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11th Grade Human Settlement Inquiry

How Can Humans Address
Their Negative Impact on
the Environment?

Participant photograph taken at the National Geographic C3 Framework BioBlitz that occurred at Kailua High School on May 5, 2016.

Supporting Questions
1. How do humans interact with the environment in the Kailua and Waimanalo
regions/ahupua’a?
2. What is the environmental impact of human settlement activities in the history of Kailua
and Waimanalo?
3. What are the spatial and environmental characteristics of the school’s campus?
4. What are the spatial and environmental characteristics of the Kailua and Waimanalo
ahupua‘a?

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11th Grade Human Settlement Inquiry

How Can Humans Address Their Negative Impact on the Environment?
Hawaii Content andPerformance Standard

HCPS III.MHH. Standard 7: Geography: WORLD IN SPATIAL TERMS-Use geographic representations toorganize, analyze, and present information on people, places, and environments and understand thenature and interaction of geographic regions and societies around the world.

Staging the Question

Students take pictures of their ahupua’a and discuss ways human settlement has had positive andnegative effects.

Supporting Question 1

Supporting Question 2

Supporting Question 3

How do humans interact
with the environment in the
Kailua and Waimanalo
regions/ahupua’a?

What is the environmental
impact of humansettlement activities in thehistory of Kailua andWaimanalo?

What are the spatial andenvironmental
characteristics of theschool’s campus?

Formative
Performance Task

Formative
Performance Task

Formative
Performance Task

Formative
Performance Task

Understand

UnderstandAssessAssessIdentify and describe howhumans interact with theenvironment in students’region/ahupua’a.

Write a paragraph using
evidence that explains
historical environmental
characteristics of Kailua andWaimanalo.

Conduct a mock BioBlitz ofthe school’s campus.

Participate in a BioBlitz in
the Kailua and Waimanalo
ahupua’a.

Featured Sources

Featured Sources

Featured Sources

Featured Sources

Source A: Sites of Oahu

Sources from SQ1

Source B: “Coastal Sand
Dunes Case Study”

Source A: “Waimanalo
Watershed”

Source A: iNaturalist
Website and App

Supporting Question 4
What are the spatial andenvironmental
characteristics of the Kailua
and Waimanalo ahupua‘a?

Sources from SQ3Source C: “Ka Iwi CoastLand Should Be Protected
for Native Plants”
Source D: “A Walk on the
Coast”
Source E: Photographs,“Kailua Memories”

Summative
Performance Task

ARGUMENT How can humans address their negative impact on the environment? Construct an argument in
the form of a proposal (e.g., detailed outline, poster, essay) that discusses the compelling question using
specific claims and relevant evidence from contemporary and historical sources while acknowledging
competing views.
EXTENSION Create a visual representation of the written proposal to share with members of theirclassroom, school, and/or community at large.

Taking Informed
ActionACT Students implement their individual proposals.

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Overview
Inquiry Description
This inquiry leads students through an investigation of human-environment interactions using the ahupua’a ofWaimanalo and Kailua as a case study. By investigating the compelling question, students examine theenvironmental particulars of their region, the ways in which humans have historically interacted with theenvironment, and the current environmental characteristics. This inquiry embeds the Taking Informed Action
sequence, wherein students understand and assess the impact of the human-environmental relationship and act
on their proposals to address the negative impacts of human settlement.
In addition to the Hawaii Content and Performance Standard listed previously, this inquiry highlights thefollowing C3 Framework Conceptual Understandings:• D1.1.9-12. Explain how a question reflects an enduring issue in the field.
• D2.Geo.6.9-12. Evaluate the impact of human settlement activities on the environmental and culturalcharacteristics of specific places and regions.
• D2.Geo.1.9-12. Use geospatial and related technologies to create maps to display and explain the spatial
patterns of cultural and environmental characteristics.
• D3.3.6-8. Identify evidence that draws information from multiple sources to support claims, noting
evidentiary limitations.
• D4.2.9-12. Construct explanations using sound reasoning, correct sequence (linear or non- linear),examples, and details with significant and pertinent information and data, while acknowledging thestrengths and weaknesses of the explanation given its purpose (e.g., cause and effect, chronological,
procedural, technical).
• D4.8.9-12. Apply a range of deliberative and democratic strategies and procedures to make decisions
and take action in their classrooms, schools, and out-of-school civic contexts.
NOTE: This is a three-week inquiry. The inquiry time frame could expand if teachers think their students needadditional instructional experiences (i.e., supporting questions, formative performance tasks, and featured
sources). Inquiries are not scripts, so teachers are encouraged to modify and adapt them to meet the needs andinterests of their particular students and region. Resources can also be modified as necessary tomeet individualized education programs (IEPs) or Section 504 Plans for students with disabilities.

