KE KAULIKE – He Ha‘awina Kīwila – Civics Hawaiian Style
VIDEO GUIDE for ELEMENTARY LESSONS
Aloha and mahalo for your interest! The following videos are offered in the Ke Kaulike curriculum to enhance these civics lessons. Most
videos have been locally created; others are included with permission. Some videos were developed by local students who provided
submissions to the annual statewide E Ola Pono Video Competition (See www.creatingponoschools.com).
For additional DVDs or further information, please contact Velina Sugiyama, Administrative Assistant - University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Center on Disability Studies - 1776 University Avenue, UA 4-6 Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822 - 808 956-5688 velina@hawaii.edu
We hope these videos help provide useful messages about civic engagement and sustainability in Hawai‘i. Videos and lessons will also be
available on line through the UH-CDS website (http://www.cds.hawaii.edu/ - Browse through projects)
LESSON CONNECTIONS:
Lesson #
DESCRIPTION / DISCUSSION IDEAS
VIDEO TITLE / TOPIC
Lesson
These brief videos are messages from Hawai‘i youth that illustrate E Ola Pono, what it means
Hawaii’s Students # 1, 4
to live with respect and harmony. Connect these stories as students learn more about their own
E OLA PONO VIDEO self and home culture in the first lesson, or use these short videos as class project examples and
COMPETITION
then work to help students create their own video message to their community (lesson #4). Find
out about the annual E Ola Pono Competition and see more video and story entries about pono
ENTRIES
at: www.creatingponoschools.com
(1-2 minutes each)
Short video messages about Videos Included on the KE KAULIKE DVD:
living pono (in harmony and
respect) from schools
across the State
1. Malama ‘Āina
2. Lending a Helping Hand
3. Hopeless Addiction-Anti Drugs
4. The Right Gambit
5. Ancient Times – o ke Ola
6. I Ka Olelo
7. Pono Guard
8. Do Right
9. Respect Our Environment
10. In Pono We Live
Possible discussion prompts:
Before watching: If you were to share a message to others about living pono, or living in
harmony and respect with everyone and everything, what would you focus upon? What do
people need to think about remember?
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After watching: What message did each video makes want their audience to understand? How
is this relevant to our lives? Which issue might be something we can do something about?
Blanche Pope
Elementary students -
KABOLO’S WAY
OF PONO
(4:35 minutes)
Watch students enact a
peer’s story they felt had
important meaning as they
learn what it looks like to
“be pono”
From Kūkulu Nā Uapo –
MANA’O OF KUPUNA
(9:00 minutes)
A collection of short words
of wisdom by cultural
practitioners and kupuna
from Hawai‘i
Capt. Charles Moore ON THE SEAS OF
PLASTIC
www.TED.com
(7:23 minutes)
Footage that makes you
stop and think about using
plastics
Lesson
This short student production of a classmate’s story is about relationships and how trying to be
helpful might not have the best results, yet it could still be a pono thing to do. Link this story to #1, 3
lesson #1 when students are learning about proverbs or lesson #3 when they explore local
communities.
Possible discussion prompts:
-Before watching: Do you remember a time when you tried to help but things didn’t really work
out well? Did you ever have anyone try to help you when things didn’t go well? How did these
experiences make you feel?
After watching: What did you like about this video? What did the students want their audience
to learn? How might this message help us with our lives?
This video, originally featured in a science curriculum, shares a vast amount of information
Lesson #1
about values, protocols, and the lifestyle led by elders and cultural practitioners, past and
present.
Possible discussion prompts:
-Before watching: What things to you hear your kupuna or grandparents share with you to help
you in life make good choices?
After watching: What new things did you learn from people in the video about making good
life choices?
If you want students to learn about ocean pollution, have them watch this video with Captain
Moore so they can see the impact of plastics on our world. This video can help students
understand we have one ocean and planet needing care. It can also provide motivation for
community service projects.
Lesson #4
Possible discussion prompts:
-Before watching: Who has seen plastic and other rubbish at one of our beaches? How do you
think plastic gets into our ocean? What do you think life on this planet might be impacted by
plastic and other garbage in our ocean?
-After watching: What is causing this huge amount of rubbish in the ocean? How might it
impact life on this planet? What can each person do about this problem?
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Lesson #4
Blanche Pope
Elementary Students
OUR JOURNEY
TOWARD PONO
(5.50 minutes)
Watch what one group of
students expressed as their
vision of a pono* school
(*pono = harmony and
respect for all)
Ka’u students -
YOKWE EN AD
EKAJOUR
(Together We Are Strong)
(15.5 minutes)
A story about a former
island home
OTHER RELEVANT
VIDEO RESOURCES
Students at Blanche Pope Elementary have learned about Hawaiian values and ways of living,
including what it means to be pono, or in harmony and balance with everyone and everything.
They documented their pono experiences, which can help others see experiences of another
community beyond theirs. Find out more about the video contest that this film was submitted
for by going to www.creatingponoschools.com
Possible discussion prompts:
- Before watching What do you think pono means? How might it look at a school?
After watching: What did you learn about this school’s journey toward pono? Do you think this
journey ever ends? Why or why not?
Created by students from Ka’u on Hawai‘i Island with their teacher and a community
videographer, this homegrown documentary tells the story of how these students’ home of
Enewetak in the Marshall Islands was devastated by U.S. Nuclear testing in the 1940’s and
1950’s. To order additional copies go to
http://www.cds.hawaii.edu/main/store/
.
Lesson #4
Molokai Return to Pono: This 9 minute video that shares the past, present, and future of
Molokai, with a focus on the people, culture, environment, and community life. Available for
purchase (See Amazon), or “Google” the title to view it at a free internet site like:
http://www.in.com/videos/watchvideo-molokai-return-to-pono-4228485.html
Life in these Islands: A 1 hour locally produced TV special by Don Mapes & Kawika Kahiapo.
For short videos or to buy this DVD visit www.lifeintheseislands.com
A Mau A Mau-To Continue Forever – Cultural and Spiritual Traditions of Moloka'i with
Hãlau Hula O Kukunaokalã - Produced by John Kaimikaua & Nalani Minton To buy the DVD
contact kakaimi@alulike.org
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