Audience: Students; Grades: 6-12; Subject Areas: Hawaiian Studies, Social Studies. Documentary on Marshallese Canoes by Rachel Miller with support from the Hawaii Council for the Humanities
Audience: All; Subject Areas: Schools. (2019) Numerous DOE schools are named after or attached to Hawaiian Ali'i. What is the story about how and why this happened? What is the connection between the school and the ali'i today? Let's start with learning about Princess Ruth Luka Keanolani Kauanahoahoa Ke'elikokani and Central Intermediate School on O'ahu.
Grades: All; Subject areas: Fine Arts. Artists Carl Pao and Matt and Roxy Ortiz highlight Line and its representation in Art.(2014)
Grades: All; Subject areas: Fine Arts. Artists Carl Pao and Keone study the role of Space in the art of Hawaiian tattooing.(2014)
Audience: Students; Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Fine Arts. (1999) Mark draws moon creatures while demonstrating the Renaissance words size, horizon, and practice. He also reviews the painting "Undergrowth with Two Figures" by Vincent Van Gogh.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Fine Arts. (1999) Mark draws a space shuttle while demonstrating the Renaissance words foreshortening and overlapping. He also reviews the painting "Boatmen on the Missouri" by George Caleb Bingham. Web Wizard introduces the NASA website. Animator Karen Johnson draws a Martian.
For centuries, loko i'a, or fishponds, were a vital part of the Native Hawaiian food system, connecting freshwater sources to the ocean, using rock-wall enclosures to raise and eventually harvest fish. In recent decades, there has been a resurgence of this indigenous way of aquafarming. Kai Piha: Na Loko I'a looks at how four fishponds on O'ahu are being restored.
Explores the mythology, legends and history found in the Harry Potter novels by J.K. Rowling.
FLASHPOINT - Brings together an accomplished group of Hawai'i based artists working under the theme of FIRE. Artworks in this exhibition depict the varied aspects of FIRE and are visual interpretations of flashpoints in time and place - in methods of fabrication and conceptual context.
Following the process of adapting a classic ballet into a "Hawaiianized" version that reflects the history of the Hawaiian Monarchy under the last Queen of the islands and the location of historic Washington Place by Ballet Hawaii.
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-5; Subject: Social Studies. Pele, the primal force of volcanic heat and lava, leaves her ancient home of Kahiki and searches out a new home for herself and her family. As she travels down the Hawaiian island chain, she is pursued by and battles her eldest sister Namaka, the goddess of water and the sea. After a climactic battle on the island of Maui, she finally finds refuge in Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawai'i.
Grades: All; Subject areas: Fine Arts. (2006) This documentary highlights several of Hawai`i's most prominent artists. Each 25-minute segment features two artists who work in the same medium. They share their views and philosophy, and discuss technique and style.
Grades: All; Subject areas: Fine Arts. (2006) This documentary highlights several of Hawai`i's most prominent artists. Each 25-minute segment features two artists who work in the same medium. They share their views and philosophy, and discuss technique and style.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject: Language Arts, Fine Arts. (2007) An artist using mixed media, illustrates the traditional story of Little Red Riding Hood.
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-12; Subject Areas: Sustainability, STEM. (2017) In this episode: White sand lizards, nuclear material detection, transforming flat shapes into 3D, Darwin the Robot, smart concrete, and much more!
