Curriculum
2023-2024
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Learning about the importance of being proactive in emergency situations.
NGSS Alignment:
Monitoring the Environment (MS-ESS3-3)
CCSS Alignment:
Form and Structure (CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.7)
Using plants as medicine to be proactive about our health and wellness.
NGSS Alignment:
Plant Cells (MS-LS1)
Survival (MS-LS2-2, MS-LS2-4, MS-LS2-5)
CCSS Alignment:
Research (CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.8)
Giving a Presentation (CCSS.CCRA.SL.5)
Understanding how ʻauwai system allowed water to be responsibly brought to other parts of the ahupuaʻa.
NGSS Alignment:
Water Cycle (MS-ESS2-1, MS-ESS3-1)
Environmental Changes (MS-ESS2-2, MS-ESS2-4)
Design Constraints (MS-ETS1-1)
CCSS Alignment
Forming an Argument (CCSS.8.W.1, CCSS.8.W.4, CCSS.8.W.5)
Learning about endangered native animals and the technology used to track their populations.
NGSS Alignment:
Technology & Data (ETS1-1)
CCSS Alignment:
Giving Presentations (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.8.5)
Malama 'Āina Foundation has created and maintains ownership of the curriculum shared here, developed through its various programs funded by federal grants and private organizations. Aligned with Malama 'Āina Foundation's mission and purpose, it is our desire to make this STEM-focused curriculum available to our schools and educators in order to increase rigor and cultural relevance for all haumāna in our state. This curriculum is downloadable for educational purposes; however, we ask that Malama 'Āina Foundation be credited when used and the Malama 'Āina Foundation name and logo remain on the curriculum documents.