Life Skills Lessons and Activities

Lessons and Resources

Aloha Tree

Grades

4-6

Description

Reinforcing daily acts of kindness

Believe – Be a Gift

4-8

Identify & celebrate everyone’s gifts

By Observing, One Learns

6-8

Developing the ability to focus

Co-Creating Protocols

4-8

Establishing the way “to be”

Collaborative Video Production

6-12

Communicate a message using video

Collecting Community Histories

4-12

Capturing Kupuna Wisdom and Community History

Common Ground

4-12

Exploring similarities & differences

Community Service

6-8

Learning by serving community

Culture Collage – Who We Are

6-8

Creating through collaboration

Growing Pono

4-6

Using Appreciative Inquiry to cause change

Halaʻea – A Greedy Chief

6-12

Learning about kuleana and community roles through story

Happy Birthday

6-12

Learn by watching & listening

Human Jan Ken Po

4-12

Having fun with communication

I Am Pono!

4-8

Facts and discussion prompts about bullying

I Belong – The 4 Bs

4-8

Group connections & how they feel

Lau + Lau

6-8

Learn & compare Hawaiian counting

Leading the Pack

7-12

School mascots & how we relate

Lonoikamakahiki – My Totem

4-12

Makahiki games & leadership

My Community Lens

6-12

Capturing community images

Our Community Collage

6-12

Creating through collaboration

Perspectives

4-8

Understanding different points of view

Shaping Up

7-12

Hands on leadership and team building

Slam Poetry – I Got Issues

4-12

Hawai‘i Slam Poets personify issues impacting youth

Sticking Together

4-12

Learning to work together in unity

The Golden Rule

6-12

A universal guide to living pono

Think Before You Act

8-12

Strategies for Kōnane and life

Truth, Justice, and the Pono Way

9-12

Living the Pono way