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  • 3rd Grade (76)
    • Unit 1 - Shoreline Habitats (18)
      • Overview - Shoreline Habitats (1)
      • Lesson 1 - Hawaii Shoreline Habitats (2)
      • Lesson 2 - Awesome Adaptations (2)
      • Lesson 3 - Creature Feature (1)
      • Lesson 4 - Guess Who? (1)
      • Lesson 5 - Shorelines in Trouble (1)
      • Lesson 6 - My Shoreline Habitat Report (1)
    • Unit 2 - Open Ocean Habitats (16)
      • Overview - Open Ocean Habitats (1)
      • Lesson 1 - Ocean All Around (2)
      • Lesson 2 - Creature Feature (3)
      • Lesson 3 - Dare to Compare (1)
      • Lesson 4 - Eat or Be Eaten! (1)
    • Unit 3 - Coral Reef Habitat (13)
      • Overview - Coral Reef Habitat (1)
      • Lesson 1 - An Introduction to the Coral Reef Habitat (3)
      • Lesson 2 - Coral Structure and Function (2)
      • Lesson 3 - Human Impact on the Coral Reefs (4)
      • Lesson 4 - Protecting Our Coral Reefs (1)
    • Unit 4 - Navigating the Water Cycle (18)
      • Overview - Navigating the Water Cycle (1)
      • Lesson 1 - Water in My Life (1)
      • Lesson 2 - The Cycle of Water (3)
      • Lesson 3 - Close Relations: Weather, Climate, and Water (2)
      • Lesson 4 - We Are Responsible Water Users! (3)
      • Lesson 5 - A Water Conference (1)
    • Unit 5 - Humpback Whales 101 (10)
      • Overview - Humpback Whale 101 (1)
      • Lesson 1 - Anatomy of a Humpback Whale (2)
      • Lesson 2 - Whale Feast Feeding Discovery Lab (1)
      • Lesson 3 - Humpback Whale Behaviors (4)
      • Lesson 4 - Be a Whale Researcher (2)
    • Unit 6 - Predicting and Tracking Hurricanes (12)
      • Overview - Predicting and Tracking Hurricanes (1)
      • Lesson 1 - Hurricane Awareness (2)
      • Lesson 2 - Hurricane Formation (1)
      • Lesson 3 - Who's Watching for You? (3)
      • Lesson 4 - Hurricane Preparedness (1)
      • Lesson 5 - Hurricane Warning (2)
      • Lesson 6 - Taking Action (1)
  • 4th Grade (127)
    • Unit 1 - Island Formations (14)
      • Overview - Island Formations (1)
      • Lesson 1 - Where in the World do I Live? (2)
      • Lesson 2 - Patterns in the Hawaiian Islands (3)
      • Lesson 3 - How Did the Island Chain Form? (2)
      • Lesson 4 - Changing Islands (2)
      • Lesson 5 - The Formation of the Hawaiian Archipelago-A Play (1)
    • Unit 2 - Weather and Wave Patterns (24)
      • Overview - Weather and Wave Patterns (1)
      • Extension Lesson (1)
      • Lesson 1 - Why Do We Want to Know? (1)
      • Lesson 2 - How Do We Make Predictions? (4)
      • Lesson 3 - Waves (2)
      • Lesson 4 - Extreme Forecasting (11)
      • Lesson 5 - Weather Safety Campaign (1)
    • Unit 3 - Aquatic Food Chains (17)
      • Overview - Aquatic Food Chains (1)
      • Lesson 1 - Searching for Clues in Cells (2)
      • Lesson 2 - Food Chains and Food Webs in an Ecosystem (3)
      • Lesson 3 - Ecosystem in a Bottle (1)
      • Lesson 4 - Taking a Closer Look at Seaweeds (1)
      • Lesson 5 - Mariculture and Aquaculture (1)
    • Unit 4 - The Life and Times of the Humpback Whale (15)
      • Overview - Life and Times of Humpback Whales (1)
      • Lesson 1 - Where did the Whales Come From? (3)
      • Lesson 2 - A Humpback Whale's World (4)
      • Lesson 3 - Harmonizing with Humpbacks (2)
      • Lesson 4 - Life Cycle of Humpback Whales (3)
