NHEP “All Together Now” grant lessons

Alia Thompson, Kaimukī Middle School, Alia_thompson@notes.k12.hi.us

Euvelyn Calma, Nānākuli High School, euvelyn@gmail.com

Presenting portions from:Oceanic Circulation, ʻŌlelo Noʻeau, & Moʻoleloand Introduction to Plankton

“All Together Now: A Model Partnership for Improving Hawaiian Middle School Education.”

Museum partnership with the UHCOE and the PVS

Create a series of educational experiences for Native Hawaiian middle school audiences

Combine western science with relevant cultural knowledge and practice.

Made possible by

• Bishop Museum• Native Hawaiian Education Program• UHCOE• CMORE• NSF• PVS

My background

• UHM- Botany degree, focus Hawaiian ethnobotany• UHM- Post-bacc Teaching Certificate, focus

Secondary Science Education• UHM- Master’s degree, Curriculum studies, focus

Hawaiian Science• 3rd year teacher Kaimuki Middle School 7th grade

life science • Other grants and projects: MBARI, CDEBI, CMORE,

IfA

Format and Framework

The 5 E Learning Cycle ModelHawaiian Style Perspective: Past, present, future

and Local, regional, global

http://faculty.mwsu.edu/west/maryann.coe/coe/inquire/inquiry.htm

Oceanic Circulation, ʻŌlelo Noʻeau, & Moʻolelo

Lessons to Engage, Explain and Elaborate

Alia Thompson, Kaimukī Middle School, Alia_thompson@notes.k12.hi.us

Euvelyn Calma, Nānākuli High School, euvelyn@gmail.com

ʻĀnela Benson, Maui Waena Intermediate School, anela_benson@notes.k12.hi.us

Summary and GoalFocus students’ previous personal knowledge of

and experience with ocean currents Integrate it with ʻike kūpuna (ancestor

knowledge), through ʻōlelo noʻeau (wise sayings) and moʻolelo (legends)

Scientific depictions of oceanographic

Connections to Voyaging

http://fys.kuleuven.be/pradem/demoproeven/prf100a.html

Connections to Culture

Analyze Kalae Current ʻŌlelo noʻeau Look for clues:

DirectionSpeedCharacterLocationGeologyOthers?

http://familytravel.everything-everywhere.com/2012/08/southpoint-hawaii/

# 1819: Kō ke au ia Halaʻea. The current carried Halaʻea away. (Said of one who goes out and forgets to return. Haleʻea was a chief of Kaʻū who was so selfish that he demanded every fish caught by the fishermen. After years of going without fish, the fishermen rebelled. One day, the whole fleet went to the fishing grounds outside of Kalae and did not return. The chief wanted the catch and ordered a servant to go and ask for it. The servant refused, and in anger the chief went himself. When he asked for the fish the whole fleet turned the prows of their canoes shoreward. One by one the fishermen unloaded their fish onto the chief’s canoe. The canoe began to sink under the weight of the fish, and the chief cried out to the men to stop. They refused. The chief, his canoe, and his fish were swept out on the current and never seen again. This current, which comes from the east and flows out to sea at Kalae, is known as Ke au o Halaʻea.) (p. 196)

# 2225: Na kai haele lua o Kalae, o Kāwili lāua o Halaʻea. The two sea currents of Kalae—Kāwili and Halaʻea. (The Halaʻea current, named for an evil chief who was swept away, comes from the east to Kalae and sweeps out to sea. The Kāwili (Hit-and-Twist) comes from the west and flows out alongside the Halaʻea. Woe betide anyone caught between.) (p. 243)

Kalae Today Do you see the same things?

http://www.slideshare.net/malama777/na-lae

Make Observations using real to near real time data

LocalRegional

Global

Average surface currents

http://oos.soest.hawaii.edu/pacioos/outreach/oceanatlas/currents.php

(Irwin, 2006, p. 71)

http://www.starfish.ch/reef/ocean.htm

Write Own ʻŌlelo and ShareSustainability of Knowledge

Introduction to Plankton

Lessons to Elaborate

Alia Thompson, Kaimukī Middle School, Alia_thompson@notes.k12.hi.us

Euvelyn Calma, Nānākuli High School, euvelyn@gmail.com

Summary and Goals

Students study how global climate change is affecting plankton

Students identify specific topics to enhance their understanding of plankton adaptations in order to explain how they survive within ocean currents.

Students collect, compare and share data

Connections to Voyaging

Background Resources on Plankton

Prodigal plankton species makes first known migration from Pacific to Atlantic via Pole

“Microscopic plant disappeared from North Atlantic 800,000 years ago; unwanted return 1 of several climate change symptoms already apparent throughout European oceans”

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-06/fmi-pps062011.php

Plankton kit-Intro to plankton CMORE

Plankton collection procedure CMORE

Collect and identify key stone species

Compare

Make zoogeographic Map

http://www.whoi.edu/news-release/planktonatlas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_plankton_prevailence.PNG

Sharing the DataFree Resources:

WebsiteGoogle maps and spreadsheet

http://ahupuaaopalolo.weebly.com

Implications for WWVHikianalia collect samples

report on key stone species

Students compare to their own

Questions, Comments, Concerns?