Innovation for a Clean, Green, Beautiful Hawai’i – Computationally Competent, Active Citizenry for a Competitive 21st Century Workforce -‐-‐ Environmental Education Engineering Cindie Ogata, EarthWorks
THANK YOU Ki Concepts LLC and Smart Trees Pacific, HEEA, and HIGICC, City and County of Honolulu Department of Urban Forestry (DUF), The Outdoor Circle (TOC), and State of Hawai`I Department of Health, and DNLR for collaborating on this project.
The following is directly inline with The President’s current policies in education, climate change, nutrition, and health, as well as National Science Foundation Goals, Agriculture Goals, and Climate Change Initiatives as well as i3 innovative grant program potential. There are elements of this plan that are already in motion, so momentum is building and thankfully I’ve been able to get people together who haven’t been able to get together in the past to accomplish some of the goals, specifically relating to complete streets, and safe routes to schools, and urban forestry.
Low Impact Development Conservation Curriculum/STEM
Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable Electricity Natural Resources
Health/ Economic Sustainability Zero Food Waste Regenerative Design Urban Gardens and Forestry
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The purpose of EarthWorks “Making Science Matter” Educational Outreach for Clean, Green, Beautiful, Healthy Communities (referred to as Business Plan) is to support the successful implementation of the programmatic goals identified in the EarthWorks Business Strategic Plan. The goals are: 1) Facilitate the adoption of culturally based conservation computing technology curriculum grades JK-20 that measurably improves the health of the environment and people. 2) Provide opportunities to study computing by engaging in conservation and public health curricula which includes women, persons with disabilities, African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans and indigenous peoples. 3) Investigate options for online spatial data discovery, dissemination, and computing research applications for innovative conservation, public health, and community design applications. 4) Use existing Zero-Waste, urban gardening, urban forestry, and conservation infrastructures to achieve measurably reduced zero food waste and increase food indepence for the state of Hawai`i. EarthWorks Living History Curriculum uses LEED Platnum examples to demonstrate Low Impact Development (LID) in practice.
Ecological and Bio-sphere studies engage students K-20 in 21st Century lessons that develop robust computing research communities, a computationally competent 21st Century workforce that includes currently under-represented members of our community, and a computationally empowered sustainability minded citizenry. Computing and technology skills meet innovative environmental sustainability with curriculum that incorporates arts, cultural mythology, STEM and computing to develop public health and safety standards by taking a leadership role in designing healthy communities.
Proposed Outcomes Better understanding of how students learn computing with rigorous academic curricula that covers computational concepts and skills to illuminate the breadth of application and potential of computing using arts and culture, public health, conservation and sustainable built environments as base content area themes. Systems and design thinking considering the relationships between the built environment and human health. The first proposed outcome to run a pilot project with private and public schools using EarthWorks “Making Science Matter” curriculum to determine the current issues for each community, engage students in problem solving that moves them from analog to digital while introducing students to computing concepts and research and reconnecting them to their environment and health using the outdoor classroom. The second proposed outcome is to create a team with schools on Hawai’i, Maui, O’ahu, Molokai, Lanai and Kauai to implement urban gardening, agriculture and urban forestry projects that produce measureable outcomes by creating and using robust computing research communities. The third proposed outcome is to improve overall long-term health of participants and empower sustainability minded citizenry that is computationally competent to compete in the 21st Century workforce.
The Cost of Doing Nothing According to the US Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin, “The greatest threat to American health is obesity.” While innovation in information technology (IT) has driven economic growth, underlies many of our recent scientific advances and ensures our national security; it is not surprising then that predicted IT job growth is very strong. Yet students are not majoring in computing in sufficient numbers. This shortfall is exacerbated by the longstanding underrepresentation of women, persons with disabilities, African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans and indigenous peoples in computing. There is an increased rate of obesity in and amongst these underrepresented populations as well. We cannot meet workforce demands without their participation and we cannot, in an increasingly competitive world economy, afford to cede the talents and creativity of so many. There is an increased rate of obesity across all socioeconomic strata and the rate of type-two-diabetes has quadrupled in children ages 8-11 in the past decade. There is a link between the built environment and public health.
