Professional Development | Healthy Climate Communities
Professional Development from Healthy Climate Communities offers free annual PDE3 courses and customized educator workshops focused on Hawaiʻi-based climate science and resilience. Teachers explore Earth systems, local climate impacts, stewardship, and ways to adapt place-based environmental resources for their students.
School Visits | Healthy Climate Communities
School Visits from Healthy Climate Communities offers free, interactive climate and environmental education at schools and community locations. Activities are adapted to participants’ learning goals and can include native plant and bird studies, ecosystem restoration, climate science, Earth systems, traditional plant practices, and community-based climate solutions.
Field Trips | Healthy Climate Communities
Field Trips from Healthy Climate Communities offers free, place-based educational experiences at Hāmākua Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary. Students, teachers, and community members explore climate science, native ecosystems, restoration, and community resilience through field activities, longer-term projects, and conservation-focused internships.
Huakaʻi | Waikōloa Dry Forest Initiative
Field Trips | Waikōloa Dry Forest Initiative
ʻĀina Explorers Summer Camp | Waikōloa Dry Forest Initiative
ʻĀina Explorers Summer Camp is a free, place-based summer program from the Waikōloa Dry Forest Initiative for upper elementary students on Hawaiʻi Island. Through hands-on outdoor learning, campers explore geology, native birds, cultural stories, and important places while building deeper connections to ʻāina. The program supports environmental stewardship and lifelong learning through immersive, multi-day experiences.
Future Foresters | Waikōloa Dry Forest Initiative
Future Foresters is a place-based after-school stewardship program from the Waikōloa Dry Forest Initiative for elementary students in Waikōloa. Through hiking, restoration work, nursery care, and community service, students learn about dry forest ecology, native species, and conservation within a biocultural context. The program builds long-term relationships to place and encourages keiki to become active stewards of the ʻāina.
Merwin Conservancy Visits: School & Community Groups
These field trips are offered by Merwin Conservancy, connecting visitors to the place and its plants.
Educators & Students Website | Hawaiʻi Kāhuli
Educational materials on kāhuli (tree snails) and their habitat.
