COURSE DESCRIPTION
Instructor:
Ming Wei Koh kohmingwei@gmail.com
Rainbow Pharaon rpharaon@hawaii.edu
This course will empower educators to effectively develop and deliver garden-based, ʻāina-based, and/or place-based lessons by exploring Hawai‘i’s native plants as the theme of instruction. Topics will include basic native plant identification, planting, care, and the critical role these plants play in the unique bio-cultural, social, and ecological systems of Hawaiʻi. This course supports academic achievement and engagement of both participants and their students by utilizing native plants as a theme to implement content standards, frameworks Na Hopena ʻĀʻo (HĀ), and ʻĀina Aloha Competencies, and methods of practice relevant to Hawaiʻi-based learners.
Dates: July 6, 2026, through October 30, 2026 (Portfolio Due Date September 15, 2026)
This online course will begin on July 6, 2026. The payment deadline is July 3, 2026, by noon HST.
Before the start date, participants will receive instructions from the instructors on how to access the course content. The instructions will be sent to the email used with the Learn Soft platform and will most likely end in @k12.hi.us. This is the email address that the DOE system assigns to you, and we cannot change it through the HSTA PD website. It is the participant’s responsibility to check for this email before the course starts. Contacting HSTA after the start date to inform us that you did not get the information will not result in a refund.
THIS COURSE IS OPEN TO HSTA MEMBERS
Course Features
- Lectures 0
- Quizzes 0
- Duration Lifetime access
- Skill level All levels
- Students 0
- Assessments Yes
