Reinforcing daily acts of kindness
Students will be reinforced for doing daily acts of kindness, which are “baby steps” to community service.
Aloha Tree
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Community
- Grade: 4-6
Are We Smiling Yet?
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Self
- Grade: 4-12
Genuine? Fake? Smiles cause…
Students will:
- Increase ability to determine a genuine or fake smile
- Learn how smiling can affect your thoughts & feelings
- Understand that smiles positively affect others around you
Bowl of Light
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Self
- Grade: 4-12
Keeping your inner light shining bright
Students will:
– Develop a deeper understanding of self and inner strength
– Participate in group problem solving that encourages positive solutions
Collaborative Video Production
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Community
- Grade: 6-12
Communicate a message using video
Students will:
* Develop interest and knowledge about a relevant issue
* Co-create a video production plan, including storyboard and script
* Co-produce a video that shares a powerful message
* Develop collaboration, communication and writing skills by working on a production team
Collecting Community Histories
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Community
- Grade: 4-12
Capturing Kupuna Wisdom and Community History
Students will:
* Increase understanding of their community through research and interviewing
* Apply language arts skills including critical thinking, questioning, listening, speaking, and writing
* Work in collaboration to document and perpetuate community wisdom and history
Common Ground
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Community
- Grade: 4-12
Exploring similarities & differences
Students will learn what group members have in common.
Community Service
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Community
- Grade: 6-8
Learning by serving community
Students will:
– Build connections to their community by giving back in a useful way
– Learn collaboration skills through authentic work experience
– Develop abilities to problem solve and create
– Identify benefits of community service
Contributions
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Community
- Grade: 4-6
Thinking about the importance of contributions
Students will:
* Learn about the importance of contributions from community members
* Participate in an activity highlighting the importance of everyone contributing
Crushed
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Self
- Grade: 4-12
How it looks & how it feels to be bullied
Students will:
* Experience and discuss a “visual message” that demonstrates the effects of bullying on any youth or adult
* Better understand the power of their words
Culture Collage – Who We Are
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Community
- Grade: 6-8
Creating through collaboration
Students will:
* Build group bonds to foster collaboration and friendships
* Learn about everyone’s interests, connections, and cultures
* Develop appreciation for diversity by learning about layers of culture
Growing Pono
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Community
- Grade: 4-6
Using Appreciative Inquiry to cause change
Students will:
* Work in collaboration to create an activity or project that promotes pono and peace in their school or community
* Follow Appreciative Inquiry steps to identify a campaign focus and design and implement their campaign steps
* Share what was accomplished by joining the E Ola Pono Campaign
Guts on the Table
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Self
- Grade: 9-12
Sharing stories & building communities
Students will:
* Deepen understanding of self and relationships with others
* Build bonds between the participants through heartfelt sharing in a safe place
Ha – Breath of Life
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Self
- Grade: 4-8
Learning the power of your breath
Students will:
* Learn the importance of breath in Hawaiian culture
* Study how important oxygen and correct breathing are for human health
Halaʻea – A Greedy Chief
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Community
- Grade: 6-12
Learning about kuleana and community roles through story
Students will:
* Learn the importance of community through the mo‘olelo (story) of Hala’ea
* Think about their own kuleana (responsibility) to community
Happy Birthday
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Community
- Grade: 6-12
Learn by watching & listening
Students will:
* Learn about each other
* Complete a task without one of their constantly used senses
* Provide an opportunity to reinforce observation skills
* Help students learn how to work together when there is a challenge
Human Jan Ken Po
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Community
- Grade: 4-8
Having fun with communication
Students will:
* Learn about different forms of communication
* Become aware of personal leadership styles through play interaction
* Build relationships within a group by having fun
I Am Pono!
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Community
- Grade: 4-8
Facts and discussion prompts about bullying
Students will:
* Review current information about bullying behaviors, roles, and impact on people
* Become familiar with appropriate ways to respond to bullying experiences
* Discuss scenarios to help students discern teasing from bullying (gr. 6)
* Review current & create new scenarios regarding ‘ole pono (not pono) behaviors (gr. 7)
* Develop a project/activity promoting pono within their school community (gr. 8)
I Belong – The 4 Bs
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Community
- Grade: 4-8
Group connections & how they feel
Students will:
* Identify groups they belong to
* Think about feelings attached to belonging to a group as well as not belonging
Lau + Lau
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Community
- Grade: 6-8
Learn & compare Hawaiian counting
Students will participate in a math activity coming from a Hawaiian cultural practice and compare what they learn to the math they practice today. The activity outcome will include creation of a Hawaiian math guide.
