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Teachers Guide
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Organization
of Teacher’s Guide
The
Teacher’s Guide
is organized by grade level, with each grade level unit
in a separate section.
The grade level units contain the following elements:
Unit Introduction
A general background on the topics presented
and a description of the lessons.
The Introduction includes the following
components:
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Unit Map –
an overview for the teacher of the standards,
essential question, key concept and assessment
for each lesson. |
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Rubrics –
for assessing students’ performance on the
culminating papers and projects |
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Student Assessment
Overview (also referred to as
“Our Challenge” in Gr. 3) –
a “map” of the unit that provides
students with expectations and a list of Learning
Log sheets that they will complete as formative
assessment. This overview includes a cover that
students can use for their Learning Logs.
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Instructional Activities
Each unit includes four to six lessons
that are designed to be taught sequentially. The lessons
include background information for teachers, DOE rubrics
for individual benchmarks, and a list of materials needed
and materials provided, which include pages that are
to be
duplicated for students such as:
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Student readings
· Maps
· Learning Log sheets
· Data sheets
· Activity cards
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The
teaching suggestions included in each lesson and the
estimated time for completing the lesson have been refined
based on a field test that was conducted with teachers
during the course of the project. The teaching suggestions
are designed to help students meet the standards, but
they are, of course, only suggestions since there are
many different and effective ways to approach the activities.
Appendices
The Appendices include the following documents
to help prepare your students for field trips:
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Management Tips for Field Trips
· Oli (Hawaiian and English versions
of selected chants)
· Safety Guidelines for Field Trips
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UNIT
CD
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The
CDs provided with this teacher’s
guideeach unit contain files that are
designed to supplement the unit. These
CDs include the following files include:
· Oli (Chants) –
a folder with audio files of selected
oli to introduce students to protocol.
The Hawaiian and English versions of these
chants are provided in written form in
the Appendices.
· PowerPoint Presentations
– Most of the units have one or
two PowerPoint presentations that supplement
the lessons and highlight key features
of the environments students are investigating.
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Project Web Site
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The
project Web site link is http://alohaaina.thepaf.org.
The Web page includes:
- announcements
- registration
forms for workshops.
- Contact information for arranging the field
trips suggested for your grade level.
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Aloha 'Aina Video
The
project video, provided on DVD, is designed to introduce
your students to the vision of the project.
That vision is that everyone in Hawaiÿi lives by
the values of aloha 'aina and that communities work
together to achieve their vision of a healthy environment
in harmony with the land and the sea. We welcome you
to join us in the journey.
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