assessment, Enrichment, Main lesson, Ongoing activity
Environment: Classroom, Self-guided
Content Type: Cultural practice, STEM investigation
Type Of Engagement: Create, Investigate, Observe, Play / Explore, Reflect, Respond / Submit
Format: Images, PDF Guide
Activity:

Science Exploration and Kilo Activities

Students choose among several activities:

  • Take a Nature Micro-Hike and classify natural objects as living or non-living.
  • Track weather twice a day and look for patterns.
  • Compare adult and juvenile ʻIʻiwi and consider how their traits support survival.
  • Take a texture walk and match descriptive words to natural objects.
  • Compare soil samples collected from two locations.
  • Watch a Hawaiʻi – Moku o Keawe video and record new learning, connections, and questions.
  • Kilo a plant, draw and label its traits, and create scientific questions.
  • Learn how rainbows form and conduct a simple rainbow experiment.
Topics Covered:
  • Scientific observation/kilo
  • Living and non-living things
  • Nature exploration
  • Weather observations and patterns
  • Native Hawaiian birds
  • ʻIʻiwi traits and habitat
  • Animal adaptations
  • Natural textures
  • Soil characteristics
  • Comparing and contrasting
  • Plant traits
  • Plant observation
  • Scientific questioning
  • Rainbows and light
  • Simple experimentation
  • Hawaiʻi Island / Moku o Keawe
  • Place-based learning
  • Research and inquiry
  • ʻOhana-based learning

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