Inquiry Context
This National Geographic BioBlitz inquiry is the result of professional collaboration between the Hawaii State
Department of Education Kailua High School, the University of Hawai‘i College of Education Institute of Teacher
Education, the University of Hawai‘i Uehiro Academy for Philosophy and Ethics in Education, and the University of
Hawai‘i National Geographic Alliance. It was designed for secondary social studies students who enrolled inModern History of Hawaii (MHH) and Ethnic Studies (ES) courses at Kailua High School.
In the spring semester of 2016 seven Kailua High School teachers, including University of Hawai‘i College of
Education Secondary Social Studies teacher candidates planned and carried out this National Geographic BioBlitz
inquiry with approximately two hundred and fifty MHH and ES students. In this inquiry, students are introduced
to a compelling question, develop questions and plan their inquiry, apply disciplinary concepts and tools related
to the field of geography, evaluate sources (both primary texts and data from a BioBlitz), use evidence,
communicate their conclusions, and take informed action.

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The BioBlitz portion of the project occurred on May 5, 2016 between 8:00am and 1:00pm. On this date, Kailua
High School teachers in three different cluster groups worked alongside additional experts (e.g., biologists,botanists, and cultural experts) to support students as they gathered data in a five different geographic regions(Ka Iwi Coast, UH CTHAR Waimanalo Research Station, Ulupo Heiau, Na Pohaku and Kahana Iki) located in the
Kailua and Waimanalo ahupua’a.

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Staging the Compelling Question
Compelling Question

How can humans reverse their negative impact on the environment?

Staging Task

Students take pictures of their ahupua’a and discuss ways human settlement has had positive
and negative effects.

THE COMPELLING QUESTION “How can humans address their negative impact on the environment?” asks students
to understand and assess the relationship between human settlement and the environment, while finding
solutions to address the repercussions. To prepare students for this inquiry, teachers provide students with an
overview of the project, including an introduction to the compelling question, as well as the definitions of key
terms used throughout the inquiry. For example, the class should work to define “geographic region” inrelationship to the Hawaiian concept of “ahupua'a.” Ahupuaʻa is the Hawaiian term for a large traditionalsocioeconomic, geologic, and climatic subdivision of land. Students are introduced to their ahupua‘a by locating
their home and school on the Sites of Oahu ahupua‘a map. (See Supporting Question 1 sources)
To hook students into the compelling question, they are asked to take and present photographs to their class todisplay the geographic region in which they live. Their photographs should depict the interaction between
humans and the environment in their particular ahupua‘a. Ideally, they should illustrate how the region haschanged since the account of the region documented in Sites of Oahu. They present their photographs to the classand discuss them with their peers. Teachers facilitate the sharing of these photographs by using terminology fromthe discourse of geography (e.g., nature, interaction, and impact of the society/population on their physicalenvironment).

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Supporting Question 1
Supporting
Question

How do humans interact with the environment in the Kailua and Waimanalo
regions/ahupua’a?

Formative Performance
Task

Identify and describe how humans interact with the environment in students’ ahupua’a.

Featured Sources

Source A: Sites of Oahu
Source B: “Coastal Sand Dunes Case Study”
Source C: “Ka Iwi Coast Land Should Be Protected for Native Plants”
Source D: “A Walk on the Coast”
Source E: Photographs, “Kailua Memories”

Supporting Question
The first supporting question—“How do humans interact with the environment in the Kailua and Waimanalo
regions/ahupua’a?”— supports students and teachers as they unwrap the factors impacting their region. They doso by defining the term “geographic region” in relationship to the Hawaiian concept of “ahupua’a.”