Audience: Students; Grades: 9-12; Science.Scientists demonstrate how the struggle for survival drives evolution, introducing molluscs as animals that know the secrets of this competition to survive. Using the example of the abalone, introduces typical mollusk construction: the radula, shell, mantle and body design. Also films how abalones escape their predators by outrunning them, while cockles and moon snails use their foot to dig or remain firmly shut against their enemies. Biologist, Peter Ward, captures a chambered nautilus to demonstrate how evolution transformed a bottom feeder into a battleship-like warrior with spicules that increased its buoyancy. Also reveals how evolutionary features of the nervous system and body design of the squid propells it through the ocean and how the octopus developed a unique body design, camoflauge, and a large brain. For Teacher's Guides go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLffk5QOEpyUGs2NnQ3cjRETGlnZHB3RjN3VkRrSC1wZWxUQ3pwWGFxRV9lYlU&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 9-12; Science.In Hawaii, marine biologist, Gail Kaalialii, studies a variety of echinoderms explaining how echinodern symmetry and body design have enabled these brainless animals to survive and flouish. In the second segment, Don Wobber, a retired sculptor, shows his underwater films that capture sea stars' fight for dominance. Other close-up photography and computer animation demonstrate their hydraulically powered tube feet. A third segment films how sea stars attack mussels with these tube feet and externalize their stomachs to feed. The aggressive, twenty-armed Pycnopodia is filmed as it captures snails and other prey. A final segment follows paleontologist Andrew Smith as gathers fossil evidence that echinoderms evolved a sedimentary, plant-like life that resulted in the great diversity of echinoderms found today. For Teacher's Guides go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLffk5QOEpyUGs2NnQ3cjRETGlnZHB3RjN3VkRrSC1wZWxUQ3pwWGFxRV9lYlU&usp=sharing
In Tampa Bay, marine biologist, Linda Holland, studies amphioxus, finding this simple animal with its novochord, clearly linked to human evolution. Her studies pinpoint the evolution of body form in amphioxus, chicks, and other animals with a backbone. She also explains how the duplication of genes enabled larger animals to evolve. The second segment recalls the evolutionary period dominated by fishes and the emergence of tetrapods on land. Paleontologist Jenny Clack, recalls how she discovered the transitional form. The segment also studies monitor lizards as examples of the development of tetrapods. The third segment relates amphioxus to the evolution of dinosaurs. In Montana, Kristi Curry-Rogers, a palentologist, explains why she believes dinosaurs grew large very quickly. The fourth segment explains how mammals evolved after the extinction of the dinosaurs. For Teacher's Guides go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLffk5QOEpyUGs2NnQ3cjRETGlnZHB3RjN3VkRrSC1wZWxUQ3pwWGFxRV9lYlU&usp=sharin
Audience: General; Subject: Social Studies.(2015) Hidden in the back of Manoa Valley, the Lyon Arboretum is a historic site that serves as a botanical garden, an educational institution, and a research facility. The documentary tells the history of the arboretum and the vital role it played in preserving our watershed. The many present-day activities of the arboretum are also featured including its work in preserving and exhibiting Native Hawaiian and exotic plants, its role as an educational institution and its role as a research facility.
Audience: General; Subject: Social Studies.(2015) This documentary covers the activities of the Hawaiian Rare Plant Program at the Lyon Arboretum, a program that seeks to propagate and preserve the most endangered plant species in our islands. The documentary explores the program's three main components: a seed bank, a micro-propagation laboratory, and its greenhouse facilities. The processes of seed storage and micro-propagation are explained, and several rarely seen endangered plants are featured.
Audience: Students; Grades: 6-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2014) Designing Life. Man has been doing it for over 10,000 years. You may not be aware of it, but we are surrounded by "Superlife," life-forms manipulated by Man. Superlife looks at the stories of how these super organisms came to permeate our planet, and how the latest science is pushing the boundaries to create more with less time and resources and at a higher quality. Note- Superlife explores the science of how mankind is manipulating life for its benefit. The series does not attempt to address the concerns surrounding cloning, genetically modified organisms or the ethics of certain farming practices.
Audience: General; Grades: K-12; Subject Areas: Science. The video briefly recounts the eruptive history of Halema'uma'u and describes the formation and continued growth of the current summit vent and lava lake. It features USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists sharing their insights on the summit eruption: how they monitor the lava lake, how and why the lake level rises and falls, why explosive events occur, the connection between Kilauea's ongoing summit and East Rift Zone eruptions, and the impacts of the summit eruption on the Island of Hawai'i and beyond.
Audience: Students; Grades: 6-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2015) Join NASA EDGE as they cover the launch of the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) spacecraft live from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Special guests include NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, SMAP Project System Engineer Shawn Goodman and Lt Col Brande Walton and Joseph Sims from the Air Force. No word on the Co-Host's whereabouts.
Audience: Students; Grades: 6-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2015) NASA EDGE joins the ELaNa X Teams as their CubeSats deploy less than two hours after a successful ride into space. Dr. Charles Norton (NASA JPL) and Scott Higginbotham (NASA Kennedy) share the excitement with students from Montana State University and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Science. (2013) Little Scientist helps children develop scientific reasoning by exploring the world of science that surrounds them. The unique structure of each program combines a short story with scientific information, enabling children to easily and naturally become interested and engaged. While focusing on the story, children will naturally absorb the science that is presented in various "fun" formats. Science is fun!
