Living Jewels: The Rare Plants of Hawaiʻi | ʻŌiwi TV
Living Jewels: The Rare Plants of Hawaiʻi is a documentary-style video featuring horticulturist Heidi Bornhorst and botanist Charles Lamoureux as they introduce rare and endangered Hawaiian plants and their habitats. The resource highlights many native species and provides a useful foundation for lessons on botany, biodiversity, habitat conservation, and threatened plants in Hawaiʻi.
Kilo Sheet | Ke Kula ʻo Poʻowai Nui
A free downloadable Kilo Sheet for 1st to 4th grade that helps hāumana practice intentional observation outdoors. Learners use cut-out squares to locate ʻāhui hala or hīnano, making this a strong place-based activity for studying hala through kilo.
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.
Lāʻau & Holoholona | Kumukahi
Lāʻau & Holoholona is a Kumukahi online lesson about Hawaiian plants and animals across mountain, forest, shoreline, reef, and deep ocean environments. It combines ecology with Hawaiian cultural knowledge and works well for classroom or self-guided place-based learning.
Collecting Endangered Plants on Hawaiian Cliffs With Drone | National Tropical Botanical Garden
Collecting Endangered Plants on Hawaiian Cliffs With Drone is a short Outreach Robotics video that shows the Mamba drone system being used to collect rare native plants from steep Hawaiian cliffs. It offers a strong example of how engineering and aerial robotics can support conservation science in places that are dangerous or impossible for people to reach directly. The resource works well as a brief classroom video on conservation technology and environmental problem-solving.
Cliff Dwellers of Kauaʻi and the People Who Hang with Them! | Department of Land & Natural Resources
Cliff Dwellers of Kauai and the People Who Hang with Them! is a DLNR conservation documentary about the botanists and plant protection teams who rappel into the cliffs of Waimea Canyon to find and protect rare native plants. It highlights the science, risk, and dedication involved in Hawaiʻi plant conservation and works well as a classroom video for environmental science and stewardship discussions.
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.
Native Hawaiian Plants for Landscaping, Conservation, and Reforestation | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Native Hawaiian Plants for Landscaping, Conservation, and Reforestation is a CTAHR guide to selecting, propagating, and using native Hawaiian plants in gardens, restoration projects, and reforestation. It combines plant culture guidance with illustrated profiles of native groundcovers, shrubs, and trees, including propagation methods, landscape uses, pests, and cultural notes. The resource is especially useful for educator planning, native plant research, and conservation-focused planting projects.
Kamehameha Butterfly and the Pulelehua Project | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
The Kamehameha Butterfly and the Pulelehua Project is a UH CTAHR educational article about Hawaiʻi’s native state insect and the citizen-science effort to map and protect it. It introduces the butterfly’s life cycle, host plants, threats, and habitat needs while encouraging learners to submit observations and support recovery through native planting. The resource is especially useful for classroom learning, conservation education, and community science projects.
Insectary Plants for Hawaii | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Insectary Plants for Hawaii is a CTAHR Cooperative Extension guide that helps learners understand how plants can support pollinators and other beneficial insects in Hawaiʻi. It combines species profiles, habitat guidance, and native Hawaiian plant examples to support pollination, biological pest control, and insectary garden planning. The resource works well for classroom learning, educator planning, and garden-based projects.
