While researching the plants, students will list all of the plants in their gardens. They will classify the plants as indigenous, endemic, Polynesian introduced, or European introduced. They will make observations about the uses of the native plants in their community today. This is added to the web. This information is compiled into a class database to be shared with all.
Students create a matrix about the plants to be displayed.
This matrix includes all of the data collected in the database written out in paragraphs and pictures illustrating the data. Groups will share their findings with the class. The students will discuss the significance of these plants to Hawai'i and how they can help preserve them. Learn songs and chants of different ahupua'a, including the ahupua'a where they live. Study the symmetry of Hawaiian quilt patterns to create own native plant patterns then make tiles of the quilt patterns or create a class quilt.