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Kipapa Elementary kindergarten drew self portrait emojis and wrote short sentences introducing themselves. Using a circle for the face – the students draw eyes and a mouth. Some students may want to add a nose, ears, and hair and even a body. The only rule for being able to animate the drawing is that the eyes need to be open and the mouth closed.
Kindergarten – Grade 2 (Special Education)
During the summer at Maunawili Elementary school Special Education students entering grades 1 & 2 drew self portrait emojis and mounted them on a big green cut out of a kalo leaf. Each student practiced introducing themselves and what was special about them. After practicing their voice over they recorded their voices on an Ipad using the Animate anything app. Once all of the kalo self portraits were animated, they planted their kalo emoji in a cardboard kalo lo‘i (patch.) The project culminated with each student getting a keiki (baby) kalo plant to plant in a pot to take home.
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Kipapa Elementary 1st graders chose an animal they wanted to use for their animation project. They first did some research about the animal- where they live, what they eat and some other interesting facts. They used the circle to draw the animal’s face and added the animals body. Each student learned how to take a digital still image of their drawing, import into the app Animate anything, animate the eyes and mouth, write a short script about the animal. Record themselves reading their script and watch their Animated animal come alive with their own voice.
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At Blanche Pope Elementary the 2nd grade was using the ‘Aina in the school curriculum. The ‘Aina lesson the teachers chose for their students to create an animated short was ‘Aina Food Pyramid – the tale of two bananas.
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Blanche Pope 3rd graders did the lesson “Who I am”_________ researched their names, the meaning of their names, who gave them their name and how to introduced themselves in Hawaiian for their 1st class in introduction to animation.
As a science project that utilized their school garden the Blanche Pope 3rd graders learned about worms – composting & vermicasting. Students teamed up and produced short videos with animated drawings of worms sharing their story about composting and vermicasting.
Heeia Elementary 3rd grade teachers chose to build creative writing skills with their students. The students wrote about two animals blended together to create a new animal.
Heeia 3rd graders were so engaged with creating their first animations they created animations of symbols or icons that illustrate the branches of government to incorporate the common core standards for civics.
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Overview: As a social studies and Hawaiian history requirement – all 4th graders must learn about the Ahupua‘a land management system of the Ancient Hawaiians. All three pilot school 4th graders produced videos exploring the way Hawaiians were able to thrive in Hawaii by sustaining all of the natural resources in these remote islands.
Blanche Pope Elementary – 4th Graders researched the different roles and responsibilities of cultural practitioners in the Hawaiian ahupua‘a (land management) system. Illustrations of ancient Hawaiians in the ahupua‘a were drawn by the school kupuna and a Waimānalo cultural education partner. Students wrote voice overs in first person for each practitioner and recorded their voice overs. They also created more illustrations of life in the ahupua‘a that were edited into a 5 minute animated video of the Hawaiian sustainable land management system of the ahupa‘a.
Heeia Elementary 4th graders chose what cultural practitioner they wanted to research and teams were formed around each practitioner. Each team researched what their practitioners roles and responsibilities were – wrote a script and created animated avatars of the practitioner. Students also drew backgrounds depicting what the islands looked like. Each team was responsible for producing a short animation of their practitioner. The final editing of the ahupua‘a video incorporated all of the practitioners and a voice over introduction and closing.
Kipapa Elementary 4th graders looked at the Hawaiian values that guided the way the Hawaiians lived in harmony with their land and their people. The overarching theme explored was Citizenship/Kupa. With (5) 4th grade classes – each class selected a Hawaiian value and researched how this particular value played out in everyday life of the Ahupua‘a and were integral to the Old Hawaiian land management ahupua‘a system. The 5 Hawaiian values were: Fairness/Kaulike, Caring/Malama & Responsibility/Kuleana, Trustworthiness/Paulele & Respect/Ho‘ihi. After each class edited their video – all five class videos were woven together to share the cumulative learning of all of the Kipapa 4th graders.
At Heeia Elementary School, students in 4th, 5th and 6th grade focused on creating a poem and learning how to develop a multi-media version of their poem using Crazy Talk & IMOVIE video editing programs.
