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Geology Lessons

  • geology topography

    Geology of Windward Oʻahu & Kawainui He Huakaʻi i Koʻolaupoko

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

    • Lesson Plan: Geology of Windward Oʻahu

     

  • Hanauma Bay Map #2

    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
  • volcano

    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
  • waves

    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.
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