Geology of Windward Oʻahu & Kawainui He Huakaʻi i Koʻolaupoko

Grades: 6-8, modifiable for 3-5, 9-12

• Lesson Plan: Geology of Windward Oʻahu
• Video: “Moe Kaoo I Ka Ai Lepo” From Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Oct. 26, 1872

Geology and Meteorology of Hanauma Bay

Grades: 6-8, modifiable for 3-5, 9-12

• Lesson Plan: Geology and Meteorology of Hanauma Bay
• Hanauma Bay Map #1
• Hanauma Bay Map #2
• Geology of Hanauma Bay Presentation
• Video: Hanauma, from Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Oct. 26, 1926.

Geology teaching materials

• Hawaiian Volcanoes and Rejuvenation Stage Volcanism (No Nā Lua Pele)
  • Evolution of Hawaiian Volcanoes Slides: The Life and Times of a Hawaiian Volcano
• Earthquakes and Tsunami (No Ke Ōlaʻi A Me Ke Kai Hoʻēʻe)
  • Earthquakes & Tsunami in Hawaiʻi Slides
• Plate Tectonic
  • Plate Tectonic slide

Geology and Hawaiian language

Earthquake 

• The 1868 Ka‘ū Earthquake
  • The Ka‘ū Earthquake had a magnitude around 8.0 is the largest earthquake to have occurred in Hawai‘i since westerners arrived.
• The Volcanoes of Kilauea and Mauna Loa on the Island of Hawaii: Descriptions of the event
  • The descriptions were collated by Paige Okamura and Puakea from nā nūpepa. The earthquake was about 2 weeks of seismicity, with thousands of what turned out to be foreshocks to the main April 2 earthquake.

Tsunami 

• Hawaiian terms for tsunami from the Hawaiian Dictionary by Mary Pukui and Samuel Elbert.
  • Kaie`e, kai hō`e`e
  • Climbing or rising sea- It describes the way that a tsunami wave flows rapidly inshore for many minutes, much the way the tide comes in.
  • Kai mikimiki
  • Receding sea- During a tsunami event, sometimes the ocean recedes before washing ashore. If a trough arrives first, you have kai mikimiki. If a crest arrives first, you have kai e`e.
  • Kai a Pele
  • Locally-generated tsunami- The close association between earthquakes which Pele causes.