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.
Green Fundraising
Tired of the same old school fundraising drives — bake sales, car washes or wrapping paper offers?
School fundraising does not have to involve high-calorie sweets, disposable junk you don’t need, want or may harm the environment. We all know how desperate our schools are for funds—especially now—but how to raise funds in a green and healthy way? Many schools continue to profit from healthy and environmentally friendly fundraising activities. Download the PDF for some of our favorite ideas.
Classroom & Home Activities that Simplify the Holidays
1. Organize a school recycling drive or toy swap and earn money for classroom supplies or a holiday service project.
2. Have keiki make a “recycled” gift or card out of reused materials.
3. Have keiki make “Gifts of Service” coupons for family and friends: Good for one free car wash, one hour of gardening, one homemade meal, etc.
Please visit our Simplify the Holidays page for more ideas.
The EcoTipping Points Project
EcoTippingPoints.org features nearly a hundred environmental success stories, collected from around the world by a team of environmental scientists and journalists. Despite the diversity of detail, the stories have a similar script. A critical action – a lever that called an “EcoTipping Point” – turns environmental decline around, setting a community and its environmental support system on a course toward sustainability. In addition to the stories, this website offers lessons learned from the stories and how communities can identify and create their own EcoTipping Points.
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. Click here to learn more about our school programs. 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