Maui County Teachers! We need to test some new activities. We’ve developed fun games, lab activities, experiments, and multi-media projects and we need students to try them out for us. Contact us at 573-6472 to schedule a classroom visit.
Raindrops: Are they all the same size?
Now that rainy season is here in Hawai’i, it’s time to teach your students about the watershed! In this fun, simple lab, students use squirt bottles and trays of flour to replicate how raindrop size affects forest health. Raindrops and Watersheds: Size Matters. Follow that lab up with Unit 1 in the Rain Forest Module. […]
Educator Workshop on Maui: Hō‘ike o Haleakalā Curriculum-35 million years of Hawaiian natural history over 3 days
Learn new ways to teach science using examples from Hawaiian ecosystems. This course will cover the emergence of the Hawaiian Islands, native flora and fauna, and present day invasive species issues. Play with glo-germ, Google Earth, and a fast-paced forest bird card game. Workshop includes two days of hands-on activities and guest scientists with a […]
Welcome to the new Ho’ike website
You will find all of the existing Hoike lessons here, plus some new ones! As activities in the new Invasive Species module are finished, they will be posted. Everything on this website is free for you to use in the classroom. Contact us with any questions about the material, or if you would like to […]
Hawaiian Diacriticals
Aloha this is an excerpt for the Hawaiian Diacritical Mark’s test/sample post for the Hō‘ike o Haleakalā Curriculum… Ā ā Ē ē Ī ī Ō ō Ū ū ʻ