Audience: Students; Grades: 6-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2002) Explores the major topographical landforms that make up the Earth, including plains, plateaus, and mountains. Identifies the characteristics and composition of the Earth's crust, which makes up the outer portion of the Earth; the mantle, which makes up the majority of the Earth's volume; and the core, which is believed to contribute to Earth's magnetic field. Concludes with a ten-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfY0R5WDdrOVZnTTQ&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 6-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2002) Introduces different types of maps, including street maps, weather maps, nautical charts, maps of the Earth, and topographic maps. Details how latitude and longitude can be used to pinpoint an exact location on the surface of the Earth and shows how the Earth is divided into different time zones. Looks at some of the most common projections of the Earth, including the Mercator Projection, the Robinson Projection, and the conic projection. Also touches on some of the essentials in map reading, including how to identify map symbols, direction and scale. Concludes with a ten-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfY0R5WDdrOVZnTTQ&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 6-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2002) Looks at some of the characteristics of freshwater and shows that freshwater makes up a very small percentage of the total water on Earth. Details the different stages in the water cycle, including the processes of evaporation, condensation and precipitation. Looks at the different forms of freshwater, including frozen freshwater, standing water and running water. Also examines the characteristics of underground water. Concludes with a ten-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfY0R5WDdrOVZnTTQ&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 6-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2002) Explores some of the characteristics of oceans, including temperature, pressure, density and the factors which contribute to the salinity of ocean water. Discusses some of the factors involved in the creation of ocean waves and ocean currents, as well as surface and deep currents. Also looks at some of the fascinating features found on the floor of the ocean, including the shoreline, continental margin, continental shelf, continental slope, submarine canyons, and seamounts. Concludes with a ten-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfY0R5WDdrOVZnTTQ&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject: Language Arts, Fine Arts. (2007) Using sketch painting, an artist illustrates the "Violin's Story." It was eight in the morning and the underground was full of men wearing damp raincoats, women with umbrellas, children on their way to school, and old folks who couldn't sleep. Regina was with her mother and was a bit angry. She wished she could have slept in. Regina hated rainy days and hated the morning ride even more. Luckily, a man got on at the next step and started playing a musical instrument that Regina had never seen before. Regina couldn't help staring at the man as she listened spellbound to the music. The other passengers could only hear the gypsy melody. But Regina heard the strange instrument's voice as it spoke the following words, "Close your eye's and listen to the violins' story...a story of an orphan who wins the love of a princess."
A sampling of various Geometry Camp lessons that provide students with hands-on, inquiry-based learning to expose them to geometric concepts. Students are given the opportunity to practice basic concepts and functions of geometry with real world applications. Concepts introduced in Geometry Camp include the Pythagorean Theorem, shapes, patterns, area, and perimenter. General learner outcomes are embedded in this non-threatening, fun learning process.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject: Math. (2005) Dr. Rock presents all the basic shapes and identifies the characteristics that define each shape. Also introduces the concept of symmetry, illustrating what happens when shapes are flipped, rotated, and turned. Children identify the shapes of different objects, create shapes using a geoboard, and learn how triangles and rectangles fit together to form other shapes.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-12; Subject Areas: Science. Summer ice retreat in the Chukchi Sea between Alaska and Russia is a significant climate change impact affecting Pacific Walruses, which are being considered for listing as a threatened species. This twelve minute video follows walruses in their summer sea ice habitat and shows how USGS biologists use satellite radio tags to track their movements and behavior. The information identifies areas of special importance to walruses during sparse summer sea ice and as human presence increases in the region from oil drilling and activities such as shipping and tourism now possible with less ice.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject Areas: Science. (2011) Students will learn how to measure length and distance using common tools in this engaging, colorful program. Concepts and terminology: metric ruler, meter, centimeter, and kilometer. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfdktnalJvOFhOT1k&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 9-12; Subject: STEM. (2015) The Sun The possibilities offered by the Sun in terms of clean, sustainable solar and wind energy seem endless. In fact, new research and technologies might very well be the solution to mankind's current dependency on oil and the social and political harm that tend to result from this dependency.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject Areas: Science. (2014) The use of tools, equipment, and instruments in science and engineering is vital to acquiring data. Students will learn how and why tools are helpful in science. Concrete examples of common, everyday tools help teach key concepts and use of tools in science.
A sunny day in paradise turned into one of the deadliest, most catastrophic natural disasters ever. An earthquake deep in the Indian ocean caused tsunamis that battered countries from Southeast Asia all the way to Africa. Hundreds of thousands of people died. Millions were left without food and shelter. Whole cites were wiped out not unlike from a nuclear explosion. The only solace is the creation of an early warning system that has already proven its worth.
Katrina is the most destructive hurricane in history, made worse by inadequate infrastructure, political squabbling and mismanaged emergency response. Much of the Gulf Coast was damaged and New Orleans was almost entirely submerged. Years later, with destruction still evident, people question the wisdom of returning.
