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Kahua Aʻo: A Learning Foundation: Using Hawaiian Language Newspaper Articles for Place and Culture-based Geoscience Teacher Education and Curriculum Development

Kahua Aʻo, a collaboration involving the College of Education, School of Hawaiian Knowledge, SOEST, and Windward Community College utilizes Hawaiian language newspaper articles written in the 19th and early 20th centuries as a foundation for geoscience education. Articles describe familiar winds, rains, and landscapes as well as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunami, drought, and storms. As over 90% of 1.5 million pages of text are still in Hawaiian, the project provides historical resources for science educators and scientists and conveys the science underlying Hawaiian stories and cultural practices. Earth science modules disseminated through science education classes, workshops and project websites bring Native Hawaiian voices and viewpoints into geoscience education. Kahua Aʻo is funded under an NSF OEDG award, Pauline Chinn, P.I., Steven Businger, Floyd McCoy, M. Puakea Nogelmeier, and Scott Rowland, co-P.I.s.

Lessons

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Island Wind Maps
Lesson 1 - Hadley Cell and the Trade Winds of Hawaiʻi
Lesson 2 - Local Winds and Rain in Hawaiʻi
Lesson 3 - Weather Maps and Hazardous Storms in Hawaiʻi
Lesson 4 - Atmospheric Polution and Golbal Warming
Lesson 5 - El Nino and La Nina in Hawaiʻi
Lesson 1 - Hadley Cell and the Trade Winds of Hawaiʻi
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Lesson 2 - Local Winds and Rain in Hawaiʻi
Local Weather Conditions Around the State

Hawaiian Island Wind Maps:
Hawaiʻi Island Lanaʻi Kauaʻi Maui Molokaʻi Niʻihau Oʻahu
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Lesson 3 - Weather Maps and Hazardous Storms in Hawaiʻi
Cyclone Center Webpage
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Lesson 4 - Atmospheric Polution and Golbal Warming
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Lesson 5 - El Nino and La Nina in Hawaiʻi
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To contact us:

Department of Meteorology

School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST)

University of Hawaii at Manoa (UH)


2525 Correa Rd
Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822


Tel: (808) 956-2569
Fax:(808) 956-2877


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This page last updated January 2014 by Tom Robinson

		  
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