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Lei ʻŌhai - Waiʻanae Community Resource Website
Lei ʻŌhai - Waiʻanae Community Resource Website
Ke Ala Naʻauao (KAN) created a website to act as a repository for stories, history, culture, and various educational resources focused around the Waiʻanae community for teachers and students to learn more about their place. This website contains maps of culturally significant sites, 360 VR tours, videos, place names, and a collection of the moʻolelo (stories) from these sites. Archival pictures of places in the Waiʻanae community along with audiobooks and short stories were also posted to the website as resources. This project is ongoing.
ʻAlae ʻUla - Wildfire Awareness Campaign
ʻAlae ʻUla - Wildfire Awareness Campaign
In an effort to address the near-constant threat of wildfires in the community, the KAN team created a culturally relevant curriculum to educate students about the danger of fire to our native forest and the native plants and animals that reside there. The curriculum begins with a traditional Hawaiian story about the ʻalaeʻula or moorhen that held the secret of fire. The ʻalaeʻula becomes a mouthpiece for fire safety in our communities. Included in the curriculum are many child-friendly activities that focus on land stewardship and personal safety. This project is ongoing.
Community Partner Huakaʻi
Community Partner Huakaʻi
To give teachers opportunities to experience important sites around the Waiʻanae moku while introducing potential community partners, KAN organized and sponsored a series of huakaʻi. Click on the project page button for more information on past and future huakaʻi.
PBL Project Spotlight
PBL Project Spotlight
KAN is working to promote Project Based Learning (PBL) in the classroom. In this project, KAN staff are creating a portfolio of teachers who are using PBL in the classroom to spark inspiration for other teachers. This project is ongoing.
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Searider Summer Program
Searider Summer Program
KAN partnered with Searider Productions to provide a summer program to train student leaders to use digital tools. Students were tasked to create a logo around the slogan "Literacy is Our Legacy". This project took place in the Summer of 2021.
Keiki Kaiāulu Summer Program
Keiki Kaiāulu Summer Program
This project took place in the Summer of 2021.
Hardware Science Hawaii Workshops
Hardware Science Hawaii Workshops
In an effort to give students opportunities to engage with hands-on STEM activities during distance learning, KAN partnered with a local business, Hardware Science Hawaii to provide take home STEM kits. In these kits, students were provided with the materials to build an engineering project and were instructed on how to put the kits together via a series of online workshops for four weeks. 148 Students across 5 elementary schools signed up to recieve kits and feedback on the kits was generally positive. The project took place in the Spring and Fall of 2021.
Nānākuli Elementary School & Mele Murals - 6th Grade Legacy Project
Nānākuli Elementary School & Mele Murals - 6th Grade Legacy Project
In the Mele Murals legacy project for NES 6th-graders, students worked with the Mele Murals team and their SEL/community-based process to create a mural about their community at their school. The project took place in the Spring of 2021.
Waiʻanae Elementary School 4th Grade Visit to Bishop Museum and Portable Planetarium
Waiʻanae Elementary School 4th Grade Visit to Bishop Museum and Portable Planetarium
To connect with what they were learning in class about ancient Hawaiian history and culture, students went on a field trip to the Bishop Museum. There, students saw artifacts and did activities related to ocean voyaging. Additionally, the Bishop Museum's astronomy department brought a portable planetarium to the school to talk about satelites for science. This project took place in early 2020.
Waiʻanae Intermediate School 7th Grade Science Wai-Kai Project
Waiʻanae Intermediate School 7th Grade Science Wai-Kai Project
Waiʻanae Intermediate Team 7-3 & 7-4 Social Studies & Life Science coordinated a field trip for 200 students and 9 teachers to Paepae o Heʻeia, where they made connections between what they were learning in Hawaiian History & Life Science. In this project students learned lessons on water, ahupuaʻa systems, and kilo. This project took place in the Fall of 2019.
Waiʻanae Intermediate School 7th Grade Social Studies Makahiki Project
Waiʻanae Intermediate School 7th Grade Social Studies Makahiki Project
Waiʻanae Intermediate Team 7-3 Social Studies coordinated a field trip for 100 students and 4 teachers to Lanikūhonua. Students practiced makahiki games and activities under expert Kumu. Students later used this experience as a reference to put on their own makahiki event at WIS including community experts and special guests. This project took place in the Fall of 2019.
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