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.
Community Forests Passport | City and County of Honolulu
Botanical Gardens Passport is a self-guided garden exploration activity from the City and County of Honolulu. Visitors use the passport across five botanical gardens to search for trees, flowers, leaves, roots, wildlife, sounds, colors, and other natural features while learning about community forests and responsible care for plants.
Leaf Love | City and County of Honolulu
Leaf Love is a visual plant-identification resource from the Honolulu Botanical Gardens that introduces common leaf shapes through labeled illustrations. Learners can use the chart to compare leaf forms, build botanical vocabulary, and support observation and classification activities in the classroom, garden, or field.
I Love Flowers | City and County of Honolulu
I Love Flowers is a visual flower-identification resource from the Honolulu Botanical Gardens that introduces nine common flower forms through labeled photographs. Learners can use the chart to compare flower shapes, build botanical vocabulary, and support plant observation in the classroom, garden, or field.
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.
Manu, the Boy Who Loved Birds | University of Hawaiʻi Press
Manu, the Boy Who Loved Birds is an author-read children’s story exploring extinction, Hawaiian forest birds, cultural identity, and conservation. Through Manu’s curiosity about the extinct ʻōʻō bird for which he was named, young learners discover connections among native wildlife, healthy forests, Hawaiian heritage, and the actions people can take to protect Hawaiʻi’s remaining species.
Talk Story on the Land | Hawaiʻi Land Trust (HILT)
Talk Story on the Land is Hawaiʻi Land Trust’s series of free guided hikes that connect participants with conservation, history, culture, and biology at protected wahi pana across Hawaiʻi. Participants explore preserves with knowledgeable guides, observe native ecosystems and cultural landscapes, and at some sites take part in stewardship activities such as planting, invasive-species removal, seed collection, and kilo.
Makalawena Virtual Huakaʻi | Kamehameha Schools
Makalawena Virtual Huakaʻi is an interactive Kamehameha Schools learning experience that gives students virtual access to the cultural, historical, and environmental resources of Makalawena in North Kona, Hawaiʻi Island. Through 360-degree video, photographs, interviews, and moʻolelo, learners explore coastal ecosystems, anchialine pools, traditional land and resource use, native wildlife, and stewardship while developing a deeper connection to this wahi pana.
Mālama ʻĀina Daily Challenge 2 | Kamehameha Schools
Mālama ʻĀina Daily Challenge 2 is a Kamehameha Schools home-learning activity that encourages students to practice mālama, aloha, and kōkua through daily environmental stewardship. Learners spend time improving the ʻāina around their home through gardening, weeding, composting, planting, or cleanup, then journal about what they did, how the place changed, and why caring for ʻāina matters to themselves and their ʻohana.
Mālama ʻĀina Daily Challenge 1 | Kamehameha Schools
Mālama ʻĀina Daily Challenge 1 is a home-learning activity that encourages students to practice mālama, aloha, and kōkua by spending time each day caring for the land around their home. Learners may garden, weed, compost, plant food, clean up litter, or complete another stewardship action, then reflect in a journal on how their work changed the ʻāina and how caring for place affects them and their ʻohana.