Formative Performance Task
The formative performance task calls on students to identify and describe how humans interact with theenvironment in their ahupua’a. Teachers help the students describe the impacts that societies/populations have
had on the physical environment in the Kailua and Waimanalo ahupua‘a by using before/after images. Teacherspresent a number of case studies (from both the students’ local region and outside the region) that illustratehistorical and contemporary examples of the negative and positive impacts that societies/populations have hadon their physical environment globally (e.g., Coastal Sand Dunes Case Study) and locally (e.g., Ka Iwi Coast
Preservation).
Featured Source A is an ahupua’a map from Sites of Oahu. Sites of Oahu contains descriptions and maps of thegeographic regions of Kailua and Waimanalo. It also contains a compilation of primary source documents that
describe how the geographic regions were historically used and the cultural significance of each region. Students
should locate their ahupua’a and their home and school on this map. In Featured Source B, a “Coastal Sand Dunes
Case Study,” the impact of human settlement on the Stockton Bight Sand Dunes in Australia provides students aframework to consider the many ways humans and the environment interact. Featured Source C, an article fromthe Honolulu Star-Advertiser, presents the detrimental impact to plant life posed by development in Hawaii.
Featured Source D,“A Walk on the Coast,” is an article from the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, which describes some of
the impacts of development on the landscape. Featured Source E, a collection of photographs of Kailua, presents
both historical and present day photographs of the Kailua ahupua‘a, illustrating human interactions with theenvironment.

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Supporting Question 1
Featured Source

Source A: Elspeth P. Sterling & Catherine C. Summers, book, Sites of Oahu, 1997, p. 227-259.

See page 257 for Oahu ahupua’a map.
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Supporting Question 1
Featured Source

Source B: Steven Newman, webpage, “Coastal Sand Dunes Case Study,” Ecosystems at Risk:
Case Study, 2016.

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Supporting Question 1
Featured Source

Source C: Heidi Bornhorst, article, “Ka Iwi Coast Land Should Be Protected for Native Plants,”
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser, September 21, 2015.

The community is coming together to preserve the beautiful Ka Iwi mauka lands, 182 acres between the golfcourse and Makapuu.
We must band together to keep open this wild eastern end of Oahu and protect it from the poor planning andoverdevelopment that has plagued the rest of the island.
Wild, open, undeveloped land is something we all need, where nature and open views to the ocean are visible
and accessible.
For more than 40 years, the community has battled to keep this area free of development. Every time wethought that we had “won,” some new money would come in and people would try to develop the aina for prot.
Now nally we have a victory. The Trust for Public Land and the Livable Hawaii Kai Hui will jointly manage thelands and will help sew up all the details of caring for and managing the aina here.
When we were rst learning about native Hawaiian plants, this was a great introduction. One of my favorites,
which used to grow in the area in abundance, is mao, or Hawaiian cotton, Gossypium tomentosum.
We used to see the silvery leaved shrubs, with cheerful yellow owers, driving by. If you got out and hiked, you
could see them up close and admire the gorgeous, almost fakely perfect when freshly opened, owers.
Some of us from Honolulu Botanical Gardens would then collect the fuzzy, copper- colored seeds so we could
grow plants and perpetuate the mao.

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Supporting Question 1
Featured Source

Source D: Greg Ambrose, article, “ A Walk on the Coast: A Hike along the Kaiwi Coast Displays
the Spectacular Natural Beauty of an Area that's Perched on the Edge of Development,” The
Honolulu Star Bulletin, October 14, 1996.