Leading the Pack
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Community
- Grade: 7-12
School mascots & how we relate
Participants will investigate how the characteristics and attributes of their school mascot may relate to themselves and how they, in return, can represent their school’s spirit
Line UP
- Sense of Belonging
- Grade: 7-12
LGBT awareness and sensitivity
Lonoikamakahiki – My Totem
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Community
- Grade: 4-12
Makahiki games & leadership
Students will:
* Study the story of Lonoikamakahiki to learn about leadership through a cultural lens
* Learn about and teach the basic Makahiki games and equipment use to other students
* Identify personal potential for leadership and growth through a Hawaiian social framework
My Community Lens
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Community
- Grade: 6-12
Capturing community images
Students will:
* Look at their surrounding community and environment through the lens of a camera.
* Create a mural with images of community.
* Increase collaboration and observation skills while expressing creativity and learning about their community.
My Mixed Plate
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Self
- Grade: 4-8
Exploring roots & preferences
Students will:
* Learn about family and personal connections to community and culture
* Develop deeper understandings about each other to build a strong learning community
* Create & share a collage of personal connections to Home, Host, Local, & Global cultures
Myth or Fact
- Sense of Belonging
- Grade: 7-12
LGBT awareness activity
Our Community Collage
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Community
- Grade: 6-12
Creating through collaboration
Students will:
* Discuss and select an image or topic that is important to their community
* Work in collaboration with peers to plan and complete an art project
* Make a group collage that exemplifies how individuals can collaborate to create a new “whole”.
Perspectives
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Community
- Grade: 4-8
Understanding different points of view
Students will:
* Better understand listening/communication skills
* Learn there are many ways to look at the same thing
* Be aware that our personal perspectives make us who we are
* Recognize that individual differences keep relationships interesting
* Learn that different points of view can be useful
Power of the Word
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Self
- Grade: 6-8
Learning about the power of words
Students will:
– Understand Hawaiian thinking about the power of words
– Consider how this ‘Ōlelo No’eau (historical saying) can help people think & speak pono thoughts
Promoting Pono – Preventing Huhu (Anger)
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Self
- Grade: 4-6
Examining injustice to promote pono
Students will:
* Examine the ways that injustice affects people
* Describe ways to address injustice with pono behaviors
* Understand the meaning of nonviolence by identifying nonviolent qualities
Shaping Up
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Community
- Grade: 7-12
Hands on leadership and team building
Students will:
* Practice teambuilding and communication skills
* Connect to the characteristics and attributes of a leader
Slam Poetry – I Got Issues
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Community
- Grade: 4-12
Hawai‘i Slam Poets personify issues impacting youth
Students will…
* Identify social and emotional issues that come up for many youth
* Discuss prevalent issues in their lives and/or school
* Brainstorm ways to reduce the challenges and stress they face everyday
Sticking Together
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Community
- Grade: 4-6
Learning to work together in unity
Students will:
* Experience how working together as a team can be challenging
* Learn about effective team collaboration and communication
The Four Agreements
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Self
- Grade: 7-12
Helping others; helping yourself
Students will:
* Learn about personal agreements we make that help shape who we are
* Relate ‘Ōlelo No’eau on the power of words to the Four Agreements
* Use the “The Four Agreements” to practice pono communication skills
The Golden Rule
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Community
- Grade: 6-12
A universal guide to living pono
Students will learn about the universal truth of the Golden Rule and how this understanding might be incorporated into everyday life to support e ola pono, living pono (doing the ‘right thing’).
Think Before You Act
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Community
- Grade: 8-12
Strategies for Kōnane and life
Students will:
* Create a Kōnane game set and learn how to play this game
* Be introduced to strategies for success relevant to Kōnane as well as life
* Participate in a Kōnane tournament to apply knowledge of strategies
Thinking Vs Feeling
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Self
- Grade: 6-12
Head or gut? Which to listen to…
Students will:
* Discover how to reach within for their truth
* Learn a strategy that will help individuals discern what is pono (right choice)
Truth, Justice, and the Pono Way
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Community
- Grade: 9-12
Living the Pono way
Students will:
* Learn about the Law of the Splintered Paddle
* Explore the universal concepts of justice, mercy & forgiveness
* Design and deliver a personal doctrine about “Truth, Justice & the Pono Way”
Two Wolves Inside
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Self
- Grade: 7-12
Struggling with Good vs Bad
Students will:
* Learn that every human faces the same struggle choosing to be good instead of bad.
* Provide students with new “tools” to help them have positive thoughts and feelings about themselves, others and life in general.
Main ideas to be shared during the workshop:
1. Forces of Good & Bad
2. Thoughts Become Things
3. Love is letting go of fear
4. Happiness is only a thought away
* Discuss prevalent issues in their lives and/or school
* Brainstorm ways to reduce the challenges and stress they face everyday
Words To Live By
- Sense of Belonging, Sense of Self
- Grade: 4-12
Word cards encouraging pono actions
Students will:
* Learn about or revisit the concepts “words have power” and “thoughts become things”
* Develop a pattern of reflecting on a “word of the day” and what insights they can