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Exploring Hawaiian Biodiversity & Indigenous Knowledge w ELA

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Grade Level Grades 11-12
Resource Type Lesson Plan
Standards Alignment
Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards

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In this lesson, students analyze the biodiversity represented in the Kumulipo creation chant and create a children’s book about protecting species.

Step 1 - Inquire: Students discuss origin stories and why stories are important to understanding a place.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students read the Kumulipo, the creation chant of the Hawaiian people, and learn how biodiversity within the chant is threatened by climate change.

Step 3 - Inspire: Students collaborate to create a children’s book about plants and animals from the Kumulipo, including how to protect these species from climate change.

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:

  • Recognize components of biodiversity in origin and creation stories.
  • Describe biodiversity in the context of relationships between life forms in Hawai‘i.
  • Identify how species in Hawai‘i are affected by climate change.
  • Identify ways to protect biodiversity in Hawai‘i.
  • Write an informative paragraph about a Hawaiian native species.

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Lesson Plan
January 11, 2024
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Standards

Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).
Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
Design, evaluate, and refine a solution for reducing the impacts of human activities on the environment and biodiversity.
Evaluate the evidence supporting claims that changes in environmental conditions may result in (1) increases in the number of individuals of some species, (2) the emergence of new species over time, and (3) the extinction of other species.

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