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Standards Aligned
Next Generation Science Standards, Social Studies (C3), Common Core Math, Common Core ELA, Na Hapena A'o, International Society for Technology in Education, Other (see Unit)
Community Partner(s)
The workshop series is designed to be flexible in which community partners can be engaged and brought in based on your physical location and personal community ties. Some suggestions that are written into the lesson plans based on the locations of focus (Honolulu and Kailua areas) are: Waikalua Loko Iʻa/Pacific American Foundation, Kauluakalana, Lyon Arboretum, and the Department of Land and Natural resources.
Essential Question
How does learning about local wetlands from multiple perspectives inspire us to love and care for these places?
Enduring Understanding
- Building a holistic understanding of local wetlands as complete and complex ecosystems helps us to cultivate a loving appreciation that empowers us to care for them.
- Engaging with different forms of knowledge, including understandings that emerge from scientific, cultural, communal, and lived experiences, can lead to multi-dimensional perspectives about a place and/or ecosystem that inform how we can help restore and advocate for it.
- Understanding the different types of relationships humans have formed with their places throughout history and across cultures gives insights into how these places exist in the present and inspires possibilities for the future.
Learner Level Elementary, Middle
Primary Content STEM, Social Studies, Cultural Knowledge