THE sunrise gently peels away the cover of darkness, revealing a breathtaking vista of the lower Windward sidefrom the cliffs above Makapuu Beach. With a little exertion you have a commanding view from Rabbit Island all
the way to the Mokapu peninsula, including the sharp peak of Mount Olomana and the sheer, emerald cliffs ofthe Koolaus stretching to Kahaluu. There is little evidence of human habitation. As the sunrise glows on thebeaches of Waimanalo, with a little imagination you can convince yourself you're on a French Polynesian or
Micronesian paradise, and not on the most densely populated island in the eastern Pacific. Climbing higher, theview becomes impossibly stunning, as you pause to contemplate the scene, a thought comes to mind that you
too seldom have occasion to think these days: Lucky you live Hawaii. The rocks provide a chronology of thehistory of this area. You can almost see the molten lava flowing into the ocean and hear it explode as it hits thecool ocean. There is little to mark the passage of the ancient Hawaiians, who traveled lightly and made little
lasting impression upon the land. 'Gated' lookout points allow a grand view from above the Makapuu lighthouse.
The stone image the supernatural woman Makapuu and another stone image of Malei vanished years ago, butthere are still remnants of heiau, fishing shrines and canoe shelters in Kealakipapa Valley on the other side of
the Makapuu cliffs. Cliffside concrete bunkers bring to the imagination nervous GIs, author James Jones and his
fellow soldiers anxiously scanning the horizon for the Japanese invasion fleet that they were sure would sail
into sight any day and finish what they started at Pearl Harbor. Past the summit, there are foundations ofbuildings that housed Coast Guard members who tended the Makapuu Lighthouse, buildings later occupied by
Bumpy Kanahele and his followers until police surprised them before dawn and carted them off to jail.
Finally, firmly entrenched on the edge of the cliff are new steel railings and concrete platforms, protecting theunwary as they admire the view. Seabirds ride the air currents effortlessly they commute to a long day of fishing
while along nearby Kalanianaole Highway a steady stream of cars carries workers toward town. At the highest
part of the cliff, the illusion of solitude - already tarnished by the highway - is further eroded as the elevation
displays the hundreds of houses crawling up Kamehame Ridge. The cluster extends all the way to the distantBlack Point at the foot of Diamond Head. Daniel Kim regularly makes the climb to the lookout before dawn withhis wife and dogs to greet the sunrise and meditate. The Kahala dive instructor was dismayed to learn of plans
to fill the valley and ridges with houses, a hotel and a golf course. "They would take away the last special placein the area." The descent from the cliffs leads into Kealakipapa Valley with it's austere simplicity usually foundin deserts. But the little movements, little tracks, the drift of the clouds and the blowing of the wind catch theattention. It's a rugged environment where hardy succulents cling to the rocky soil and shrug off the relentless
salt spray. Beach naupaka provides a dash of color with their green leaves and white berries. Kiawe and haolekoa trees add more greenery in the sun-seared landscape, and the sight of the plants and animals struggling tolive in the harsh environment gives a new appreciation for the tenacity of life.
It wasn't always this way. Kealakipapa Valley was once the site of an ancient Hawaiian village called Wawamalu,
which means shady valley. It was famous for growing yams and sweet potatoes to provision whaling ships.
Corporate official Alan Sanford Davis, a head trustee of Campbell Estate, built a beautiful home and in the valley
and called it Wawamalu Ranch. But on April 1, 1946 a tsunami raged through the valley and waves ripped away
the ranch and scattered pieces as far away as Hanauma Bay and Kalama Valley. The tsunami also left boulders in
the valley and coated it with salt, leaving it barren. But there are also unique native and endangered species
here, archaeological sites of cultural significance, including the old king's highway, and sites known to Hawaiian
legend.

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The walk along the rutted dirt road toward Queen's Beach belie evidence of humanity. Corpses of cars riddledwith bullets quietly bleed rust. An incredible amount of rubbish is tossed about: shoes, clothes, huge nylon
fishing nets and gear, glasses and cups, nylon nets, a whole oven and the hand cart that was used to carry it.
At times on the weekend, the solitude is shattered by off-road vehicles and dirt bikes roaring around, tearing up
plants and digging ruts, sneaking by the barriers the landlord has erected. The giant pohaku (stone), high on thecliff that guards the beginning of Makapuu Point, has been tagged by teen-agers to immortalize their fleetingromances or proclaim 'Yes, I am somebody!' At the end of the long dirt road is a little bay, a sheltered covewhere the sand has more bird tracks than human footprints. Once again traffic noisy is buffered by the roar ofwaves as they smash ashore, covering the black lava rocks briefly in white. Here, the tension of city life
evaporates, and lines of worry ease from the face. You can breathe deeply and pause to ponder the world
around you, to enjoy a sublime sense of solitude, see things you've never noticed before. Salt from a tsunami's
waters years ago has made this portion barren although there is some greenery. You are away from the hustlingand bustling of humanity crammed cheek to jowl and bumper to bumper on this little island. There aren't many
places near Honolulu where you can breathe freely, temporarily free from being crammed into prisons of ourown creation. Nearby, mangrove trees line the shore of the estuary that separates the two sides Queen's Beach.
As you walk through, you have the feeling that at any moment an alligator might lunge out of the shallows. At
the old Wawamalu Bridge, look one way and you see the magnificent sweep of the cliffs at Makapuu, look theother and you see the artificially landscaped and watered golf course and golfers happily putting away. Lookagain and there is the bulwark of the backside of Koko Crater; turn your head the other way and the ocean
awaits. Finally, at Wawamalu Beach the lava rocks give way to white sand and invitingly blue water, with tidepools in the rocks teeming with sea life for children to discover and waves that can snatch the unwary right off
the rocks. A miniature blowhole erupts and spews sea spray into the air with each wave, an attraction most
tourists and residents never see. Cindy and Lisa Ichioka are among the few who do. When they returned to visit
Hawaii from their new home in Florida they head straight for Wawamalu Beach. In small-kid times, their father
use to bring them them to Wawamalu to play.
They return to Wawamalu because it's the only place on Oahu that hasn't changed over the years. So the young
sisters are horrified to learn that change threatens the valley and ridges with a proposed golf course, homes,
hotel and industrial complex. "We don't need any more golf courses," Cindy says indignantly. "There are so few
untouched places. There is no traffic, no tourists, no tall highrises." "This is why we came here," her sister adds
quietly. Wawamalu Beach has long been a favorite fishing spot for Richard Tamaoka, above, and his brother Kelly.
"Too much city, not enough Hawaii," said Kelly, when told of the proposed development. "There is no place else togo" said Richard. "This is the last frontier." Kelly and Richard Tamaoka drive out to Wawamalu Beach from theAla Moana area often. The two elderly but spry brothers cast lines into the surf, catching reef fish and putting
them in tide pools to keep them alive. It has been their favorite spot for decades. They, too, are aghast when toldof the proposed development for the area. "That will be the end for us," says Richard. "There is no place else togo. "Too much city, not enough Hawaii," says Kelly. Says Richard, "This is the last frontier."

