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ʻĀina is a game that challenges you to use strategy and cooperation to flip a landscape from negative to positive, distribute resources for lasting wealth, and open pathways for water to flow—all in 64 moves. The cards are also the playing board. They create a landscape of a stylized ahupuaʻa (traditional land division), and the entire game revolves around laulima (working together) to restore its vibrancy.

Work collaboratively using an ʻŌiwi approach to mālama ʻāina in order to transform your ahupuaʻa and set it to prosper for future generations!

This durable 100-meter fiberglass measuring tape is an essential tool for STEM activities that require long-distance measurement, whether you’re conducting experiments on motion, mapping ecosystems, building scale models, or collecting field data. The tape’s rugged design and easy-rewind handle make it perfect for outdoor use, and its metric measurements align with scientific conventions.

This set of 60 lab-grade, professionally prepared microscope slides includes a wide variety of plant, insect, animal tissue, cell, and microorganism specimens—each clearly labeled and organized in a sturdy storage case. Slides are standard 25 × 75 mm optical glass, ideal for use with common compound microscopes—perfect for middle school STEM educators exploring life science and biology.

The Acrylic Pendulum Wave is a striking physical demonstration that helps middle school students explore patterns in motion, periodic behavior, and system interactions. Multiple pendulums of slightly different lengths swing together to create evolving wave-like patterns, giving students a visual and intuitive way to observe how small differences can produce complex, predictable behavior over time.

This apparatus is especially effective for anchoring discussions around oscillations, timing, and energy transfer without requiring advanced mathematics. Students can observe repeating patterns, identify cycles, and reason about why the motion changes—even though the system follows consistent rules. The visual impact makes it an excellent entry point for inquiry, prediction, and model-based reasoning.

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An Ocean in Mind poses a number of provocative questions about the ways in which the human mind acquires, utilizes, and transmits different forms of knowledge. Author Will Kyselka has woven an exploration of this theme around the story of the Hōkūleʻa, a re-creation of a traditional Polynesian sailing vessel that completed a successful roundtrip journey between Hawaii and Tahiti in 1980. From this story emerges portraits of two men who played integral roles in that voyage.

Nainoa Thompson, a young man of Hawaiian descent, kept the Hōkūleʻa on its 6,000-mile course using only the stars and the sea as his guides. He was inspired by Carolinian navigator Mau Piailug, a gentle, softspoken man with keen instincts and an unlimited understanding of the oceans and heavens derived from his Oceanic cultural past. Thompson also worked with Kyselka to generate a body of information concerning movement of the stars using the Bishop Museum Planetarium as a resource.

How Thompson was eventually able to forge these vastly different approaches to knowledge into a cogent wayfinding system uniquely his own, and his rediscovery of an almost forgotten cultural heritage in the process, makes for a thrilling adventure story.

A tablet with WiFi, Bluetooth and Camera capabilities. These iPads are perfect for online research, robotics, and data collection with Pasco sensors. All iPads come pre-loaded with Sphero and Ozobot apps, as well as the data collection apps necessary for all Pasco sensors.

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Water rocketry is one of the most fun and exciting hands-on science activities around. Converting empty plastic soda bottles into high-flying rockets provides a great opportunity for students to discover important scientific principles such as Newton’s laws, acceleration, thrust, and inertia.

A second-generation launcher, the AquaPort II was redesigned to be safer than ever and still offer consistent launching for water rockets of various sizes: 2 liter, 20 ounce, and some 1 liter.

The Bird Beak EDP Kit immerses students in the world of Hawai‘i’s endemic birds through a hands-on engineering design challenge. Students use a variety of materials to design, build, and test bird beaks tailored to specific food types—modeling the relationships between form and function. The lesson integrates natural selection, adaptation, and biodiversity while applying the full Engineering Design Process (EDP).

This kit includes bird “food” items, and an EDP notebook that guides learners to document their process, test different designs, and reflect on how birds have evolved to survive in unique ecological niches across Hawai‘i.

This Bowling Pins and Balls Set includes two distinct types of pins—durable plastic pins in bright primary colors and foam pins with classic white-and-red striping—along with three sets of balls of different sizes and weights. This variety allows students to investigate the effects of mass, force, and material properties on motion and energy transfer, making it an ideal tool for NGSS-aligned physical science explorations.

Students can design and conduct experiments to explore Newton’s Laws, momentum, and collisions, while comparing how different materials (foam vs. plastic) and ball weights impact outcomes like speed, distance, and knockdown force.

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Fill your classroom with “A-ha!” moments as students play and solve eight unique brainteasers in a Centers format. Students will build problem solving and critical thinking skills with hands-on puzzles including Straight Arrow, The Missing “T”, Four T’s, 4-Piece Pyramid, Starburst, The Fifth Chair, Double Square and Pack It In. Each brainteaser encourages students to exercise logic in new ways and builds confidence to take on more difficult challenges. 24 Hint Cards provide as-needed help to students who feel stumped.

Age Recommendation: Ages 7 and up

Grades 8-12

Marine debris is an environmental problem of global importance, enlisting the concern and action of scientists, policy makers, as well as the general public. This three-lesson kit focuses primarily on plastic marine debris. Students critically examine data and samples and take part in activities that explore the causes, geographical distribution, and biological impacts of marine debris. Each lesson can be completed in about 50–60 minutes, but many of the activities are discrete and can be easily rearranged to fit various curricular objectives and time constraints.

Grades 3-8

Students learn about the causes of coral reef destruction by assuming various character roles in this marine murder-mystery. As they determine who killed Seymour Coral, students learn the basics of DNA testing. Suspects include global warming, sedimentation, and other threats facing coral reefs today.

This activity is designed for 15 students, but can be modified for 12-24 students. A narrated PowerPoint that provides background information on coral reefs can be shared in advance in a separate lesson. The total class time for the PowerPoint, skit, and pre- and post-surveys is about 100 minutes.

Grades 3-8

This kit introduces students to one of the key skills needed by anyone considering a maritime career: knot tying. Step-by-step instructions with color photos are provided, along with pre-made reference knots. Each knot is associated with a practical application and with a professional who uses this knot in their job. Students learn about a variety of marine science careers and their education requirements. This lesson can be completed in one hour.

Grades 6-12

This two-lesson kit familiarizes students with the causes and consequences of ocean acidification: the process by which our ocean is becoming increasingly acidic. Briefly, ocean acidification is caused by increasing atmospheric concentrations of CO₂, some of which dissolves in the ocean and forms an acid. An acidic ocean poses threats to marine ecosystems, such as coral reefs. Ocean acidification is one of the most serious environmental issues facing the planet and is predicted to have devastating impacts within the next century.

Lesson 1 includes a simple hands-on experiment, a short PowerPoint, and optional readings with worksheets. In Lesson 2, students conduct a more in-depth experiment with electronic probes to simulate the process of ocean acidification. A pre- and post- survey is included. Each lesson will require approximately an hour.

Grades 8–12 for Lessons 1 & 2
Grades 10–12 for Lessons 3 & 4

Collecting and analyzing oceanographic data helps students appreciate the relevance of marine science to their own lives and understand the value of technology in science. This four-lesson kit introduces some fundamental concepts in oceanography including density, ocean circulation, nutrient cycling, and variations in the chemical, biological, and physical properties of seawater through hands-on and computer-based experiments. Each lesson is designed to be completed in about 70 minutes, but the activities are discrete and can be rearranged to fit various curricular objectives and time constraints. Pre- and post- surveys are included to assess student learning.