Plantation Themed Lesson Plans

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Students will determine which kō variety will grow best at their schools’ select geographic location.

Time to Completion: 2 Class periods

Age: High School

Created by: Amanda Fancher, Honokaʻa High and Intermediate School

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Kō: An Ethnobotanical Guide to Hawaiian Sugarcane by Noa Lincoln

Students will participate in a 2-3 day activity where they will problem solve and brainstorm to engineer creative solutions to solve how plantations were able to clean sugarcane for processing. 

Time to Completion: 2-3 days

Age: 3/4 Grade

Created by: Hōkūnani Sanchez, Kiva Elementary School (Pheonix, AZ)

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3 bowls, 1 small bucket, kitchen scale, seeds

 In this lesson the students will learn about this origin story, explore the situations that would have lead to this, and think about what their ideal plate lunch would consist of. 

Time to Completion: One 45 min lesson

Age: 4 - 8 Grade

Created by: Kari Lepouttre, Innovations Public Charter School

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A class set of crayons

 By transforming historical newspaper articles into Instagram posts, students will engage with history in a creative and modern way, enhancing their understanding and retention of historical information while developing their summarizing and digital literacy skills.

Time to Completion: 2 class periods (45 minutes each)

Timeline: Two Days, lesson can be adjusted to any time frame as needed

Age: 3-5 Grade

Created by: Kassie Tarpley, Waimea Elementary School

Students will be able to identify and match different varieties of sugar cane (Kō) by name and appearance through a memory game. This activity will enhance their understanding of agricultural diversity and improve their memory and matching skills. 

Time to Completion: Varies depending on students/play time

Age: 2 Grade +

Created by: Kassie Tarpley, Waimea Elementary School

FREE LESSON KIT INCLUDES:

2 sets of custom cards

 Students will watch an excerpt of an interview that covers the day in the life of a kid during the era of the sugar cane plantations. They will fill in a venn-diagram that organizes information as to whether the same information pertains to their childhood experience, or does not. Students will then fill in the remaining portion of their venn diagram based on their own life experience, and then reflect on the similarities and differences presented.

Time to Completion: Two Class Times, Extensions Available for Additional Classes

Age: 4 Grade +

Created by: Liana White, Innovations Public Charter School

 In this lesson students will research average sugar intake in America for an individual, us as a country and more locally on the Big Island. They will answer the questions: How much sugar do we consume daily? Yearly? Collectively on the Big Island? If we were producing this sugar on the island, how much land would be required? By answering these questions in order to quantify our sugar consumption students will develop a practical understanding of sugar and its place in our lives.

Time to Completion: One class period

Age: 1-4 Grade

Created by: Sean Lepouttre, Innovations Public Charter School

Using dice mechanics from table role playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons your students will simulate the unknown and risky decisions that immigrants had to face as they migrated and worked on the Hawaiʻi sugar Plantations. 

Time to Completion: 5, 50 min class periods

Age: Middle or High School

Created by: KaMele Kopplin 

FREE LESSON KIT INCLUDES:

3 sets of dice

Pau Hana, Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii by Ronald Takaki

Using Solitaire as a base, we have designed these cards with planation themes so that as the suit decks are built the photos align loosely with the process of cultivating and creating sugar. 

Time to Completion: Depends how good you are at Solitaire 

Age: 4 Grade+

Created by: KaMele Kopplin 

FREE LESSON KIT INCLUDES:

2 custom Sugarcane Shuffle decks