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.
Mākua Timeline | Science in Hawaiʻi
Mākua Timeline is an illustrated historical resource tracing important changes in Mākua from early Hawaiian settlement through Western contact, World War II, Hawaiʻi statehood, and military control of the valley. It supports classroom investigation and reflection on how historical and political events have shaped Mākua’s land, people, and community relationships.
Climate Curriculum | Healthy Climate Communities
Climate Curriculum is a free Healthy Climate Communities resource hub offering standards-based climate and Earth-science units for fifth-grade, middle-school, and high-school classrooms. Teachers can download guides, workbooks, worksheets, answer keys, presentations, graphs, and images covering Earth systems, climate impacts, energy solutions, and the carbon cycle.
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.
Teacher Resources | National Tropical Botanical Garden
Teacher Resources is a National Tropical Botanical Garden webpage that gathers videos, worksheets, coloring books, and teacher enrichment opportunities into one education hub. It supports classroom planning around tropical plants, Hawaiian culture, and local ecosystems, with resources such as Sprout Learning, Tropical Plant Coloring Books, and the Hawaii Education Series.
Māmaki Ola | Center for Getting Things Started
Māmaki Ola is a K–6 curriculum resource from the Center for Getting Things Started that uses māmaki to teach sustainability, healthy beverages, and agriculture-based entrepreneurship in Hawaiʻi. The page includes a full downloadable curriculum and free posters on topics like māmaki life cycle, pollinators, kilo, and plant arrival. It works well for classroom, garden, and place-based learning centered on a culturally important native plant.
The Hawaiian Garden | Kōkua Hawaiʻi Foundation
The Hawaiian Garden: Grade 4 Native Hawaiian Plant Profiles is a Kōkua Hawaiʻi Foundation resource that introduces native Hawaiian plants through short garden-based profile sheets. Each page combines plant identification, habitat and planting information, uses, and cultural context to support school garden learning. The resource is especially useful for grade 4 plant study, garden planning, and place-based learning.
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.
Propagating Native Plants: Introduction | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Propagating Native Plants: Introduction is a restoration-focused guide to growing native Hawaiian plants for conservation and outplanting projects. It covers seed and cutting collection, nursery construction, sowing, transplanting, field nurseries, pest management, and phytosanitation, and includes practical appendices for production scheduling and common mesic native species. The resource is especially useful for restoration planning, propagation training, and conservation education.
