Aloha ʻĀina
Enduring Understanding: What are the characteristics that make up a culture?
* Sugar Cane Land: What will become of it?
Essential Questions: What are the characteristics that make up a culture?
* What is Aloha ʻĀina? How can you engage in it?
* How do people influence place and vice versa?
* Why is the relationship between ʻāina and its people important?
* How is this relationship relevant/ important to me as a Hawaiian?
* How do I respond to the needs of others?
* How do my choices contribute to the greater good?
* What is my kuleana?
* Why is perpetuating my Hawaiian culture important?
Objectives:
Students look at historical or current issues and develop a problem statement around Hawaiʻi. Guided by their inquiry around Essential Questions, students engage in research using the Design Thinking process that leads them to propose possible solutions to the issues. Students present their findings, solutions and personal answers to EQs in a format of their choice.
E Ola! Learner Outcomes
Aloha ʻĀina:(Hawaiian patriotism; love for the land and its people): Students develop an in-depth relationship with places and communities that hold significance to them and strive to improve the wellbeing of such places, engaging in experiences that foster aloha for and lifelong allegiance to ka lāhui Hawai‘i and ka pae ‘āina o Hawaiʻi.
Memory Verse:
For I know the plans I have for you,” says the LORD. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11
Value:
Kuleana – What is your responsibility in creating a change in the world. If you donʻt see things being down to benefit your life or your surroundings, than be that change! “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”