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Access this file to print and use the Moenahā template in your curriculum planning. **Note: translations for this template's sections are included in your Blue PD folder.**

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UPLOAD YOUR GROUPʻS LAU KUKUI HERE! (Please put your group members names in the caption of your upload)

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UPLOAD YOUR GROUPʻS LAU KUKUI HERE! (Please put your group members names in the caption of your upload)

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In our September PD, we worked in teams to create a lesson plan targeting different age groups. 1 member from each breakout group will be responsible to upload the teamʻs Lau Kukui lesson plan here.
Please be sure to add your groupʻs grade level and each members name to the caption of your lau kukui.

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Use this resource in your lesson planning and as a tool in your place-based curriculum development.

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Kumu Spotlight: Kumu Katie Kealoha, Waiʻanae High School

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Kumu Spotlight: Kumu Katie Kealoha, Waiʻanae High School

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Kumu Katie used this website in her ahupuaʻa assignment the day of her filming. It may be useful for you all in your lessons!

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UPLOAD A PICTURE OF YOUR MINI AHUPUAʻA HERE!

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UPLOAD A PICTURE OF YOUR MINI AHUPUAʻA HERE!

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Help us document our experience together!
Upload a picture of your mini ahupuaʻa here.

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Here is a copy of our September Mālama Kai PD. Feel free to return here to review any info shared in our PD for your lesson planning.

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Kumu Katie used this website in her ahupuaʻa assignment the day of her filming. It may be useful for you all in your lessons!

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Presentations on the Atlas of Hawaiian Watersheds & Their Aquatic Resources were given recently by:

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Aloha gang, don't forget to sign your posts so we are able to see who posted what.  Mahalo!

P.S. I am editing this post because I forgot to sign it...ironic....unlike the Alanis Morissette song.
-Mark

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-Leolani

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Crossing my fingers that I followed directions and my olena will grow! 😳

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HONOLULU- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found the waters around Hawaii's Kamilo Beach and Tern Island to be impaired by plastic pollution and ordered state officials to take corrective actions under the Clean Water Act. The decision overrules repeated attempts by Hawaii officials to deny evidence of plastic pollution harming bodies of water around the islands.

The Center for Biological Diversity, Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii and Surfrider Foundation sued the EPA in February for accepting Hawaii's annual list of impaired waters, which ignored evidence of plastic pollution in 17 bodies of water submitted by the groups. In response, the EPA ordered Hawaii's Department of Health to examine that evidence and submit a new list.

When Hawaii again failed to list the notoriously polluted Tern Island and Kamilo Beach (nicknamed Plastic Beach), EPA Regional Administrator John W. Busterud unilaterally decided to list them this week. He ordered Hawaii to include them in water-quality management plans to reduce the impact of plastic pollution on its waters, beaches and wildlife.

"Kamilo Beach is notorious for being covered in plastic, and this EPA finding will push state and federal agencies to face that reality," said Maxx Phillips, the Center's Hawaii director. "Ocean plastic pollution is a crisis here in Hawaii. It chokes wildlife and carries toxins onto our beaches and through our food web. Hawaii's Department of Health is now being forced to finally address this threat."

Plastic pollution in Hawaii ranges from microplastics that contaminate coastal waters and harm marine life to massive piles of plastic waste along Kamilo Beach. The Clean Water Act requires the EPA to designate as "impaired" all water bodies that fail to meet state water-quality standards. Once a water body is designated as impaired, officials must take action to reduce the pollution.

"We are encouraged that the EPA is taking steps to address plastic pollution in the ocean and on our beaches, as a major cause of water quality impairment," said Angela Howe, Surfrider Foundation's legal director. "Our Hawaii chapters and entire chapter network across the country are committed to addressing the plight of plastic pollution, including through the use of the full extent of our clean water laws, such as here."

Plastic pollution poses a serious threat to Hawaii's water quality and vulnerable marine ecosystems. Microplastics, or plastics that have broken into tiny pieces, are emerging as a major threat to marine wildlife and water quality. Microplastics can absorb environmental toxins and get eaten by fish and other marine life and eventually be consumed by humans.

"While we appreciate this monumental step with the listing of these two sites as impaired, there is immense work still to be done. Most of the waters and coastlines of Hawaii are plagued by marine debris and micro plastic, leaving them unquestionably impaired," said Rafael Bergstrom, executive director of Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii. "Our Department of Health should be concerned about the severity of the issue and not evading responsibility. We must hold the fossil fuel industry and plastic producers responsible for this unnecessary damage."

Plastic pollution has been accumulating in the oceans for decades and is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050. Much of that plastic comes from Asian countries that process American plastic waste. But surveys have found a significant percentage of the plastics contaminating Hawaii's waters originate within the state.

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EPA: Waters Around Two Hawaii Beaches Impaired by Plastic Pollution

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HONOLULU- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found the waters around Hawaii's Kamilo Beach and Tern Island to be impaired by plastic pollution and ordered state officials to take corrective actions under the Clean Water Act. The decision overrules repeated attempts by Hawaii officials to deny evidence of plastic pollution harming bodies of water around the islands.

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https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/oFIUNfmvSn4zqitW1dLKwmneJQnAJ0V2wyaEujQZQUvYYEKGYvRgLuZR9taYZhVP.sRhsGt2oShCRf6ioPasscode: NIKK_Fall22

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Sign in to your Zoom account to join a meeting, update your profile, change your settings, and more!

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Now I want to buy me fish to put in the ahupuaʻa

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My group was Sharon, Dayna, Val, Iʻm not sure who else. Not sure if I was supposed to make my own.

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Uploaded by Leolani
Hui: Leolani, Sharon, Dayna, Linda, Momi & Val

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E kala mai for the things on my table.

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Sharon & Dayna collaboration curriculum design 

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Sharon & Dayna collaboration curriculum design 

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Lau kukui session #1

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My Life Cycle in a Jar. Kalo and I'a

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Sharon

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Plan to use in the classroom. Mahalo