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At Blanche Pope and He‘eia Elementary the 5th grade chose science experiments to learn digital media skills. The basic video production skills of storyboarding, recording video and audio, directing, camera talent and video editing were taught.
Heeia Elementary students self produced videos including all scripting and shooting. This was a project that combined some scientific techniques along with digital media.
Heeia Elementary students also produced a short news segment including scripting, interviews, and shooting video.
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Overview: The 6th graders from both pilot schools Blanche Pope & Heeia chose science projects to learn digital media skills. The class was divided into smaller science teams (3 – 5 students in a team). Each student rotated between the different video production jobs: camera, audio, directing, & camera talent. A few classes chose to create avatars to animate their science project videos.
Kaneohe Elementary – The Story of My Name
The Story of my name was implemented by the LDM team who worked with Kāne‘ohe Elementary school students and educators in their culture/place based alternative classroom. The classroom of (23) 6th grade students, comprised of 13 girls and 10 boys, was a mix of students identified with mild cognitive challenges and students who were having difficulties succeeding in a traditional general education classroom setting. The learning objective was to teach the students how to use the Ipad to shoot digital stills & video, create a self-portrait animated avatar, and edit the short animation using green screen editing software.
Kahaluu Key Project Youth – ʻOlelo Noʻeau… to live by
Kahaluu Key Project Youth – ʻOlelo Noʻeau… to live by
Kahaluu Key Project Youth – ʻOlelo Noʻeau… to live by
King Intermediate
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Blanche Pope Elementary – Garden
Blanche Pope Elementary – Vegetables
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‘Aina Momona – We were able to partner with Blanche Pope Elementary School 6th grade classes to adopt a portion of shoreline ‘aina near Muliwai’olena. Students gained knowledge, interest, reverance and appreciation for native plants while learning about invasive plants. We removed invasive and non-native plants and weeds, and replaced them with native shoreline plants, following native Hawaiian protocols of ‘oli as we entered and departed the area. This led to their sense of kuleana (responsibility) to this ‘aina within their community, which we trust will carry on long after this final year at Pope Elementary.
Students, ‘ohana and staff from Blanche Pope Elementary School came together with community partners to make a difference on Earth Day, 2017. The day consisted of activities such as the creation of a 1/8 mile walk path on campus, planting native ‘Ohia plant seeds, working on our own Kamalalani campus mala kalo, and learning about and tasting nutritious treats!
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Visiting current geographical and cultural sites of the ahupua‘a of their school
Malama ‘aina – We were able to partner with Blanche Pope Elementary School 6th grade classes to adopt a portion of shoreline ‘aina near Muliwai’olena. Students gained knowledge, interest, reverance and appreciation for native plants while learning about invasive plants. We removed invasive and non-native plants and weeds, and replaced them with native shoreline plants, following native Hawaiian protocols of ‘oli as we entered and departed the area. This led to their sense of kuleana (responsibility) to this ‘aina within their community, which we trust will carry on long after this final year at Pope Elementary.
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Blanche Pope Elementary Mala Experts after school program – “A Mala Expert is a person who learns to take care of the land, then pay it forward to teach others how to do the same. The land was here way before us, so we are stewards that have the responsibility to take care of it. Our school gardens have provided our students and community with so much experiences and we want to share it with the world!” Kumu Lily Uta’i
Kahaluʻu Key Project – Holomua: culture/place based program for Kahalu‘u Elementary Transitioning 6th graders
During the summer at Maunawili Elementary School, Special Education students entering grades 1 & 2 drew self portrait emojis and mounted them on a big green cut out of a kalo leaf. Each student practiced introducing themselves and what was special about them. After practicing their voice over, they recorded their voices on an iPad using the Animate Anything app. Once all of the kalo self portraits were animated, they planted their kalo emoji in a cardboard kalo lo‘i (patch.) The project culminated with each student getting a keiki (baby) kalo plant to plant in a pot to take home.
Kipapa Elementary Summer School – scavenger hunt, kuleana song