Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death: Plant Heroes Beginner Activity Book | American Public Gardens Association
Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death: Plant Heroes Beginner Activity Book is an illustrated educational resource that teaches children about ʻōhiʻa lehua, Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death, and ways to slow the spread of plant disease. Through a comic story, puzzles, coloring pages, vocabulary activities, and a Plant Heroes pledge, learners explore forest health and practical actions such as cleaning shoes and tools, avoiding movement of contaminated soil or plant material, and watching for signs of plant problems.
Nutrient Cycle Lesson Plan | City and County of Honolulu
The Nutrient Cycle Lesson Plan is a hands-on Grades 2–3 science lesson from the City and County of Honolulu’s Honolulu Botanical Gardens that introduces decomposers and their role in recycling nutrients through ecosystems. Students use clay to model leaves, decomposers, decomposition, and nutrient return while exploring habitats, scavengers, and the importance of often-overlooked organisms in healthy ecosystems.
Science Enrichment (Week 7) | Kamehameha Schools
Science Enrichment is a packet connecting backyard investigation with Hawaiian cultural knowledge and engineering. Students study Green Anoles, ʻohe as a waʻa plant and traditional resource, introduced backyard birds, adaptations to rain, gardening, and heʻe hōlua while practicing kilo, prediction, research, design, testing, and reflection with their ʻohana.
Science Enrichment (Week 5) | Kamehameha Schools
Science Enrichment is a place-based science enrichment packet that connects backyard investigation with Hawaiian environmental learning. Students explore Ka Wai a Kāne and the water cycle, kōlea migration and seasonal changes, bird nests, lizard traits, and mālama ʻāina while practicing observation, prediction, modeling, engineering, and scientific communication. The activities encourage learners to investigate their own surroundings alongside their ʻohana and apply science to real environmental questions.
Science Enrichment (Week 3) | Kamehameha Schools
Science enrichment is a place-based science enrichment packet focused on plants, pollination, invasive species, and mālama ʻāina. Students practice kilo, observe roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and life cycles, investigate albizia and bee–plant relationships, track weather, and use drawings, research, and evidence-based explanations to communicate their learning.
Leaf Rubbing Collection | Kamehameha Schools
Leaf Rubbing Collection is a Kamehameha Schools ʻohana activity that encourages keiki and families to explore plants around their home and neighborhood. Learners collect different leaves, observe their shapes and textures, make crayon rubbings, identify the plants when possible, and combine their work into a personal plant collection book. The activity blends creativity, plant observation, outdoor exploration, and respect for the natural environment.
Meakanu (Plant) Diary | Kamehameha Schools
Meakanu (Plant) Diary is a Kamehameha Schools ʻohana activity that encourages keiki and families to explore and document the plants growing around their homes. Learners practice kilo by observing plants closely, recording their names and stories, and creating diary cards with drawings, leaf rubbings, photographs, and plant facts. The activity connects plant science, Hawaiian cultural knowledge, family learning, and mālama ʻāina.
Hawaiian Native Plants Coloring Book | National Tropical Botanical Garden
Hawaiian Native Plants Coloring Book is a National Tropical Botanical Garden resource that helps learners explore native Hawaiian plants through coloring pages and short plant profiles. It introduces native plant diversity, traditional uses, endemism, and conservation in a format that is especially accessible for younger learners and classroom enrichment.
Connecting with Trees: A Multi-Sensory Multi-Day Program | Trees for Honolulu’s Future
Connecting with Trees is a multi-day K–2 curriculum from Trees for Honolulu’s Future that helps young children build a relationship with trees through songs, sensory observation, gratitude activities, recycled-art projects, Hawaiian vocabulary, and drawing. The lessons combine classroom and outdoor experiences and encourage students to notice what trees do for people and how people can care for trees in return.
Forest Friends Coloring Book | Hawaiʻi Forest Institute
Forest Friends is a coloring book from the Hawaiʻi Forest Institute that introduces learners to native Hawaiian animals and the habitats they depend on. Through illustrated pages and short species descriptions, it teaches about endemism, ecology, cultural significance, and conservation. The resource is especially well suited for elementary classroom or home learning.
