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.
Leaf Rubbing Collection | Kamehameha Schools
Leaf Rubbing Collection is a Kamehameha Schools ʻohana activity that encourages keiki and families to explore plants around their home and neighborhood. Learners collect different leaves, observe their shapes and textures, make crayon rubbings, identify the plants when possible, and combine their work into a personal plant collection book. The activity blends creativity, plant observation, outdoor exploration, and respect for the natural environment.
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.
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.
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.
