Welcome Educators
This section is dedicated to you, to support your efforts in the classroom. Please peruse the Classroom Opportunities, Field Trips, Environmental Education Mini-Grants, Online Resource List, Reference Book List, and Children’s Book List pages and let us know how we can further assist you.
Art Contest: The Earth is Our Playground
Spending time OUTDOORS is a very exciting and educational way to learn about this great planet we call home. Think about the interesting and exciting ways you interact with nature and express it through art! Any student enrolled in a Hawai’i School can participate. The deadline is February 29, 2008. For more information click here.
Kids Garden News
Click here for the January 2008 Kids Garden News. This month’s lessons: Greening the Classroom. Visit National Gardening Association’s kidsgardening.org
Resources
The Kokua Hawai’i Foundation is compiling a library of curriculum and lessons for teachers on a variety of environmental education topics. The Foundation will offer small grants to teachers for lessons/curriculum with an environmental focus. If you have a new lesson or curriculum idea that you would like to share please contact us.
“In the end, we will conserve only what we love,
we will love only what we understand,
we will understand only what we are taught.”
-Baba Dioun