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.
Professional Development | Healthy Climate Communities
Professional Development from Healthy Climate Communities offers free annual PDE3 courses and customized educator workshops focused on Hawaiʻi-based climate science and resilience. Teachers explore Earth systems, local climate impacts, stewardship, and ways to adapt place-based environmental resources for their students.
School Visits | Healthy Climate Communities
School Visits from Healthy Climate Communities offers free, interactive climate and environmental education at schools and community locations. Activities are adapted to participants’ learning goals and can include native plant and bird studies, ecosystem restoration, climate science, Earth systems, traditional plant practices, and community-based climate solutions.
Field Trips | Healthy Climate Communities
Field Trips from Healthy Climate Communities offers free, place-based educational experiences at Hāmākua Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary. Students, teachers, and community members explore climate science, native ecosystems, restoration, and community resilience through field activities, longer-term projects, and conservation-focused internships.
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.
Programs | Mālama Learning Center
The Programs page from Mālama Learning Center introduces a range of collaborative programs focused on ʻāina-based education, native ecosystem restoration, service learning, volunteering, and community engagement. It serves as a directory for finding sustained educational and stewardship opportunities, including Ola Nā Kini, partner programs, volunteer activities, Outside Hawaiʻi TV, and legacy initiatives.