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Supporting Question 1
Featured Source

Source E: Dennis Hollier, photographs, “Kailua Memories,” Honolulu Magazine, 1997.

Sample Image: The Kailua Theater

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Supporting Question 2
Supporting
Question

What is the environmental impact of human settlement activities in the history of Kailua andWaimanalo?

Formative Performance
Task

Write a paragraph using evidence that explains historical environmental characteristics of Kailua
and Waimanalo.

Featured Sources

Sources from SQ1
Source A: “Waimanalo Watershed”

Supporting Question
For the second supporting question—“What is the environmental impact of human settlement activities in thehistory of Kailua and Waimanalo?”—students build on their exploration of interaction with the environment intheir ahupua’a to consider the environmental impact of historical factors. The purpose of this supporting question
is to help students as they generate questions, evaluate sources, and use evidence to determine thehistorical/environmental characteristics of their region so that they have an evidence-based starting point forthinking about the impact of human settlement activities on the Kailua and Waimanalo ahupua'a over time.

Formative Performance Task
Based on the pictures that the students took of their geographic region/ahupua'a and data from the case studies
provided in the previous supporting question, students use the Good Thinker’s Tool Kit to generate five questions
that they want to guide their learning. Next, the students use the Sites of Oahu text to help answer their questions.
Depending on their particular questions, they might also have to find additional sources to supplement this part ofthe inquiry. Based on the sources and the answers to their questions, students write a paragraph using evidence
that explains the historical environmental characteristics of the region they live in: Kailua or Waimanalo.
In addition to the previous sources from the first performance task describing the history of these geographic
regions, students read Featured Source A, Waimanalo Watershed-Portable Water to stimulate thinking anddiscussion about the possible negative impacts that human settlement has had on the region. Doing so leads
students and teachers into a Plain Vanilla Deliberative Inquiry related to the negative and positive interactions
between societies/populations and their physical environment.

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Supporting Question 2
Featured Source

Source A: “Waimanalo watershed: Potable-water,” web article, modified from Marine Corps
Base Hawaii, Kaneohe. Mokapu: Manual for Watershed Health and Water Quality, Section 3.5,
1998.