Grades: 9-12; Language Arts. This series features six island women who are distinguished poets in our community: Kathy Song, Juliet Kono, Carolyn Sinavaiana, Mahealani Perez-Wendt, Brandy Nalani McDougall, and Amalia Bueno. These women come from varied ethnic backgrounds and have all worked hard to contribute to the growing presence of a literary community in Hawai'i. Many of them are dedicated teachers who have mentored others to become writers, and many of them also enjoy a national reputation. Each segment features one poet speaking about their lives and work, and sharing several of their poems on camera. Amalia B. Bueno's poetry and short stories have been recently published in Tinfish 20, Bamboo Ridge 98, Walang Hiya: Literature Taking Risks Toward Liberatory Practice and Growing Up Filipino II. Born in Manila and raised in Honoulu, she has worked in public relations, community development, and policy research and is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in English from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-12; Subject Areas: Sustainability, STEM. (2017) In this episode: White sand lizards, nuclear material detection, transforming flat shapes into 3D, Darwin the Robot, smart concrete, and much more!
Audience: Students; Grades: 9-12; Science.Scientists demonstrate how the struggle for survival drives evolution, introducing molluscs as animals that know the secrets of this competition to survive. Using the example of the abalone, introduces typical mollusk construction: the radula, shell, mantle and body design. Also films how abalones escape their predators by outrunning them, while cockles and moon snails use their foot to dig or remain firmly shut against their enemies. Biologist, Peter Ward, captures a chambered nautilus to demonstrate how evolution transformed a bottom feeder into a battleship-like warrior with spicules that increased its buoyancy. Also reveals how evolutionary features of the nervous system and body design of the squid propells it through the ocean and how the octopus developed a unique body design, camoflauge, and a large brain. For Teacher's Guides go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLffk5QOEpyUGs2NnQ3cjRETGlnZHB3RjN3VkRrSC1wZWxUQ3pwWGFxRV9lYlU&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 9-12; Science.In Hawaii, marine biologist, Gail Kaalialii, studies a variety of echinoderms explaining how echinodern symmetry and body design have enabled these brainless animals to survive and flouish. In the second segment, Don Wobber, a retired sculptor, shows his underwater films that capture sea stars' fight for dominance. Other close-up photography and computer animation demonstrate their hydraulically powered tube feet. A third segment films how sea stars attack mussels with these tube feet and externalize their stomachs to feed. The aggressive, twenty-armed Pycnopodia is filmed as it captures snails and other prey. A final segment follows paleontologist Andrew Smith as gathers fossil evidence that echinoderms evolved a sedimentary, plant-like life that resulted in the great diversity of echinoderms found today. For Teacher's Guides go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLffk5QOEpyUGs2NnQ3cjRETGlnZHB3RjN3VkRrSC1wZWxUQ3pwWGFxRV9lYlU&usp=sharing
In Tampa Bay, marine biologist, Linda Holland, studies amphioxus, finding this simple animal with its novochord, clearly linked to human evolution. Her studies pinpoint the evolution of body form in amphioxus, chicks, and other animals with a backbone. She also explains how the duplication of genes enabled larger animals to evolve. The second segment recalls the evolutionary period dominated by fishes and the emergence of tetrapods on land. Paleontologist Jenny Clack, recalls how she discovered the transitional form. The segment also studies monitor lizards as examples of the development of tetrapods. The third segment relates amphioxus to the evolution of dinosaurs. In Montana, Kristi Curry-Rogers, a palentologist, explains why she believes dinosaurs grew large very quickly. The fourth segment explains how mammals evolved after the extinction of the dinosaurs. For Teacher's Guides go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLffk5QOEpyUGs2NnQ3cjRETGlnZHB3RjN3VkRrSC1wZWxUQ3pwWGFxRV9lYlU&usp=sharin
Audience: General; Subject: Social Studies.(2015) Hidden in the back of Manoa Valley, the Lyon Arboretum is a historic site that serves as a botanical garden, an educational institution, and a research facility. The documentary tells the history of the arboretum and the vital role it played in preserving our watershed. The many present-day activities of the arboretum are also featured including its work in preserving and exhibiting Native Hawaiian and exotic plants, its role as an educational institution and its role as a research facility.
Audience: General; Subject: Social Studies.(2015) This documentary covers the activities of the Hawaiian Rare Plant Program at the Lyon Arboretum, a program that seeks to propagate and preserve the most endangered plant species in our islands. The documentary explores the program's three main components: a seed bank, a micro-propagation laboratory, and its greenhouse facilities. The processes of seed storage and micro-propagation are explained, and several rarely seen endangered plants are featured.
Audience: Students; Grades: 6-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2014) Designing Life. Man has been doing it for over 10,000 years. You may not be aware of it, but we are surrounded by "Superlife," life-forms manipulated by Man. Superlife looks at the stories of how these super organisms came to permeate our planet, and how the latest science is pushing the boundaries to create more with less time and resources and at a higher quality. Note- Superlife explores the science of how mankind is manipulating life for its benefit. The series does not attempt to address the concerns surrounding cloning, genetically modified organisms or the ethics of certain farming practices.