    • Unit 5 - Threatened and Endangered Species (20)
      • Overview - Threatened and Endangered Species (1)
      • Lesson 1 - Are these Animals Threatened, Endangered, or Extinct? (2)
      • Lesson 2 - Taking a Closer Look (1)
      • Lesson 3 - Changes in Environmental Conditions (2)
      • Lesson 4 - Guess Who (5)
      • Lesson 5 - Species in Jeopardy! (1)
      • Lesson 6 - Extension A Public Service Announcement (1)
    • Unit 6 - Beach Detectives (18)
      • Overview - Beach Detectives (1)
      • Lesson 1 - Beach Habitats "Scene of the Crime" (2)
      • Lesson 2 - Hawaiian Beach Sands "Crime Scene Bio" (1)
      • Lesson 3 - Pollution "The Suspect" (1)
      • Lesson 4 - Life at the Beach "Examining the Crime Scene" (1)
      • Lesson 5 - Trash Hounds "Crime Scene Conclusions" (1)
      • Lesson 6 - Crime Scene Report (1)
    • Unit 7 - Marine Protected Areas (9)
      • Overview - Marine Protected Areas (1)
      • Lesson 1 - What Makes a Healthy Marine Ecosystem (2)
      • Lesson 3 - What is a Marine Protected Area? (3)
      • Lesson 4 - Marine Protected Areas All Over (1)
      • Lesson 5 - Creating a Marine Protected Area (1)
    • Unit 8 - Ocean Geography and Geology (22)
      • Overview - Ocean Geography and Geology (3)
      • Lesson 1 - A Watery World (3)
      • Lesson 2 - Into The Deep (4)
      • Lesson 3 - A Moving Crust (6)
      • Lesson 4 - Ocean Floor Geology (2)
  • 5th Grade (84)
    • Unit 1 - The Wonderful World of Corals (13)
      • Overview - The Wonderful World of Corals (1)
      • Lesson 1 - Living Spaces of the Coral Reef Habitat (2)
      • Lesson 2 - Everybody has a Role in a Coral Reef (2)
      • Lesson 3 - Hungry Reef Fish (1)
      • Lesson 4 - Invertebrates on the Reef (2)
      • Lesson 5 - Vertebrates on the Reef (2)
      • Lesson 6 - Coral Reef Ecosystems (1)
    • Unit 2 - Life in a Wetland (9)
      • Overview - Life in a Wetland (1)
      • Lesson 1 - The Wetland Ecosystem (2)
      • Lesson 2 - Nature's Water Filter (1)
      • Lesson 3 - Are Hawai‘i’s Wetlands Changing? (3)
      • Lesson 4 - Wetland Investigators (1)
    • Unit 3 - Climate Change (20)
      • Overview - Climate Change (1)
      • Lesson 1 - Describing Hawaii's Weather and Climate (2)
      • Lesson 2 - How Can We Predict Weather with Technology? (4)
      • Lesson 3 - Climate of Our Past (6)
      • Lesson 4 - Impacts of Climate Change (8)
    • Unit 4 - Land Beneath the Sea (15)
      • Overview - The Land Beneath the Sea (1)
      • Lesson 1 - The Earth is Cracking Up (2)
      • Lesson 2 - Mountains, Valleys and Plains, Oh My! (1)
      • Lesson 3 - Seafloor Profiling (1)
      • Lesson 4 - Multibeam Mapping (2)
    • Unit 5 - Living Resources of the Ocean (14)
      • Overview - Living Resources of the Ocean (1)
      • Lesson 1 - Understanding Food Chains and Webs (2)
      • Lesson 2 - An Ocean of Energy (2)
      • Lesson 3 - Seafood and Human Health (1)
      • Lesson 4 - Sustaining Our Ocean Resources (3)
    • Unit 6 - Life in the Open Ocean (24)
      • Overview - Life in the Open Ocean (1)
      • Lesson 1 - Where in the World is the Open Ocean? (2)
      • Lesson 2 - Sharks-Top Predators of the Open Ocean (2)
      • Lesson 3 - What's Missing From this Picture? (2)
      • Lesson 4 - Marine Snow (2)
      • Lesson 5 - Matter Cycles and Energy Flow in the Open Ocean (1)
  • Other (29)