Engaging students in scientific, mathematic, engineering and technology endeavors that provide “Sense of Place” solutions to public health, environmental conservation and sustainability for an informed, active, and computationally competent citizenry is reinforced by this program. Increasing public health, safety, and environmental and economic sustainability may be the outcome of this pilot program. If we do nothing, the United States will remain in last place globally in both health and economic viability. (There is about four pages of more compelling information that I cannot access right now, it has to do with the May 8 release that methane is much more harmful and the US makes the most food of any nation yet 40% or 75,000,000 tons or 150,000,000,000 lbs of food is rotting in landfills each year creating a far more harmful gas impact on the ozone than any vehicle on the road. There is a major push for zero waste food AND many schools have worm composting inplace, therefore this is a good opportunity to invigorate existing programs. If Punahou does not have a 10gallon worm composter, please contact Mindy Jaffy and we can get them in stalled for you. Essential for any sort of sustainability). Regarding computational competencies, three challenges exist per the National Science Foundation: 1) the significant underproduction of degrees needed for computing and computingrelated workforce; 2) the longstanding computing degree seeker underrepresentation of many segments of our population; 3) the lack of presence of computing in K-12. Benefits EarthWorks “Making Science Matter” Living History Curriculum focus on computational thinking infused across the curriculum, targeting students and their teachers in both formal and informal educational settings. The curriculum is designed to engage and retain students from underrepresented populations while increasing their knowledge of computational thinking concepts and skills through applied learning activities. Timeline
Huliau Living History Campaign: Making Science Matter/Back to Our Roots Mayl Moving from Analog to Digital May – A Centennial Celebration June Island Wide Summer Solstice Celebration (Affiliate Acknowledgements) July – Summer Fun Education Outreach ESRI and ISTE San Diego Conventions July 23-27 (Exhibits) September Welcome the New Century, Maui at The Dragon Fruit Farm. November, Huliau Nurseries for Arbor Day – exhibit – fundraiser – Arbor Day March: Women’s History Month, Personal Appearances
“Making Science Matter” Living History Curriculum creates opportunities for post-positivist constructivist counter narrative through outdoor classroom
curricula. The post-positivist theory and constructivist methods create basis for critical thinking and discovery. THE VOYAGE OF HOKULEA PLACE BASED HULIAU
Health in the 21st Century Water Land People
Ahupua'a Mythology Living History Campaign
Constructivist Experiential Development Post-positivism Counter-narrative
Technology and Innovation Analog to Digital
Applied Learning
RSS feeds podcasts forecasting geography GIS mapping discovering
Mo’olelo Project Who is your unlikely hero?
Through the living history projects in 6th grade, I will emulate and model post-positivist using constructivist and experiential learning blended with some traditional methods. The introduction of new technology will be associated with following the Hokulea so we can learn about each other, engage in current events, and unite as we work as a team for a common goal -maintaining a clean, green, beautiful Hawai’i while strengthening our culture. Following the Hokulea Voyage will be the touchstone upon which the 6th grade multi-cultural global culture official operational curriculum allows all students access to a global experience using constructivist and experiential pedagogy to create meaning of culture, perspective and global citizenship.
There are community opportunities: counter narratives beyond the school and into the community. The Outdoor Circle founded in 1912 by Cheryl Lowry: feminism and activism counter narrative Magnificent Tree Tours / Eco-Exploration: The Outdoor Circle offers a rare opportunity to experience an insider’s guide to the magnificent trees found in and around Honolulu. Private walking and bus tours available April through November and hosted by Outdoor Circle members. O’ahu Spot Tours provide transportation and docent tour provided by Outdoor Circle. Keeping Hawaii clean, green, and beautiful for 100 years, Outdoor Circle’s history as Hawaii’s oldest environmental protection organization. If you’ve ever enjoyed the shade trees, the grove of 50 monkeypod trees that shade magic island, or the exotic Brazilian and African majesties as you walk through Ala Moana Park – thank the Outdoor Circle volunteers. Tours include Foster Botanical Garden, Ala Moana Beach Park, Magic Island, Urban Tree Canopy Tours, exceptional tree walking tour guides and over the Pali Highway, Windward ½ island experience. Kaimuki Community Web Mapping Program: In 1920 TOC provided forestry in Kaimuki, planting many Mahogany trees along the numbered streets from 6th to 23rd Avenue. These 90 year old beauties provide tremendous heat island reduction, energy savings, air quality benefits, and necessary water preservation and filtration. The Outdoor Circle is working with the City and County Parks Division on a tree inventory. It is an opportunity to enjoy these 50 to 90 foot tall 100-180 foot canopies. Urban gardening and urban forestry are integral engineering components of urban planning for sustainable living. SWAT: Student Weekend Arborist Teams/ Public or Teacher Leaders: Sustainability Weekend Arborist Teams EarthWorks provides customized curriculum in partnership with HEEA, The Outdoor Circle, HIGICC, ESRI mentors, and the City and County of Honolulu Division of Urban Forestry (DUF), and community specialists from artists (Wyland) to regenerative soil specialists (Matthew Lynch) and continues as a resource for the community. EarthWorks Living History curriculum recalls the past, engages students in problem solving situations for a sustainable future: reinvigorating mythology while connecting our keiki to the land, water, and air; moving from analog to digital; and uniting people from 5-95 in urban gardening and forestry as an essential public health benefit with community affiliates to build, nurture and sustain a clean, green, beautiful Hawai’i. EarthWorks “Making Science Matter” Living History Curriculum:
Inspiration and Innovation: art, community, industry, family
The role of Aquaculture and Agriculture in Both Food and Ecosystem Security
Innovations and Leadership in Green Building, Clean Energy, Sustainable Agriculture
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Building a Green Community
Technology integrated learner-centered philosophy programs engage and students and teacher alike. Though technology is not the answer in isolation, a well developed blending of technology for use as a tool to engage in the dynamics of learning is essential and necessary. The following co-curricular activities are available to teachers. Co-Curricular STEM Education Opportunities for the School Community November 18
GIS DAY
Bishop Museum
6th grade projects
November 3
National Arbor Day
The Outdoor Circle
Xeriscape Garden
December 7
National Soil Day
National
6th grade harvest
February 6
Digital Learning Day
Topic Surveys
6th grade SWAT
March
Ocean Promotion
NOAA presentation
Malama Maunalua
May Day
Lei Day Mapping
Hawai`i
Public
Would Punahou be interested in partnering by using the shared learning spaces for a pilot program in early October? Or to get some sustainability clubs going?
