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.
Wildfire Education and ʻĀina Restoration Videos | Mālama Learning Center
Wildfire Education and ʻĀina Restoration Videos is a Mālama Learning Center Vimeo collection exploring wildfire threats, dryland forest decline, native planting, and community restoration in Hawaiʻi. Through educational films, community stories, and practical demonstrations, viewers learn how wildfire prevention and mālama ʻāina can protect native ecosystems and strengthen community resilience.
Voice of the Sea | University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program
Native Forests is a Voice of the Sea educational episode exploring watershed forests on Oʻahu, Maui, and Hawaiʻi Island. Through interviews with hydrologists, conservation professionals, and land managers, it shows how native forests recharge aquifers, support wildlife, and benefit from invasive species control, restoration, and community stewardship. The webpage also provides curriculum connections and additional resources for classroom learning.
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.
