Video Introduction
Learn about how to use flashcards as a strategy to learn and memorize new information.
STEM Exploration Lesson
Fishing for Mental Math Strategies: E Lawaiʻa
Grades: 2-3
Time: 30 minutes
Overview
Use flashcards to learn about i‘a that live in waters surrounding the Hawaiian islands.
Materials
Goals
Objectives
Next Generation Science Standards
Materials
- Computer or other device with internet + speakers
- Optional: E Lawai’a Flashcards
Goals
- Learn about how to use flashcards as a strategy to learn and memorize new information.
- Use the E Lawaiʻa flashcards to learn about some sea life in Hawaiʻi’s waters.
Objectives
- Learn about how to create and organize flashcards from notecards;
- Learn how to use flashcards used the spaced repetition and pomodoro strategies;
- Learn to internalize information by writing definitions in your own words;
- Learn and memorize some information about the ʻamaʻama, moi, ʻopihi, heʻe, ʻula pāpapa, weke ʻā, mahimahi, and ʻahi.
Next Generation Science Standards
2-LS4-1
Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life indifferent habitats
LS4.D; 2-LS4-1
Biodiversity and Humans. There are many different kinds of living things in any area, and they exist in different places on land and in water.
Activity
Review the iʻa flashcards online, or print out your own to practice learning information about them.