EARTHWORKS STEM CURRICULUM EarthWorks Sustainability Modules use the outdoor classroom and ArcGIS mapping for designing healthy communities. Students and teachers utilize ESRI ArcGIS10.1 software to create innovative solutions to place based problems discovered through narrative and investigative research. Sample Projects are designed to incorporate Tony Wagner’s
Seven Survival Skills for the New Economy: critical thinking, collaboration across networks, adaptability and agility, initiative and entrepreneurial skills, effective oral and written communications skills, accessing and analyzing information, curiosity and imagination – innovation and creativity. Learning Objectives: o Demonstrate ability to locate and analyze information in a specific way o Increase math and language skills through applied project based learning o Writing for a variety of audiences o Oral presentation skills for a variety of audiences o Multi-media skills/Electronic Portfolio o Increased stewardship of natural resources and systems thinking in designing innovative solutions to place based problems o Cooperative Learning Strategies for Conflict Resolution Skills The following table is an overview of the curriculum EarthWorksSTEM is developing and piloting: ONE MILE PROJECT Building Capacity by January 2014: There is still time to partner with Punahou: July 15, 2013 Invited to participate HEEA as presenter to get the word out about SWAT programs. If Punahou is interested in a pilot the first week of October, we add to the information as sponsor. Conflict with class schedule unless excused. DUF taskforce meeting 2 on Tuesday, July 9, at 10am. I will be submitting information via report on the Bluetooth equipment I’ve secured and update that Punahou has been provided information and may want to participate. Holy Nativity School and Kaiser High School IB are on board for pilot this fall. HEEA and EarthWorks will build capacity by networking and spreading the word about the innovative ONE MILE PROJECT and 21st Century Environmental Education Training at GIS DAY. November 2013, GIS DAY: HGICC / ESRI / BISHOP MUSEUM – Training Opportunity introduction to program, sign up interested schools and teachers. 2014 January: EARTHWORKS STEM SWAT PROGRAMS BEGIN State Wide Mapping Contest Announced: One Mile Projects get started. It’s a digital mapping contest meant to help get schools excited to participate. January: Exceptional Tree Mapping Tours: The Outdoor Circle – GIS Mapping February: Digital Learning Day: February 6, 2013: US DOE open to all. March: NOAA, GIS/Women in Technology, Geography Map Presentations at Hawaii Pacific GIS Conference – school invited. April: Earth Day is Every Day…What YOU can do today for a better tomorrow! May: Presentations of Learning – Mapping Contest Deadline to enhance HEEA Symposium May: HEEA Symposium: Teacher Training Opportunity/Presentations from participants June: State Wide Mapping Campaign: Light up the islands on a live map!
