Service Learning Trips
Service Learning
Beginning in 2011, our students have participated in Service Learning field trips with various community organizations on Maui and with the generous support of community educational grants. To date, we have secured $7,000 in grant funds and $3,000 in donated technology tools.
Over the past 8 years, our students have worked in all of the watersheds on Maui including Kaho‘olawe. We are grateful to these agencies for their work and for educating our students about the natural environment and biological resources of our island home.
Here are a few of the community organizations we have worked closely with:
- Auwahi Restoration Project
- East Maui Watershed Partnership
- West Maui Mountains Watershed Partnership
- Pu‘u Kukui Watershed Partnership
- Kaho‘olawe Island Reserve Commission
- Hui Mālama ‘o Waikapū
- Haleakalā National Park
ARC-GIS Story Maps
In the Environmental Science, Geography, and Hawaiian Ethnobotany courses, students learned to work with online GIS mapping technology. Below are the five story maps created in 2016-2017 by students highlighting the work we did. Click on the links to view the student's stories.
Kaho‘olawe Island Reserve Commission
Students planted pili grass on-island and helped with restoration maintenance projects.
Students planted ‘Āhinahina on our beautiful mountain.
Pu‘u Pahu with East Maui Watershed
Students planted Māmane and ‘A‘ali‘i and learned to use GPS handheld devices.
Keālia Pond National Wildlife Refuge
Students helped to remove the invasive pickle weed species from the pond areas.
Students helped to remove invasive species and then out planted ‘A‘ali‘i and ‘Āweoweo.
Community Grant Support
We are grateful for the various community organizations that offer educational grants that have enabled our students to learn in outdoor settings to apply their knowledge and be engaged in using all of their senses for learning. Over the years, we have been awarded funding from these generous programs and their donors:
Youth Service Hawai'i: Be the Change Grant
Hawai'i State Federal Credit Union: Investing in Education Grant
Kōkua Hawai'i Foundation: Field Trip Grant
Maui Economic Development Board: STEMworks Watershed Workshop
Project Learning Tree: GreenWorks! Grant
Donorschoose.org
We are thankful for the partnerships created together with these agencies.
National Youth Leadership Council's Service Learning Standards
We have adopted these K-12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice as a framework for guiding our contextually rich experiences in our own community. A complete guide of the standards can be downloaded here.
