Assessing Outdoor Experiential Food & Agricultural Science Learning with FEAST
Date: Saturday, October 29, 2022
Time: 9:00am-2:30pm with a working lunch
Location: Hanahau'oli School Outdoor Pavilion, 1922 Makiki Street, Honolulu HI 96822
Cost: $40 per person.
Scholarships for registration fees are available! Please inquire here.
Additionally, up to ten $200 travel stipends are available for Neighbor Island residents. More details below!
Remote island communities need agricultural science education to address important regional issues of food security and sustainability. Join us at our upcoming in-person workshop to learn how to utilize a collection of teaching resources produced by the Food Experiences for Agricultural Science Teaching (FEAST) Project.
This workshop is for teachers in grades 1 through 6 who would like to use gardening as a teaching tool to teach in a multi-disciplinary manner. This workshop will focus on using the NGSS Crosscutting Concepts as a multi-disciplinary teaching and assessment tool.
FEAST, funded by the USDA (award #2021-67037-33378) brought together 10 master teachers, three from Guam and seven from Hawaiʻi to develop the place-based flexible learning resources. Guided by Project Director, Dr. Lori Andersen, NGSS expert, and Dr. Koh Ming Wei, Agri-Science expert, the teachers co-developed eight lessons for each grade cluster (Gr. 3 - 5 and Gr. 6 - 8). Lesson topics address issues that are important to island living and food sustainability, including the effect of moon phases on crops, growing food, reducing waste, and the importance of eating local foods.
Participants will receive a classroom set (25 copies) of the Gr. 3 - 5 student workbooks and a learning toolkit consisting of seeds, a thermometer, a measuring tape, colored pencils and a magnifying lens, worth $350. Additionally, free downloads of the teacher and family guides, as well as copies of the Gr. 6 - 8 resources are available here.
Additionally, $200 travel stipends are available to up to ten Neighbor Island residents. To be eligible for the stipend, you must select the "Neighbor Island Resident" ticket option during registration and be in attendance for the full 5.5 hour workshop at Hanahau'oli School on October 29, 2022. Stipend checks will be mailed within one month after completion of the program.
Please note that during our working lunch we will be conducting a fun and educational Grown not Flown Musubi Challenge, found in Lesson 6 - Why should we eat local foods? Please bring locally grown and harvested foods to make musubis to share for lunch. We will have some rice and nori ready, but do feel free to bring more, as well as alternatives to rice and nori. Please see this Padlet for examples and look at this rubric for ideas.
Additional items to bring along with you include:
A hat, water bottle and sensible footwear as we will be spending some time outdoors
Reusable shopping bags and/or a box or tote to gather and transport your classroom set of FEAST materials
Oahu-based teachers: Please bring a small bucket or extra bags to bring home some potting mix
About the Facilitator:
Koh Ming Wei is an “intellectual farmer” with a PhD in Sustainability Education, and insatiable curiosity, and is an educational consultant, curriculum developer, māmaki farmer, and distiller. Ming Wei, who co-founded Center for Getting Things Started and leads the Education for Sustainability (EfS) programming there, is also an independent researcher focusing on the effect of EfS on students, teachers, and their community. Widely traveled, Ming Wei is interested in how different cultures and indigenous communities work with nature to resolve ecological and social challenges through community partnerships, agriculture, food, music and art, and place-based education.