Professional Development and Training: January 2014: Exceptional Tree Tours and Water Cycle Curriculum and training for teachers K-6. Place based ahupua’a inspired whole systems thinking infuses this journey into an exploration of the outdoor classroom that brings learning to life and therefore fun, creative, innovative thinking begins. Come take a tour. Topics include: Nature Walks and Water Talks/Forests and Water/3 S’s to Success/Plant Part Salad/Dirt You Made My Lunch! All lessons are aligned with federal and state curriculum standards while fostering stewardship and natural resource awareness for innovative problem solving. February 2014: The One Mile Project: Presented by HEEA, EarthWorks, The and City and County of Honolulu and The Outdoor Circle One Mile Project -- an introduction to GIS from ESRI mentors, Isla Young about GIS Day at Bishop Museum, City and County of Honolulu, Parks and Recreation Mauka to Makai. TEACHER 1:1 Design Workshops: Environmental Education in YOUR classroom: Design Workshops 1:2:3 Interested in getting EE into your classroom but just can’t make it fit? Receive 1:1 design training and iPad and technology integration. Kagan Cooperative Learning principals for designing collaborative, team building lessons. Tony Wagner Design Theory for real world problem solving. All projects are designed to foster innovative solutions to problems with solutions presented to a broader audience. Designing healthy communities EarthWorksSTEM K-20 education engineering – matching resources and skills for productive citizens empowered to make a difference in their lifetime. STUDENT AND TEACHERS: SWAT: Student Weekend Arborist Teams. Club advisors, teacher and administrators benefit from this GIS training and introduction to the ARC10.1 software available to all students and teachers. SWAT volunteers once a month throughout the year in various capacities: hiking trails, civil defense, mapping, game development. This may be used as an additional support to classes involved with the One Mile Project, or can be beneficial for school clubs such as the Rotary’s Interact Clubs in high schools. Kaiser High School is interested in participating with the One Mile Project. Invitation to participate in Statewide Mapping Day – one mile project events SWAT: Student Weekend Arborist Teams Kaimuki/McKinley Complex (K-12) SWAT programs available through Interact Clubs and other on-campus environmental, science, math, wellness or design-interested parties. SWAT, Student Weekend Arborist Teams participate in urban forestry and urban gardening initiatives as regenerative efforts toward a sustainable clean, green future for Hawaii. Sponsored by The Outdoor Circle and HEEA as part of the One Mile Project the cost of each tour is $1,000.00. Includes insurance, 15-passenger transportation, driver, project leader, advisor and students. Student Weekend Arborist Teams are
the gateway to GIS and gaming interfaces for designing sustainable solutions for water and heat island issues in the urban setting. Kaimuki Community Web Mapping Program: SWAT In 1920 TOC provided forestry in Kaimuki, planting many Mahogany trees along the numbered streets from 6th to 23rd Avenue. These 90-year-old beauties provide tremendous heat island reduction, energy savings, air quality benefits, and necessary water preservation and filtration. The Outdoor Circle is working with the City and County Parks Division on a tree inventory. It is an opportunity to enjoy these 50 to 90 foot tall 100-180 foot canopies. Urban gardening and urban forestry are integral engineering components of urban planning for sustainable living. SWAT: Student Weekend Arborist Teams. The following organizational chart illustrates how bringing in collaborative partnerships with Jamie Cloud of the Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education (EfS). I see the fit of the 9 core EfS standards with Huliau and Punahou School’s Sustainability Initiatives for 21st Century Leaders
Huliau Living History Campaign Punahou celebrates 175 years Tree Talk: Legends and Legacies Forestry and Water K-Grey, Let’s Keep Hawai’i Clean Green and Beautiful: Performance Art, Exhibits of Learning, Live Stories, GIS SWAT Urban Tree Task Force, Community Leaders: The Outdoor Circle (TOC), City and County of Honolulu Department of Urban Forestry (DUF), Hawaii Environmental Education Alliance (HEEA), The Outdoor Circle (TOC), EarthWorks, and Punahou School. Place Based Narrative: Exhibits and Community Story Corps format booths in the courtyard of the Academy which can also be part of an exhibit. Or Spalding House with the outdoor classroom.
Living History: Huliau A story worth sharing involving TOC’s impact (example: Susan Spangler shared a meeting with President Roosevelt that saved Magic Island, Cheryl Lowry 1912 founding member and first president was an administrator at Punahou also. Complete Streets; Kipuka; Blue Planet; NOAA; Safe Routes to School Facilitated Talk Story Branch Opportunites to provide an event to build volunteer and projects committee information Tree Talk: Legends and Legacies Story corps style interview special event sponsored by central to build community, presented in partnership with Punahou School this interactive exhibit Food, lei making, revisiting our history, making connections, building a thriving community.