Unlike the watersheds of Kâne'ohe and Kailua, the Waimânalo watershed has retained much of its rural character.
Waimânalo's water resources were historically diverted from areas in Kailua (e.g., upper Maunawili Valley) for
agriculture. Prehistoric burial sites and ancient Hawaiian villages have been recorded near the shoreline, which,along the central portion of Waimânalo Bay, consists of beach sand backed by a series of dunes that are among themost extensive on O'ahu. The reef platform off Waimânalo is well developed although somewhat submerged.
Wailea Point (also known as Popo`oka`ala) is a volcanic headland marking the western end of Waimanalo Bay.
Seawalls line the shoreline around the Point, and their presence has probably contributed to loss of sand in several
shoreline sections nearby (Clark, 1977). (1)One of the most visible features along Waimânalo Bay is Waimânalo Beach, which, with an overall length of nearly
5.5 mi (8.8 km), is the longest stretch of sandy shoreline on O`ahu. Waimânalo Beach is a popular sun- bathing andswimming area, especially where its sandy bottom slopes gently offshore. Lithified dunes occur on the alluvial
plain behind the beach. Located just north of Waimânalo Beach, Bellows Air Force Station, with its several ditches,
streams, and wetland areas, provides habitat for endangered waterbird species. Shoreline access permits moderate
to heavy fishing for ulua, pâpio, weke, and 'ô'io along the length of Waimânalo Bay.
Waimanalo Valley, long a sugar plantation and now [1972] a ranch, had less wet taro in olden days, being
blessed with only one stream. Yet much of what was until recent years sugar-cane land had previously beenplanted in taro. There were evidences in 1935 of old lo`i much further inland, in a semicircle at the back of
the broad valley. Akama`aina of the place at that time named nine such lo`i sections whose water camefrom springs.
Levi Chamberlain is quoted (Sterling and Summers, 1962, BK 5, Vol. 2, p. 344) as reporting in 1828 thelocation of a small and quite poor fishing village near the beach,toward Makapu`u Point from the present Waimanalo town, just beyond which there was a pool named Kawai-kupanaha where these people got their fresh water. This has since been covered by the roadway. It is
probably adjacent to this site that the remains of a fishing shrine (ko`a) are visible on a point of land justoffshore, surrounded by water at high tide (McAllister, 1933, p. 195).
Beyond the old plantation town of Waimanalo and toward Makapu`u Point is a narrow stretch of land lying
between the dry windward face of this southeast end of the Ko`olau range and the sea, the name of which
was Ko`o-o-na-pou (mistakingly called Kaupo in recent times). This was a sweetpotato planting area. A
village was established here bya kahuna who had a peculiar grass house with two rooms: the front room into which visitors came; and his
private room behind this, which abutted on a low cave with a rather thin roof of lava shaped like a flat
dome. In this little cave the kahuna kept his paraphernalia. The site was exposed to heavy winds, so thehouse frame was braced by heavy props (ko`o) that held the posts (na pou) secure against the winds of thesea. The village and the land took their descriptive names from this house.

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The scattered rocks where the house had been and the little lava dome were carried off during World War
II, and likewise the stones of a fisherman's heiau on the rocky foreshore where the beach begins, named Kaala-pueo..........
Ka-ala-pueo (Rallying-of-the-owls) was the last settlement near Makapu`u Point, and consisted of only a
few fishermen's huts.
Offshore lies Manana, the true name of the little gray volcanic island shaped somewhat like a crouching orrecumbent animal and now popularly called "Rabbit Island." It has very little vegetation, and yet is the home ofnumerous wild rabbits [in 1972]. Just off its shore is a rock named Ka-ipu (The-cup) because of a depression in its
top surface which held water coming from the waves breaking over it. On this rock there was another fishing
shrine. (2)Waimânalo in Hawaiian means "potable, or sweet water." Seasonal discharges from Puhâ Stream, which drains a
primarily agricultural area, contribute to poor water quality along the shore. Net fishing for crabs, throw-netting,and bait-collecting occur where this stream enters the bay. The bay is influenced to a larger extent by Waimânalo
Stream, which flows perennially, although there are several diversions in the upstream valley. The channelized
mouth of this stream is estuarine.
(1) AECOS, Inc. 1979. Hawai`i Coral Reef Inventory. Island of O`ahu (OCRI). Part B - Sectional Map Descriptions. U.S.
Army Engineer District, Honolulu. p. 36(2) E. S. C. Handy, E. G. Handy, and Mary Pukui. 1972. Native Planters in Old Hawaii. Their Life, Lore, andEnvironment, Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 233: p. 457-459

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Supporting Question 3
Supporting
Question

What are the spatial and environmental characteristics of the school’s campus?

Formative Performance
Task

Conduct a mock BioBlitz of the school’s campus.

Featured Source(s)Source A: iNaturalist website and app

Supporting Question
For the third supporting question—“What are the spatial and environmental characteristics of the school’s
campus?”—students take their understandings of the human-environmental relationship of their ahupua’a andconnect them to the contemporary characteristics of their school’s campus.

