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Hō‘ike o Haleakalā Curriculum

High school science curriculum designed by Maui teachers and field biologists

  • Alpine / Aeolian
  • Rain Forest
  • Coastal
  • Marine
  • Invasive Species
  • Unit
    1
    Learning From The Mountain
  • Unit
    2
    Summer Every Day And Winter Every Night
  • Unit
    3
    Life In The Kuahiwi And Kuamauna Zones
  • Unit
    4
    Good Critters, Bad Critters
  • Unit
    5
    Observatories, Transmitters, & Sacred Places

Summer Every Day and Winter Every Night

  • Activity #1What’s the Temperature at the Summit?
  • Activity #2Mauna Lei Mystery
  • Activity #3Summer Every Day and Winter Every Night

October 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Unit 2 – Summer Every Day And Winter Every Night

Activity 3 – Summer Every Day and Winter Every Night

Download Teacher Pages PDF

Activity (Teacher Verison) PDF Download

Download Student Pages PDF

Activity PDF Download

Materials & Setup

In Advance Student Assignment

• Assign the Student Page “Is it REALLY Summer Every Day and Winter Every Night?” (pp. 30-31) as homework. (See Class Period One Materials and Setup for details.)

Class Period One

For each student
• Student Page “Is It Really Summer Every Day and Winter Every Night?” (pp. 30-31)
• This homework assignment involves downloading information from the Internet. If you would prefer providing the tables and graphs rather than requiring students to download them, do this ahead of time and make one copy per student.

Instructions

1) Discuss student responses to the questions on the student page. Ask students to speculate about how plants and animals might be adapted for living in an environment marked by such dramatic daytime and nighttime temperature differences.

Journal Ideas

• Write a one-page entry that describes what you think environmental conditions are like in the alpine/aeolian ecosystem, based on what you have learned so far.
• Have you been to the summit of Haleakalā or another extreme climate? What was it like there? How do people protect themselves against the extremes?
• Imagine what it would be like to be a plant or animal in the alpine/aeolian zone. One researcher said it would be like standing out in a cinder field all day long with no hat and no sunscreen. Then night falls and you have no jacket, but you can’t move. What kinds of analogies would you come up with? Write or draw or make up a chant or a song about living in the alpine/aeolian zone.

Assessment Tools

• Class participation
• Student Page “Is It Really Summer Every Day and Winter Every Night?” (teacher version, pp. 28-29)
• Journal entries

Media Resources

None.

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  • Activity #1What’s the Temperature at the Summit?
  • Activity #2Mauna Lei Mystery
  • Activity #3Summer Every Day and Winter Every Night

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