Urban Farming and Forestry: Matthew Lynch, Heidi Bornhorst, Breadfruit Institute Street trees/parks/parklets/gardens/plots/farming/food/transportation 100 years? One Mile Project/Huliau Historical Narrative Transpiration photo: 2nd Grade Kuhio Economic Sustainability and Environmental Sustainability: Brian Stone’s core thesis that the principal strategy adopted to mitigate climate change – the reduction of greenhouse gases – will not prove sufficient to measurably slow the rapid pace of warming in cities. The reason for this is that “the primary driver of warming in cities is not the global greenhouse effect but rather the loss of trees and other vegetative cover
to buildings. Rising levels of heat constitute the single greatest climate-related threat to human health, now accounting for more deaths…” (2011). Stone explains that street trees are essential. Long valued as a means of shading and beautifying cities, urban trees assumed an almost iconic status during the heyday of the City Beautiful movement in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a period during which most major cities followed New York’s lead in developing extensive urban parks and networks of street trees. These canopies have been substantially thinned in recent decades. Integral Engineering Components of Urban Planning: Trees are highly effective at aerating soils through plant respiration, the ability of once-forested landscapes to infiltrate rainwater through porous soils is greatly diminished, particularly when deforested zones are resurfaced with building, roads, and parking lots. Unable to infiltrate to ground water systems, a much greater percentage of rainfall must now be collected and diverted to engineered stormwater systems. For communities serious about the public health threats of climate change, reforestation of metropolitan regions, including dense innercity cores, offers perhaps the least costly and most effective strategy available to manage extreme heat and storm water runoff. Brian Stone, Jr., is an Associate Professor in the School of City and Regional Planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he teaches in the area of urban environmental planning and design. His program of research is focused on climate change at the urban scale and is supported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Forest Service. Stone holds degrees in environmental management and planning from Duke University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. EarthWorks K-20 Sustainability Curriculum uses the outdoor classroom and ArcGIS mapping for designing healthy communities. Students and teachers utilize ESRI ArcGIS10.1 software to create innovative solutions to place based problems including: urban forestry inventory, permeable surface assessment, storm water mitigation projects, agricultural sustainability, water and air quality, fossil fuel reduction, and complete streets/pedestrian considerations in planning communities. Teachers develop lessons that incorporate Low Impact Development Design concepts to discover relationships between human wellness and the built environment, while providing Project Based Learning (PBL) experiences to their students.
Response to Jim’s BHAG: To support President Obama (I can forward all the press releases and federal grant information from which these originate – check out the Environmental Education HELP PDF file also attached in folder)
Creating Computational Competency (NSF – national security issue) (i3) (CC) Zero-Food Waste, Methane gas reduction (May 8 press release: US most food, 40% in landfills, 75,000,000 tons of food producing methane, methane worse than carbon – president focus on reducing food waste top issue to reducing climate change from emissions of methane) Urban Forestry, Green Jobs, and Smart Design Designing Healthy Communities Safe Routes to School and Complete Streets One Mile Project: (PERHAPS THIS WOULD MAKE A NICE PARTNERSHIP?) EarthWorks is partnering with the City and County of Honolulu, ESRI GIS mentors, HIGICC, HEEA, and The Outdoor Circle to support K-12 teachers and students in the Hawaii K-20 stream to utilize the available ARC10.2 mapping software in updating the urban forestry inventory.
EARTHWORKS STEM CURRICULUM EarthWorks K-20 Sustainability Curriculum uses the outdoor classroom and ArcGIS mapping for designing healthy communities. Students and teachers utilize ESRI ArcGIS10.1 software to create innovative solutions to place based problems. The following table is an overview of the curriculum EarthWorksSTEM is developing and piloting: Please see website: www.earthworkshawaii.com DIRT! The Movie….Introduction to Natural Resources JK/K Dance, Art and Reading ABCs and 1-2-3s in the garden with music and art
Plant Part Salad, Perfume Baskets, ABCs
