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Resource Title: Science Enrichment (Week 8) | Kamehameha Schools
Organization: Kamehameha Schools
Description:

This enrichment packet serves as a culminating reflection and review of the science learning completed during the previous weeks. Students revisit major topics including native and invasive plants and animals, inherited and variable traits, adaptations, plant and animal life cycles, the water cycle, weather and climate, and engineering activities.

The packet also asks learners to reflect on what they learned during eight weeks of distance learning, connect science learning to Hawaiian plants, animals, language, and mālama ʻāina, explore inheritance by creating a new bird breed, and use imaginative writing to consider the perspectives of animals shown in photographs.

Target Audience: 3rd - 5th grade, Educators, Facilitators, K-5
Instructional Roles: Assessment, Enrichment, Main lesson
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, Video
Activity:

Science Reflection, Traits, and Creative Review

Students choose from several end-of-unit activities:

  • Complete an End-of-Year Science Reflection.
  • Explain how learning Hawaiian words and studying native plants and animals helped them understand the place where they live.
  • Reflect on why learning about invasive and alien species is important.
  • Describe how they will continue to mālama ʻāina.
  • Review trait variation, inheritance, and selection.
  • Create a new bird breed by selecting traits from two parent birds.
  • Complete a Distance Learning Reflection about strengths and areas for improvement.
  • Look at animal photographs and create imagined thoughts for the animals using thought bubbles.
Topics Covered:
  • End-of-year science reflection
  • Mālama ʻāina
  • Native Hawaiian plants
  • Native Hawaiian animals
  • ʻAlalā
  • ʻApapane
  • Nēnē
  • Pulelehua Kamehameha
  • ʻŌhiʻa lehua
  • Koa
  • Māmaki
  • ʻOhe
  • Invasive plants and animals
  • Albizia and autograph trees
  • Rats, goats, and lizards
  • Ecosystem impacts of invasive species
  • Animal adaptations
  • Plant and animal life cycles
  • Plant structures and traits
  • Trait variation
  • Inheritance
  • Selection
  • Weather and climate
  • Ka Wai a Kāne / water cycle
  • Evaporation, condensation, and precipitation
  • Hurricanes
  • Engineering design
  • Reflection on science learning

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