Books in Hawaii Experience series

I’m Reading About Hawaii is a 48-page colorful book that helps students learn what makes Hawaii unique. I’m Reading about Hawaii helps early readers learn fun and interesting facts about Hawaii. The colorful illustrations, bold, vibrant art, kid-friendly text and photographs help bring the state to life. I’m Reading About Hawaii topics include:Native HawaiiansExplorersHistoryStatehoodFlagCapitalSealNicknameGeography PresidentPeopleBirdFlowerTreeInsectBeachesMountainsRain ForestsLandmarkAgricultureSportsClaim to FameGlossaryAnd More!

This unique book combines state-specific facts and 30 fun-to-do hands-on projects. The History Project Book includes creating a cartoon panel to describe how your state name may have come about, creating a fort replica, making a state history museum, dressing up as a famous explorer and recreating the main discovery, and more! Kids will have a blast and build essential knowledge skills including research, reading, writing, science and math. Great for students in K-8 grades and for displaying in the classroom, library or home.

The Hawaii Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! is one of our NEW products for 2017! A true-time saver, the Hawaii Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! includes ready-to-use pages and instructions that make state-studies fun and successful for the whole class.The Hawaii Interactive Notebook is more than just a notebook for taking notes it's a way of collecting and thinking about information. The Hawaii Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! helps students become creative, independent, and reflective thinkers, readers, and writers. Students learn to express their own ideas and apply skills learned in class. The Hawaii Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! gives teachers ready-to-use pages, templates, instructions, writing prompts, and more, making it easy to start using their interactive notebooks today!WHY USE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS?Interactive Notebooks are great for students!- Building an Interactive Notebook helps students build organization skills as they take responsibility for their learning resources. - The Interactive Notebook provides students with an outlet to apply the knowledge they gain in ways that express their own ideas and creativity. - Guided writing activities incorporated into an Interactive Notebook help your students develop into independent, creative, reflective thinkers. - And, once completed, an Interactive Notebook becomes a comprehensive and engaging review tool to help your students master content and prepare for tests. Interactive Notebooks are great for teachers!- You can easily customize your instruction. - You direct the learning process and pace. - You determine where to dig deeper...and when and where to add pizzazz! - You choose which projects to use as instruction, which projects to use as reinforcement, which projects to use as independent practice, and which projects to use as assessments. - You can supplement activities with your own texts and projects. - And, you meet the unique needs of your students in each and every year!A true time-saver! - Step-by-step teacher instructions- Ready-to-use, reproducible pages- Writing and reflection prompts- Student letter- Supply lists- Rubric- And more!This book is reproducible and has 68 pages.

Exploring Hawaii through Project-Based Leaning includes 50 well-thought-out projects designed for grades 3-5. In assigning your students projects that dig into Hawaii’s geography, history, government, economy, current events, and famous people, you will deepen their appreciation and understanding of Hawaii while simultaneously improving their analytical skills and ability to recognize patterns and big-picture themes. Project-based learning today is much different than the craft-heavy classroom activities popular in the past. Inquiry, planning, research, collaboration, and analysis are key components of project-based learning activities today. However, that doesn’t mean creativity, individual expression, and fun are out. They definitely aren’t!Each project is designed to help students gain important knowledge and skills that are derived from standards and key concepts at the heart of academic subject areas. Students are asked to analyze and solve problems, to gather and interpret data, to develop and evaluate solutions, to support their answers with evidence, to think critically in a sustained way, and to use their newfound knowledge to formulate new questions worthy of exploring.While some projects are more complex and take longer than others, they all are set up in the same structure. Each begins with the central project-driving questions, proceeds through research and supportive questions, has the student choose a presentation option, and ends with a broader-view inquiry. Rubrics for reflection and assessments are included, too. This consistent framework will make it easier for you assign projects and for your students to follow along and consistently meet expectations.Encourage your students to take charge of their projects as much as possible. As a teacher, you can act as a facilitator and guide. The projects are structured such that students can often work through the process on their own or through cooperation with their classmates.The 12 Famous People in the Hawaii Photo Pack include: • CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, British Explorer and Captain in the Royal Navy• KING KAMEHAMEHA I, Established the Kingdom of Hawaii• JOHN L. STEVENS, U.S. Minister to the Kingdom of Hawaii• KING DAVID KALAKAUA, King Known as the “Merrie Monarch” • QUEEN LILIUOKALANI, Last Monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii• FATHER DAMIEN, Roman Catholic Priest and Missionary• SANFORD B. DOLE, First Governor of the Territory of Hawaii• ROBERT WILCOX, Revolutionary Soldier and Politician• LORRIN A. THURSTON, Lawyer, Politician, and Businessman• JAMES DOLE, Developed the Pineapple Industry in Hawaii• DANIEL INOUYE, U.S. Senator and WWII Medal of Honor Winner• ELISON ONIZUKA, NASA Astronaut

The Big Hawaii Activity Book! 100+ activities, from Kindergarten-easy to Fourth/Fifth-challenging! This big activity book has a wide range of reproducible activities including coloring, dot-to-dot, mazes, matching, word search, and many other creative activities that will entice any student to learn more about Hawaii. Activities touch on history, geography, people, places, fictional characters, animals, holidays, festivals, legends, lore, and more.

