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 6) | Kamehameha Schools
Science Enrichment is a backyard-based science enrichment packet that connects animal and plant investigations with mālama ʻāina. Students explore gardening, lizards, bird nests, flower development, water movement through plants, backyard birds, and habitat change while practicing kilo, questioning, prediction, experimentation, and environmental stewardship 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 4) | Kamehameha Schools
Science enrichment is a place-based science enrichment packet that encourages students to practice kilo and investigate their immediate environment. Through activities involving plant roots, Hawaiian seasons, habitats, invasive species, weather, shadows, and backyard birds, learners observe natural patterns, make predictions, draw and record evidence, and consider how environmental changes affect Hawaiʻi’s ecosystems.
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.
Science Enrichment (Week 2) | Kamehameha Schools
Science enrichment is a place-based science enrichment packet that uses kilo, questioning, prediction, comparison, research, and hands-on environmental action to help students explore their home and school environments. Activities address native Hawaiian birds, plant traits, weather, invasive species, mosquitoes, and mālama ʻāina while encouraging students to learn and take action alongside their ʻohana.
Science Enrichment (Week 1) | Kamehameha Schools
Science Enrichment is a hands-on packet that encourages learners to practice kilo, inquiry, comparison, experimentation, and reflection through activities involving plants, animals, weather, soil, light, and the local environment. Students can complete one investigation per day and use the included worksheets to draw, record observations, answer questions, and share discoveries with their ʻohana.
Writing: Step by Step – Mālama ʻĀina | Kamehameha Schools
Writing: Step by Step – Mālama ʻĀina is a Kindergarten-level writing activity that introduces young learners to the idea of caring for the ʻāina. Students discuss the meaning of mālama ʻāina, brainstorm actions using words or pictures, write an “I can mālama ʻāina by…” sentence, and share their work with family.
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.
Ka Nohona Ahupuaʻa: Life in the Ahupuaʻa | Kamehameha Schools
Ka Nohona Ahupuaʻa: Life in the Ahupuaʻa is an interactive Kamehameha Schools learning experience that introduces keiki to the Hawaiian ahupuaʻa system. Through child-friendly digital exploration, learners develop familiarity with ahupuaʻa terminology, mauka-to-makai relationships, life within the land system, and connections between people, ʻāina, and natural resources. It is particularly well suited for preschool and early-elementary Hawaiian culture-based education.