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3
Three Ss to successful growing: seeds, soil, sun Observing for warm environment, sowing seeds Dirt You Made My Lunch! My First Garden: Shapes, sorting, categorizing, counting, music, math, language and visual arts Water to the leaves experiment, transpiration, water cycle, ahupua’a, 3 Ss to success, sowing seeds, colors Let’s Have Fun Outside! Water Cycle, Forest, Soil Movement, Music, Writing, Math! Types of Soil: Clay, Loam, Sand. Container Gardens, Planters Living Soil! Vertical Gardening. Living and Non-living things. EcoSystems/Bio-Spheres/Why Compost and Nutrients Matter/Composer and Decomposers GIS USE IN ALL GRADES / GEOGRAPHY / GAMING
4
Hooked on Outdoor Math! Hanging gardens and wall gardens. Trees, air and water quality, and how to pack reduced waste lunch. Counting, Measuring and Graphing. Designing the garden plot. Geometric shapes, design elements, and Planting. What survived? What thrived? What were the conditions? Urban gardens and urban forestry
5/6
Kaimuki Mahogany Tree Mapping / Home and Campus Field Study. Trees of Old Hawaii – Legacy Trees/The Outdoor Circle/ Honolulu Museum of Art – Lyon Arboretum Rain gardens, bio-swales and Ocean Promotion
7/8
GIS USE IN ALL GRADES / GEOGRAPHY / GAMING HAWAII 2050 AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY PLAN
7/8
Then and Now Victory Gardens GIS DAY AT THE BISHOP MUSEUM
9/10
Natural Resources/Global Systems What will you do? HAWAII 2050 AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY PLAN Designing Healthy Communities BE THE FUTURE YOU WANT TO SEE Senior Projects and EPorfolio Presentation
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Celebration How Plants Grow Fruits and Veggie as tags and labels Colors in the garden Spring Salad Trees, Observation, Imagination, Curiosity Scientific Method EcoSystems, story telling, lifecycles, biology (science) iPads Provided ESTEM Math, Language Arts, Hawaii 5-2-1-0 Health Campaign, Nutrition Collaboration, scientific method, innovative problem solving. How to. . . NOAA ARC10.1; ESRI; Tree Canopy Inventory Arc10.1 Intelligent Web Mapping Indigenous Malama Muana Lua, ASLA, and NOAA GIS MAPPING for change
AIR /WATER/SOIL Quality and Solutions
Mapping/Gaming/Design Senior Projects
References: Pam Kohara, CCLC, 21st Century Grant and Kaimuki/McKinley Complex Supervisor Betsy Bounds, Independent Federal Observer Joel Kurokawa, Ki Concepts LLC, LEED, ASLA, TOC Students 125
Grade Level 1,2,3,4,5
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2,3,4,5
100
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School Robin Tom, CCLC 21st Century Site Coordinator at Jefferson Elementary Evelyn Hao, Principal, Kuhio Elementary School Likelike Elementary, CCLC 21st Century Site Coordinator
Five Day Programs June 9-14, 2013 June 1-7, 2013 Summer School March 2013, Spring Break, One Week
Professional Development and Training: Punahou could contract short programs in the learning centers to help everyone understand the hows and whys of the LEED design. This community leadership style allows interested parties and volunteers to enter and their own leisure. The energy and excitement of doing things well and making a difference is essential for good planet citizens. January 2014: Exceptional Tree Tours and Water Cycle Curriculum and training for teachers K-6. Place based ahupua’a inspired whole systems thinking infuses this journey into an exploration of the outdoor classroom that brings learning to life and therefore fun, creative, innovative thinking begins. Come take a tour. Topics include: Nature Walks and Water Talks/Forests and Water/3 S’s to Success/Plant Part Salad/Dirt You Made My Lunch! All lessons are aligned with federal and state curriculum standards while fostering stewardship and natural resource awareness for innovative problem solving. February 2014: The One Mile Project: Presented by HEEA, EarthWorks, The and City and County of Honolulu and The Outdoor Circle One Mile Project -- an introduction to GIS from ESRI mentors, Isla Young about GIS Day at Bishop Museum, City and County of Honolulu, Parks and Recreation Mauka to Makai. TEACHER 1:1 Design Workshops: Environmental Education in YOUR classroom: Design Workshops 1:2:3 Interested in getting EE into your classroom but just can’t make it fit? Receive 1:1 design training and iPad and technology integration. Kagan Cooperative Learning principals for designing collaborative, team building lessons. Real world problem solving. All projects are designed to foster innovative solutions to problems with solutions presented to a broader audience. Designing healthy communities EarthWorksSTEM K-20 education engineering – matching resources and skills for productive citizens empowered to make a difference in their lifetime.
