School: Nānāikapono Elementary SchoolGrade Level: Grades 5-6Teacher: Alexis Prei Driving Question: How do we, as teammates, support each other in order to push past our personal expectations and improve our well-being? What did the students DO? The Girls on the Run PALS group Nānāikapono Elementary School has supported a group of haumāna in building physical...
School: Nānāikapono Elementary SchoolGrade Level: Grades 3-6Teacher: Kahealani Paogofie and Charimhel Rarallo Driving Question: How do we, as artists, learn culture through art so that we can connect our backgrounds to the present? What did the students DO? The Aloha ʻĀina group has been actively engaged in a variety of creative and community-centered projects that...
School: Nānākuli High & Intermediate SchoolGrade Level: Grades 7-12Teacher: Richard Enright and Makoa Umeda Driving Question: How do we as students design, build, program and document an Electro-Mechanical device that requires software to compete in multiple robotic competitions both in-person and virtually? What did the students DO? The NHIS Robotics Program is thriving this year,...
School: Mākaha Elementary SchoolGrade Level: Grades -6Teacher: Jessica Mishima-Donahue and Thelma Medeiros Driving Question: How can we as a robotics team use our knowledge of technology, design and engineering, and collaboration, share about how/what we do, foster our interests for our future? What did the students DO? In their inaugural year, this robotics team—guided by...
School: Mākaha Elementary SchoolGrade Level: Grades 3-6Teacher: Melissa Forrest, Raelyn Cambra, Azure Ching, and Thelma Medeiros Driving Question: How can the Kanaka Maoli perpetuate the Makahiki season? What did the students DO? Our partnership with Hoa ʻĀina o Mākaha continues to uplift and inspire our haumāna through a meaningful blend of hands-on learning, cultural practice,...
School: Mākaha Elementary SchoolGrade Level: Grades 3-6Teacher: Joseph Jerviss and Rhealiza Vega Driving Question: How does learning board games contribute to building a greater understanding of social interaction and solving real world problems while creating a community. What did the students DO? The ʻOhana Game Masters program is rooted in the spirit of laulima (cooperation)...
School: Ka Waihona o Ka Na’auao Public Charter SchoolGrade Level: Grades 3-6Teacher: Valerie Manoa, Hiilani Shibata Driving Question: How can our knowledge of cultivation create gifts that contribute to our economic ecosystem of our community? What did the students DO? This PALS group has been deeply engaged in mālama ʻāina through gardening and traditional crafts...
School: Ka Waihona o Ka Na’auao Public Charter SchoolGrade Level: Grades K-1Teacher: Dariess Ah Sui Driving Question: How can we create handmade art to celebrate/communicate a sense of aloha and the beauty of our lives? How can art help us express our feelings, thoughts, and emotions in positive ways? What did the students DO? This...
School: Ka Waihona o Ka Na’auao Public Charter SchoolGrade Level: Grades K-3Teacher: Dannie Haia and Deirdre Makanani Driving Question: How does learning to embody Na Mea Waiwai support us in creating a positive environment where we can work and play. How does Na Mea Waiwai appear in a space that encourages play as a way...
School: Kamaile Academy Public Charter SchoolGrade Level: Grades Pre K-KTeacher: Chikyra Crabbe, Darlene Kay, Haunani Quizon, and Jolene Soto Driving Question: How can we, as thinkers, find things that interest us so that we can apply our mind, hands, and hearts to do things that interest us to keep our mind working, thinking, and busy?...
Dr. Kay Fukuda
Project Director
PLACES
Place-based Learning And Community Engagement in School
PALS
Place-based Afterschool Literacy Support
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
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