The Hawaii Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Hawaii. We have created a FREE Online Teacher’s Guide for Primary Sources to help you to teach primary sources more effectively and use creative strategies for integrating primary source materials into your classroom. This FREE Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources is 15 pages. It includes teacher tools, student handouts, and student worksheets. Click to download the FREE Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources.The Hawaii Primary Sources will help your students build common core skills including: • Analysis• Critical Thinking• Point of View• Compare and Contrast• Order of Events• And Much More! Perfect for gallery walks and literature circles! Great research and reference materials! The 20 Hawaii Primary Sources are: • Portrait of Captain James Cook by Nathaniel Dance Holland – 1775• Painting of King Kalaniopuu greeting Captain Cook in 1781 – painted by John Webber, artist aboard Cook’s ship – 1783• Portrait of King Kamehameha I– circa 1820• Engraving of Christian missionary to Hawaii preaching in a kukui grove – 1841• Painting entitled View of the Honolulu Fort by Paul Emmert – 1853• Lithograph showing view of Honolulu from the harbor – 1854• Photograph of Provisional Government Cabinet including Sanford Dole (behind desk) – 1893• Photograph of Chinese immigrant family in Honolulu – 1893• Advertisement by Castle & Cooke Importers for a new knife to cut sugar cane – 1897• Photograph showing American flag being raised during annexation ceremony at Iolani Palace – 1898• Photograph of Japanese immigrant store in Honolulu – circa 1900• Copy of resolution of the Territory of Hawaii petitioning Congress to admit Hawaii as a state – 1903• Map of Hawaii – 1912• Photograph of workers loading sugar cane on carts in Hawaii – 1917• Photograph of Queen Liliuokalani – circa 1900• Copy of U.S. Navy dispatch announcing the attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor – Dec. 7, 1941• Copy of WWII war poster regarding the attack on Pearl Harbor – 1941• Photograph of King David Kalakaua – last reigning king of the Kingdom of Hawai’i - circa 1874• Political cartoon showing Uncle Sam in a classroom lecturing four students labeled as Philippines, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Cuba – 1899• Population density map of Hawaii – 2010Your students will: • think critically and analytically, interpret events, and question various perspectives of history. • participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations instead of memorizing facts and a writer’s interpretations. • integrate and evaluate information provided in diverse media formats to deepen their understanding of historical events. • experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience. Each primary resource is printed on sturdy 8.5" X 11" cardstock.

Modeled after the popular TV game show; features categories like state History, Geography, Exploration, People, Statehood, State Attractions, and lots more. Each category lists educational and entertaining answers--the student gives the correct question. Includes approximately 30 categories and 150 answers and questions. Kids love the Jeopardy-style format! This reproducible book features categories of your state to build quick-thinking skills. The categories includes missions, animals, landmarks, flag facts, ancestors, politics, settlers, statehood, trivia, first, potpourri and more.

Each desk-sized “FunSheet” includes original illustrations are designed to be colored with markers, colored pencils, or crayons. The “FunSheet” includes YOUR state name, statehood information, state flag, state seal, and lots of state symbols and facts for kids to read, color, and learn, PLUS a state symbols word search and maze. The oversized 11” x 17” “FunSheet” gives kids lots of room to show their creativity and include lots of educational value! You can even laminate the fun sheets to use throughout the year as desk-sheets, placemats, wall displays, and more! These attractive coloring and activity sheets make it fun to learn about YOUR state’s symbols and other important facts. Each pack comes with 30 sheets. Put the “FunSheet” in the hands of every student.

I’m Reading About Hawaii is a 48-page colorful book that helps students learn what makes Hawaii unique. I’m Reading about Hawaii helps early readers learn fun and interesting facts about Hawaii. The colorful illustrations, bold, vibrant art, kid-friendly text and photographs help bring the state to life. I’m Reading About Hawaii topics include:Native HawaiiansExplorersHistoryStatehoodFlagCapitalSealNicknameGeography PresidentPeopleBirdFlowerTreeInsectBeachesMountainsRain ForestsLandmarkAgricultureSportsClaim to FameGlossaryAnd More!

One of the most popular misconceptions about American Indians is that they are all the same-one homogenous group of people who look alike, speak the same language, and share the same customs and history. Nothing could be further from the truth! This book gives kids an A-Z look at the Native Americans that shaped their state's history. From tribe to tribe, there are large differences in clothing, housing, life-styles, and cultural practices. Help kids explore Native American history by starting with the Native Americans that might have been in their very own backyard! Some of the activities include crossword puzzles, fill in the blanks, and decipher the code.