STUDENT AND TEACHERS: SWAT: Student Weekend Arborist Teams. Club advisors, teacher and administrators benefit from this GIS training and introduction to the ARC10.1 software available to all students and teachers. SWAT volunteers once a month throughout the year in various capacities: hiking trails, civil defense, mapping, game development. This may be used as an additional support to classes involved with the One Mile Project, or can be beneficial for school clubs such as the Rotary’s Interact Clubs in high schools. Kaiser High School is interested in participating with the One Mile Project. The following is already in motion and I’m securing the equipment to get November 2013, GIS DAY: HGICC / ESRI / BISHOP MUSEUM – Training Opportunity introduction to program, sign up interested schools and teachers. 2014 January: EARTHWORKS STEM SWAT PROGRAMS BEGIN State Wide Mapping Contest Announced: One Mile Projects get started. It’s a digital mapping contest meant to help get schools excited to participate. January: Exceptional Tree Mapping Tours: The Outdoor Circle – GIS Mapping February: Digital Learning Day: February 6, 2013: US DOE open to all. March: NOAA, GIS/Women in Technology, Geography Map Presentations at Hawaii Pacific GIS Conference – school invited. April: Earth Day is Every Day…What YOU can do today for a better tomorrow! Presentations at Honolulu Museum of Art, Doris Duke Theater May: Presentations of Learning – Mapping Contest Deadline to enhance HEEA Symposium May June: State Wide Mapping Campaign: Light up the islands on a live map! Kaimuki Community Web Mapping Program: SWAT In 1920 TOC provided forestry in Kaimuki, planting many Mahogany trees along the numbered streets from 6th to 23rd Avenue. These 90-year-old beauties provide tremendous heat island reduction, energy savings, air quality benefits, and necessary water preservation and filtration. The Outdoor Circle is working with the City and County Parks Division on a tree inventory. It is an opportunity to enjoy these 50 to 90 foot tall 100-180 foot canopies. Urban gardening and urban forestry are integral engineering components of urban planning for sustainable living. SWAT: Student Weekend Arborist Teams. 21st Century Environmental Sustainability Leadership Development EarthWorks mission is to develop computationally competent citizenry across curricula (PK20) with “Education Engineering for Sustainable 21st Century Leaders”. EarthWorks develops curriculum and outdoor classroom experiences to ignite the passion, creativity and confidence of Hawaii’s teachers and students. EarthWorks develops lessons that incorporate Low Impact Development Design concepts to discover relationships between human wellness and the built environment. Students utilize ESRI ArcGIS10.1 software to create innovative solutions to place based problems including: agricultural sustainability, water quality, flood prevention with raingardens and bioswales,
fossil fuel reduction, complete streets, and safe routes to schools. Teachers participating in “Education Engineering for the 21st Century: ESRI & LID” professional development workshops will have the opportunity to engage their students in quantifiable research activities that utilize Stratum, iTree, ArcGIS, to update and restore the City and County of Honolulu forestry map. Academic Outcomes: → Increased wellness, physical activity and sustainable agriculture → Increased computational competency → Increased community participation → Increased understanding • FOOD INDEPENDENCE • of the Ahupua’a and our role in stewardship URBAN GARDENS Environmental Outcomes: → Increase tree canopy of the urban forest → Increase agricultural sustainability → Increase economic sustainability → Increase moveable communities and community engagement → Increase consumption of healthy foods → Decrease obesity → Decrease fossil fuel consumption
Students all over Hawaii participate in outdoor classroom activities like this “Victory Gardens, Then and Now” project at ‘Iolani School, 7th grade English. Groups of three create teams to explore ways to grow food for a family of four if their were a disruption in delivery systems during World War II. Soil, aquaponics and hydroponics are compared.
Curriculum designed to facilitate a less extractive citizenry in touch with their connection to the land as stewards of this planet at they grow to fulfill their potential: The overarching justification for this mission is the need to decrease consumption with our increasing population while decreasing obesity through nutrition education, while strengthening national security threat of an underrepresented computationally competent citizenry: o LID provides an umbrella broad enough to span curricula PK-20. o Teachers want to know and need to know how to use the ESRI Software provided free to the State of Hawaii. o Materials align with 5-2-1-0, Hawaii 2050, and SWARS goals and objectives. o Culture, Technology, Agricultural and Economic Sustainability are both local and global issues -- this program facilitates global perspectives through systems thinking.
GIS Technology paired with LID concepts creates a systematic and deliberate inclusion of scientific and computationally based exploration of place based sustainability curriculum that includes: fine and digital arts, Hawaiian Culture, health and wellness, science and math, engineering and communications.
