Students & Teachers
For Keiki
Student Activity Pages
Explore these activities from The Journey Home book to have fun and learn more about keeping our beaches and streams clean!
Apoha the ‘O‘opu
Learn more about ‘o‘opu and other native animals that live in our island streams!
The Journey Home Book
Aloha! ‘O Apoha ko’u inoa! Hello! My name is Apoha! Read and complete the activities in the booklet to help my on journey home!
View and download The Journey Home 2 here.
A read-along ebook of ‘The Journey Home’ can be borrowed from the Hawaii State Library website.
For Teachers
Teacher Toolkit
The lesson plans below are designed to increase each student’s awareness of their role in reducing polluted runoff. All lessons can be altered to be age/grade appropriate. Activities can be adapted for local watersheds and waterways.
Lesson Plans
- Protecting Our Water Resources: Student Activities for the classroom (K-9)
- Hawaiian values in the Ahupua‘a (K-5)
- Stormwater Consequences (4-9)
- Become A Clean Water Hero (4-6)
- Apoha the O‘opu (4-6)
- To Protect Your Steams, Protect Your Mountains (5-7)
- Watershed Education Lesson Plans (6-8)
- Teacher Resources for Introducing Urban Stormwater Quality Concepts to the Classroom (6-12)
Project WET
Project WET promotes awareness of and increased knowledge about water resources by providing hands-on, science-based water to educators. The City and County of Honolulu is a facilitating agency of Project WET.
Testimonials from Teachers
“Thank you so much for…inspiration + information… I’m ready to dive right into our Project Wet instructions with my students.” -Johnetta
“Thank you very much for leading such an awesome teacher workshop… I’m excited to do more of the Project WET activities in the following weeks.” -Joyce
EarthEcho Water Challenge
The EarthEcho Water Challenge builds public awareness and involvement in protecting water resources by engaging citizens to conduct basic monitoring of their local waterbodies.
Locally, students from middle and high schools collect and analyze samples from stream segments to observe the impacts of storm water runoff from their neighborhood. Results are shared with participating communities around the world.
The Journey Home
Contact us to request hard copies of The Journey Home and The Journey Home 2. For public school educators, ‘The Journey Home’ is available as a read along on Hawaii State DOE Library website.
The Journey Home Puppet Show
Watch ‘The Journey Home’ come to life with this puppet show!
‘Ōlelo Youth Xchange Contest
This annual video competition encourages student producers to enter a video of their own creation in several categories under a yearly theme.
2024 information coming soon!
Additonal Resources
Botanical Field Guide
This Guide to the plants of the Kulana‘ahane Trail in Moanalua Valley was developed with three local elementary schools in partnership with the Honolulu Museum of Art School.
How Long Until It’s Gone? Click here to download this poster.
Want to do more?
GET INVOLVED to reduce the pollution in your community!
Volunteer at a cleanup event, mark storm drains, help give out information about pollution prevention, or just have fun at a community event!