Formative Performance Task
To address this question, the performance task guides students through the process of learning how to use theiNaturalist app and website to display and explain current spatial patterns and the contemporary environmental
characteristics of the Kailua and Waimanalo ahupua’a.
This performance task helps prepare students for the official BioBlitz that they conduct off campus during thisinquiry by having them practice on their high school campus. The first featured source for this task is theiNaturalist app and website, which allows students to catalogue and share observations of flora and fauna. It also
explains procedures for the cataloguing of data during BioBlitz events.

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Supporting Question 3
Featured Source

Source A: BioBlitz Guide, webpage, iNaturalist, 2016

Excerpt
What is a BioBlitz?
A Bioblitz is a communal citizen-science effort to record as many species within a designated location and time
period as possible.Bioblitzes are great ways to engage the public to connect to their environment while generating
useful data for science and conservation. They are also an excuse for naturalists, scientists, and curious members of
the public to meet in person in the great outdoors and are alot of fun!
Why Should I Use iNaturalist for my Bioblitz?
Encourage Public Participation
Public participation is what separates Bioblitzes from traditional biological inventories. iNaturalist makes it easy
for anyone to genuinely participate in your Bioblitz by recording observations.
Create high quality data
Who says Bioblitzes are just about outreach? Because iNaturalist observations are independently identified andverified as research-quality data, your Bioblitz, no matter how small, will contribute directly to science.
Make tallying your species count easy
iNaturalist will automatically tally a species count for your Bioblitz and provides many tools for visualizing andcommunicating Bioblitz results to participants and onlookers.

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Supporting Question 4
Supporting
Question

What are the spatial and environmental characteristics of the Kailua and Waimanalo ahupua‘a?

Formative Performance
Task

Participate in a BioBlitz in their ahupua’a.

Featured Source(s)Sources from SQ3Supporting Question
The fourth supporting question—“What are the spatial and environmental characteristics of the Kailua andWaimanalo ahupua‘a?”—students expand their assessment of the human-environment interaction to include theirlarger ahupua’a.

Formative Performance Task
The resources from the previous supporting task assist students as they catalogue and share observations of floraand fauna in the BioBlitz event at one of five sites in the Waimanalo and Kailua regions.

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Summative Performance Task
ARGUMENT How can humans address their negative impact on the environment? Construct
Summative PerformanceTask

an argument in the form of a proposal that addresses the compelling question, using specificclaims and relevant evidence from historical and contemporary sources, while acknowledging
competing views.

EXTENSION Students create a visual representation of their written proposal that will beshared with members of their classroom, school, and/or community at large.
Taking Informed Action

ACT Students will implement their individual proposals.

At this point in the inquiry, students have examined the geographic and historical particulars of their region, withconsideration as to how human settlement has impacted the environment over time. Their work included
assessing the current conditions of their region at a school and community level. Now, they compare their
historical understanding of the region with the contemporary data that they gathered during the BioBlitz and draw
conclusions about how they might address the negative impact of humans in their geographic region.
Students should be expected to demonstrate the breadth of their understandings and their abilities to use evidence
from multiple sources to support their claims. In the form of a proposal with a plan for action, students construct
an evidence-based argument using multiple sources to answer the compelling question “How can humans address
their negative impact on the environment?”
Students’ arguments will likely vary, but could include any of the following:•••

Based on the decreasing amounts of native plants found in Kailua over the past 100 years, I plan to plantnative plants on the Kailua High School campus.
Given the increasing amounts of invasive species in the Waimanalo watershed over the past 100 years, I
plan to participate in a local stream clean up to remove invasive species from the stream.
Now that I have evidence of the negative impact that housing development has had on important Hawaiian
cultural sites, I plan to write a letter to the editor about the significance of particular Hawaiian cultural sites
in my ahupua’a and what we can do as a community to preserve them.

To extend their arguments, students can create a visual representation of their written proposal to be shared withmembers of their classroom, school, and/or community at large. This visual representation can be a PowerPoint orPrezi presentation. It could also be a short video or poster. The students should think about their intended
audience when constructing the visual representation of their proposal.
Students have the opportunity to Take Informed Action by using the information from the inquiry to create a
proposal that would address negative ways in which human settlement has impacted the local environment.
Students demonstrate that they understand how humans have interacted with the local environment through theirwork on Supporting Questions 1 and 2, while they assess its impact in Supporting Questions 3 and 4. Students act
by each creating and implementing a proposal that would address the negative impact. This task can be done inaddition to, or as a substitute for, the Summative Performance Task.

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