Measurable Benefits: Increase environmental and economic sustainability
Environmental Stewardship
statistics based results, gala Increased Membership and Funding
Dynamic Web Presence: Monthly Webinars and activities
Increase agricultural sustainability Increase student performance
Publicity and digital support Club Activities g4 -‐ college
Education Outreach for volunteer branches/ afOiliates
Increase community relationships Decrease Fossil Fuel
Consumption Increase urban forestry Increase computationally competent citizenry Increate creativity, imagination, and innovation Partners: The Outdoor Circle, Keeping Hawaii Clean Green and Beautiful for 100 years HEEA, Hawaii Environmental Education Alliance, Michelle Jones DUF, Department of Urban Forestry Burt Lum, Open Source advocate and radio host ASLA, Hawaii Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Joel Kurokawa Hawaii State Department of Health – Healthy Hawaii Initiative 5-2-1-0 Campaign Dr. Richard Jackson, UCLA, Designing Healthy Communities, Media Policy Center
Malama Maunalua, Safe Routes to Schools / AARP / Complete Streets Taskforce Bioswales and Raingardens on Campuses Cycle on Hawaii Office of Hawaiian Affairs – Kamoa Quitevas - Kipuka GIS HGICC – Craig Clouet, ESRI, President HGICC Women in Technology, Maui – Isla Young, VP HGICC Blue Planet Foundation – Hank - Fossil Fuel Reduction Zebra Technologies – 3D Holographic Mapping Hawaii Department of Education – McKinley, Kaimuki Complex Holy Nativity School, Tim Spurrier, Head of School Summary: To Know Where We Are Going, We Must Look At Our Past Huliau Urban Forestry Initiative Facing Future The Next Century of Clean, Green, Beautiful Hawai’i Currently, there is a lack of professional development for environmental education in the state of Hawai’i and across the country as a whole. Climate change is now. Whether acknowledged in the official or operational curriculum or not, the presidents Hawaii’s 2050 agricultural sustainability plan compliments these efforts, State and City resources are available for designing 21st Century Green Initiatives in schools that will use agricultural sustainability and fuel efficiency as part of the official, operational and extra curricula. The hidden curricula are the experience of working together to improve the overall health of the community. With urban climates increasing 3 degrees a year, and 8 degrees in cities with little, or no urban forestry, urban gardens, ponds or pools, the problem is NOW. Hawaii boasts one of the most historic tree canopies in urban America which makes us such a beautiful travel destination. The Outdoor Circle, established by seven women in 1912 planted all the 90 year old mahogany trees in Kaimuki along the numbered streets from 6th to 23rd Avenue. The Outdoor Circle and the City and County of Honolulu Parks are working together through the Huliau Living History Program to document the life and value of these trees. Join us in touring the majestic trees of Hawaii and celebrate the contributions urban forestry and urban gardening brings to our lives. Be part of a new wave of community volunteer mapping the narrative history through talk-story sessions – sharing history of our urban forests as we work together to build a new canopy for the next 100 years.
Environmental Education Professional Development Environment Education Design Workshops: All subjects welcome! Ahupua’a Art History Digital/Visual Art Fine Arts/Music/Theater Hawaiian Cultural Studies
Foreign Language Science/Technology/Math Physics/Engineering Biology/Chemistry Religion/Ethics
Economics/Health Urban Planning/Design Architecture/Sculpture Urban Forestry
From Environmental Educational and Awareness to ACTION: Stewardship Low Impact Development (LID) is one bridge to restoring the vitality of the land, water, and air upon which we depend. Lack of understanding of economic, health, and civil defense benefits of trees, natural water systems, and ecosystems, impedes overall understanding of the importance of LID. EEPD/LID provides certification for sustainability leadership across broad spectrums of application. Smart design is necessary for any community to reduce flooding, water and air pollution -- reduce overall temperature through urban gardening, water features, and urban forestry, all while improving human wellness. LID can reduce the ever-increasing asthma and other air pollution related health issues causing fatality in both youth and our elderly populations. Watersheds and ocean life are suffering along with the rest of the environment.
ALOHA ‘AINA: Many hands make light work -- working together for a clean, green, beautiful, Hawai’i. At the end of our first year, we celebrate. The year-end celebration is a culminating exposition with specific theme and special guests to acknowledge progress, imagine the goals for next year and give interested parties reason to contribute to support the good work of EarthWorks as we move into the next century.
5 Measuring Success and Feedback for Recalibration Option 1: Enhance communication among partners and the community to facilitate collaborative Measures of success include: • • • • •
Increased public awareness of various environmental and conservation issues. Increased public awareness of the benefits of trees to human health. Increased public awareness of online GIS sources for use by the general public for a variety of purposes. Increased sense of place and use of computational skills in K-20 populations. Increased collaboration among stakeholders.
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Increased number of persons with a thorough understanding of how to participate in civic government. Increased numbers of computer literate degree seeking graduates by the 5th year. Digital surveys to, digital evaluations during and wrap up evaluation per project. Increased corporate and grant funding opportunities and partnerships. Successful partnership and participation with Dr. Richard Jackson. Former Environmental Health Director of the CDC, Pediatrician, Professor and Chair of the UCLA Department of Public Health Sciences at the UCLA School of Health, “Everyone should have a right to live in healthy, non polluted, health promoting areas.” Successful alliances, partnership or participation with: after school programs, youth programs, group homes, clubs, associations and educational institutions grades K-20.
### Personal note: Thanks for taking a look. I really enjoy creating customized curriculum so I’m sure we can do something together. Thanks for the opportunity to share these thoughts. I think I’m going to get this out to you and then take a walk on the beach. Thanks for sharing your BHAGs. I’ve been working very closely with urban planners, at all levels for the past two years and am very familiar with LEED design. May we have lunch one day outside of class? Thanks for sharing your vision, your campus and your benevolent leadership. I appreciate your work and am basking in the goodness of your people and community. Best, Cindie Ogata