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Biomimicry in Youth Education: A Toolkit for K-12 Educators

Biomimicry in Youth Education: A Resource Toolkit for K-12 Educators

Biomimicry in Youth Education: A Resource Toolkit for K-12 Educators is a digital flipbook indexing over 80 biomimicry education resources, selected to assist teachers working with students from kindergarten through high school. The collection includes quality lesson plans, curricular units, digital media, and more, gleaned from a broad survey of available materials. For educators new to the subject of biomimicry, the toolkit also offers a thorough introductory section containing an orientation to biomimicry’s core concepts and suggested strategies for communicating those ideas to students.

Posted on 14 May 2014
By Aʻo Hawaii
In Curriculum

Sailing into Our Past and Future: Maritime Southeast Asian and Pacific Canoes and Our Integral Relationship with the Ocean

Grades 9-10
Developed by Elena Clariza, University of Hawaii
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Posted on 3 May 2014
By Aʻo Hawaii
In Curriculum, Malama Honua WWV

The Oceans Connect Us: Plankton & Genetic Activity

The Oceans Connect Us: Plankton and Genetic Activity

Developed by: Kewalo Basin Marine Laboratory at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.

Overview: Students take on a marine detective role and solve marine related crimes to draw connections among plankton and the physiological factors that influence their global morphology and distribution. As a learning outcome, students will be able to explain how the oceans connect us and offer adaptive strategies for future sustainable conservation practices.

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Plankton Activity Guide

Answer Key

Posted on 2 May 2014
By Aʻo Hawaii
In Curriculum

Kai Eʻe – Mounting Seas

Kai Eʻe – Mounting Seas – Hawaiʻi Tsunami and Climate Change Curriculum

Grades : 6 and 8

Developed by: The Pacific Tsunami Museum, Hilo, Hawaiʻi in partnership with The Pacific American Foundation, Kāneʻohe, Hawaiʻi and the Geophysics Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Overview: “Kai Eʻe – Mounting Seas” addresses the topic of climate change, providing opportunities for students to explore many interrelationships, including the connections between our energy use and changes in the global carbon cycle, temperatures, rainfall patterns, and sea level. This unit is designed as an introduction to climate change with a focus on sea level rise in Hawaiʻi, and actions that students can take today to reduce their carbon footprints.

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Climate Change curriculum

Appendices and Index

Posted on 2 May 2014
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In Curriculum

Aloha ʻĀina Peace Flags: Nurturing and Protecting Our Lands

Developed by Miki Tomita, Jenna Ishii, Mark Ellis, Matthew Kanemoto, Iasona Ellinwood. Pomai Stone

Posted on 2 May 2014
By Aʻo Hawaii
In Curriculum, Malama Honua WWV

Letʻs Go Voyaging: Teacherʻs Guide

Letʻs Go Voyaging: Teachers Guide

Grade levels: 4-6

Developed by: The Moanalua Gardens Foundation

Overview: Letʻs Go Voyaging is a comprehensive curriculum that leads students on a virtual voyage to Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Using traditional means of navigation, students learn to achieve sustainability for the future by drawing on lessons and values from our voyaging past.

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Letʻs Go Voyaging

Posted on 2 May 2014
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Pacific Worlds

Developed as a Teacher’s Resource Guide to engage students in geographical thinking about the Pacific Islands by drawing on their own cultural resources and home-island locations. At the same time, these exercises often require comparative consideration of “Western” versus indigenous views. These resources are currently aimed at the 4th grade to 8th grade level, but can be used with other age groups. They have even been used at the university level. Each presentation is set up as a virtual voyage/journey of discovery with eight chapters: Arrival, A Native Place, The Sea, The Land, Footprints, Visitors, Memories, Onwards.

Among the places in Hawai’i that have their stories told at the site are the following:

Nu‘uanu, O‘ahu
Ha‘ena, Kaua‘i
Kawaihae, Hawai‘i

Posted on 21 Apr 2014
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Mālama Kaho’olawe

Developed by the Pacific American Foundation, this unit Mālama Kaho’olawe focuses on the island of Kaho‘olawe as a training site for ancient navigators. The island’s position in relationship to the rest of the Hawaiian archipelago allowed navigators to study the stars, the sunrise/sunset, the winds and ocean currents. The island is the piko (center) of the Hawaiian island chain and “the point of arrival and departure for canoes journeying to and from the southern islands” (Reeve, 1995).

Posted on 21 Apr 2014
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Navigating Change

The Teacher’s Guide to Navigating Change is an educational voyage to motivate, encourage, and challenge us to take care of our land and sea. It is presented in a five part, Hawai’i DOE Standards (HCPS 3) aligned curriculum for grades 4-5. The guide includes five units that are designed to help students explore their relationships to the environment and ways that they can “navigate change” in their own communities.