Week

Date

Topic

Assignment

1

8/25-26

Orientation, Introduction

Review the lab website.

2

9/1-2

Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Campus Botanical Field Trip

Read:

Indigenous knowledge and Western science: perspectives from the Pacific by Mere Roberts. Be ready to discuss.

Campus tour worksheet.

Complete:

Traditional Ecological Knowledge worksheet.

Fill in:

Campus Botanical Field Trip worksheet.

3

9/8-9

Fruits & Vegetables

Pomology

Read:

Fruits & Vegetable worksheet

Complete:
Fruits & Vegetable worksheet

Bring to lab:

One funky fruit or vegetable for classmates to sample.

4

9/15-16

Home gardens

&

Community landscapes

Read & Complete:

Home gardens & Community landscapes worksheet

Work a first Saturday at Ka Papa Lo ‘i ‘o Kanewai. Create a sketch of the landscape with a reflection of the work completed.

5

9/22-23

Edible Algae: Limu

Read:
Limu worksheet

Bring to lab:

An edible or other item that contains algae in the ingredients list. Identify the phyla of your limu.

6

9/29-30

Spices, Flavorings & Essential Oils

Read:
Balick and Cox pp132-141

Watch Nguyen 2005 and Ticktin 2005

Prepare:

 A food item and mini presentation, follow guidelines.

Complete Spices worksheet

Bring to lab:

A prepared dish with mini presentation.

7

10/6-7

Psychoactive & Ritual Plants

Read:
Psychoactive and Ritual Plants worksheet

Archaeological evidence for the tradition of psychoactive plant use in the Old World by M. Merlin

Prepare:

A background on a psychoactive or ritual plant to present in class, follow guidelines.

Bring to lab:

Psychoactive plant background with plant example

8

10/13-14

Herbal Medicine

Read:
Herbal medicine worksheet

Abbott p.97-104

Prepare:

A background on a medicinal plant to present in class, follow guidelines.

Bring to lab:

Medicinal plant background with plant material for tincture

Two glass jars with tight lids and 1 cup 80 proof alcohol for making tinctures.

9

10/20-21

Nutrition

Turn in Lab Manuals

Read:

Toothbrush or diet? By Nils Larsen

Bring to lab:

Clothes to get dirty in, shoes, hat, mosquito repellant, and bottle water.

10

10/27-28

Ethnomusicology

Read:

On Hawaiian Folk Music by Emerson S.

Ethnomusicology worksheet

Prepare:

A background of a musical instrument to present in class, follow guidelines.  Bring in or make the musical instrument you are researching.

Bring to lab:
Musical instrument and background to present.

11

11/3-4

No Formal Lab

Cloth, Fibers & Cordage

Read:

Abbott pgs. 49-64

The Beat Goes On by Roland Gilmore

Prepare:

Create a color wheel with lab mates.

12

11/10-11

No Lab

Prepare for your Final Project Presentation and Paper submittal, follow guidelines.

13

11/17-18

Final Project Presentations

Turn in Lab Manuals

Complete:

Final Project Presentation and Paper, follow guidelines

Prepare:

To critique lab mates

14

11/24-25

Final Project Presentations

Complete:

Final Project Presentation and Paper, follow guidelines

Prepare:

To critique lab mates

15

12/1-2

Ecology & Conservation

Compete:

Ecology & Conservation worksheet