Hawaii Standards

  • Hawaii Content and Performance Standards III (120)
    • 3rd Grade (38)
      • SC.3.1.1 Pose a question and develop a hypothesis based on observations (6)
      • SC.3.1.2 Safely collect and analyze data to answer a question (14)
      • SC.3.2.1 Describe ways technologies in fields such as agriculture, information, manufacturing, or communication have influenced society (9)
      • SC.3.3.1 Describe how plants depend on animals (4)
      • SC.3.4.1 Compare distinct structures of living things that help them to survive (18)
      • SC.3.5.1 Describe the relationship between structure and function in organisms (16)
      • SC.3.8.2 Describe how the water cycle is related to weather and climate (7)
    • 4th Grade (51)
      • SC.4.1.1 Describe a testable hypothesis and an experimental procedure (7)
      • SC.4.1.2 Differentiate between an observation and an inference (24)
      • SC.4.2.1 Describe how the use of technology has influenced the economy, demography, and environment of Hawaii (18)
      • SC.4.3.1 Explain how simple food chains and food webs can be traced back to plants (5)
      • SC.4.3.2 Describe how an organism's behavior is determined by its environment (17)
      • SC.4.4.1 Identify the basic differences between plant cells and animal cells (2)
      • SC.4.5.1 Compare fossils and living things (4)
      • SC.4.5.2 Describe the roles of various organisms in the same environment (4)
      • SC.4.5.3 Describe how different organisms need specific environmental conditions to survive (13)
      • SC.4.8.1 Describe how slow processes sometimes shape and reshape the surface of the Earth (12)
      • SC.4.8.2 Describe how fast processes (e.g., volcanoes, earthquakes) sometimes shape and reshape the surface of the Earth (11)
    • 5th Grade (34)
      • SC.5.1.1 Identify the variables in scientific investigations and recognize the importance of controlling variables in scientific experiments (5)
      • SC.5.1.2 Formulate and defend conclusions based on evidence (8)
      • SC.5.2.1 Use models and/or simulations to represent and investigate features of objects, events, and processes in the real world (23)
      • SC.5.3.1 Describe the cycle of energy among producers, consumers, and decomposers (17)
      • SC.5.3.2 Describe the interdependent relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem in terms of the cycles of matter (18)
      • SC.5.6.3 Compare what happens to light when it is reflected, refracted, and absorbed (2)
      • SC.5.8.4 Demonstrate that day and night are caused by the rotation of the Earth on its axis (2)

National Standards

  • National Science Standards (114)
    • 3rd Grade (32)
      • Unifying Concepts & Processes (32)
        • Systems, order, and organization (30)
        • Evidence, models, and explanation (31)
        • Change, constancy, and measurement (30)
        • Evolution and equilibrium (13)
        • Form and function (14)
      • Science As Inquiry (15)
        • Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry (15)
        • Understand about scientific inquiry (2)
      • Life Science (18)
        • Characteristics of organisms (11)
        • Life cycles of organisms (1)
        • Organisms and environments (9)
      • Earth and Space Science (8)
        • Changes in earth and sky (6)
      • Science and Technology (1)
        • Understandings about science and technology (1)
      • Science in Personal and Social Perspective (2)
        • Personal Health (1)
        • Types of resources (1)
    • 4th Grade (51)
      • Unifying Concepts & Processes (49)
        • Systems, order, and organization (48)
        • Evidence, models, and explanation (49)
        • Change, constancy, and measurement (49)
        • Evolution and equilibrium (19)
        • Form and function (14)
      • Science As Inquiry (20)
        • Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry (19)
        • Understand about scientific inquiry (13)
      • Life Science (26)
        • Characteristics of organisms (21)
        • Life cycles of organisms (2)
        • Organisms and environments (15)
      • Earth and Space Science (14)
        • Changes in earth and sky (10)
      • Science and Technology (7)
        • Understandings about science and technology (3)
        • Abilities to distinguish between natural objects and objects made by humans (2)
      • Science in Personal and Social Perspective (1)
    • 5th Grade (33)
      • Unifying Concepts & Processes (33)
        • Systems, order, and organization (33)
        • Evidence, models, and explanation (33)
        • Change, constancy, and measurement (24)
        • Evolution and equilibrium (17)
        • Form and function (19)
      • Science As Inquiry (10)
        • Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry (10)
        • Understand about scientific inquiry (3)
      • Physical Science (12)
        • Transfer of energy (11)
      • Life Science (9)
        • Structure and function in living systems (7)
        • Regulation and behavior (2)
        • Populations and ecosystems (1)
      • Earth and Space Science (8)
        • Structure of the earth system (8)
      • Science in Personal and Social Perspective (1)
        • Personal Health (1)

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  • Interactive Games (11)
  • Careers (10)
  • Lessons (121)
  • Posters (5)
  • Presentations (65)
  • Audio (8)

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