Field Trips | Hawaiʻi Land Trust
Field Trips from Hawaiʻi Land Trust connects teachers with site-specific educators who can help coordinate and co-create curriculum for school visits to HILT preserves. Available locations span Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, Maui, and Hawaiʻi Island and include coastal, wetland, forest, cultural, and ecological landscapes for ʻāina-based learning.
Rare and Unusual Plants: Island of Hawaiʻi | Lyon Arboretum
Rare and Unusual Plants: Island of Hawaiʻi is an illustrated guide to Hawaiʻi Island’s rare and endangered native plants. It combines plant profiles with information about evolution, climate, ecosystems, cultural uses, critical habitat, invasive species, public-land management, and conservation. The resource supports botanical research, plant identification, classroom instruction, and reflection on how individuals can help protect Hawaiʻi’s unique natural heritage.
Hawaiian Curriculum Materials | Ulukau Hawaiian Electronic Library
Hawaiian Curriculum Materials is a searchable Ulukau collection that provides access to culturally grounded lessons, teacher guides, and educational publications from multiple organizations. The collection supports teaching and learning about Hawaiian language, culture, history, science, civics, environmental stewardship, and place-based community issues.
Our Nurseries | Mālama Learning Center
Our Nurseries introduces Mālama Learning Center’s Pālehua and Kapolei High School nurseries, where staff and volunteers propagate dryland-forest plants for ecological restoration, green firebreaks, schools, and communities. Visitors can watch two nursery videos and sign up for hands-on volunteer work involving plant care and nursery maintenance.
Native Plant Conservation: Meet the Plants | Waikōloa Dry Forest Initiative
Native Plant Conservation: Meet the Plants is an illustrated Waikōloa Dry Forest Initiative directory introducing native plants of Hawaiʻi’s lowland dry forests. Learners can browse plants by Hawaiian and scientific name and open individual profiles covering identification, habitat, adaptations, conservation, landscaping, and cultural uses. The page is especially useful for native plant research, educator planning, and self-guided exploration.
Healthy Climate Communities Virtual Tour | Healthy Climate Communities
Healthy Climate Communities Virtual Tour is an interactive exploration of the native forest and wetland restoration work surrounding Hāmākua Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary in Kailua, Oʻahu. Through panoramic scenes, plant information, bird photographs and calls, videos, and restoration images, learners discover how native ecosystems support wildlife, watersheds, climate resilience, and community stewardship.
Right Tree Hawaiʻi Tree Picker | Trees for Honolulu’s Future
An interactive tree picker that helps users match trees to site conditions such as sun, moisture, wind, salt exposure, and space limits. The tool also filters by preferences like tree size, native origin, edible fruit, flowers, shade, and drought tolerance, making it useful for landscape and planting planning.
Native and canoe plant trees and shrubs for Maui landscapes | Maui Nui Botanical Gardens
This Maui Nui Botanical Gardens page is a browsable collection of native and canoe plant trees and shrubs for Maui landscapes. It helps users explore plant names, growing conditions, natural range, and cultural and ecological roles, making it useful for landscape planning, plant research, and self-guided learning.
Pala Ka Hala Poster | Ke Kula ʻo Poʻowai Nui
Resources is a Ke Kula ʻo Poʻowai Nui webpage that gathers free downloadable classroom materials related to hala/pūhala, kilo observation, Hawaiian vocabulary, moʻolelo, and the water cycle. It is especially useful for educators looking for printable posters, sheets, coloring pages, and related place-based learning supports.
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.
