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Aloha! This year in my 6th grade classroom, my students will be participating in a year-long project based learning unit. Our unit is related to examining personal identity in relation to the place we call home - Hawai鈥檌. The essential question is 鈥淗ow can we feed the land that feeds us?鈥 In Hawaiian history, the 鈥榓ina or land is a very important part of our indigenous culture and our students will ultimately build a garden within our school.
Almost half of all my students are native Hawaiian and our team of teachers wants to create a curriculum that reflects their culture. Rather than reading and researching literature from a host culture, we want to revive the Native Hawaiian culture that was lost to colonization almost 200 years ago. The need for this project is based on my students' needs. Often, students will ask me specific questions about certain Hawaiian place names and the meaning behind them, and even with research, I can鈥檛 find the answer. Native Hawaiians passed down their knowledge orally instead of through writing. When students start to research online about their heritage, they might not be able to find this specific information in writing. I would like to empower my students with Native Hawaiian knowledge about their culture and raise their academic achievement in the classroom.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, I will not be able to have a guest speakers in person but I want to invite a virtual presenter. Professor Jessica (Kahealani) Lono is an expert in the Native Hawaiian community. She will be used as a research support in my classroom. Students will prepare questions and have a discussion with her about translation of Hawaiian words into their deeper meanings, native Hawaiian mythology, and native plants.
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Aloha! This year in my 6th grade classroom, my students will be participating in a year-long project based learning unit. Our unit is related to examining personal identity in relation to the place we call home - Hawai鈥檌. The essential question is 鈥淗ow can we feed the land that feeds us?鈥 In Hawaiian history, the 鈥榓ina or land is a very important part of our indigenous culture and our students will ultimately build a garden within our school.
Almost half of all my students are native Hawaiian and our team of teachers wants to create a curriculum that reflects their culture. Rather than reading and researching literature from a host culture, we want to revive the Native Hawaiian culture that was lost to colonization almost 200 years ago. The need for this project is based on my students' needs. Often, students will ask me specific questions about certain Hawaiian place names and the meaning behind them, and even with research, I can鈥檛 find the answer. Native Hawaiians passed down their knowledge orally instead of through writing. When students start to research online about their heritage, they might not be able to find this specific information in writing. I would like to empower my students with Native Hawaiian knowledge about their culture and raise their academic achievement in the classroom.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, I will not be able to have a guest speakers in person but I want to invite a virtual presenter. Professor Jessica (Kahealani) Lono is an expert in the Native Hawaiian community. She will be used as a research support in my classroom. Students will prepare questions and have a discussion with her about translation of Hawaiian words into their deeper meanings, native Hawaiian mythology, and native plants.