News & Events
- Upcoming Teacher workshops
May 16-Puuwaawaa -Flyer
Past Events
- May 9, 2009 Imi Pono No Ka Aina workshop on the Alala with a lesson demo from PRISM.
- May 6, 2009 Keaukaha Elementary Ohana Night-PRISM was the focus of the schools monthly Ohana Night, with booths from each grade level using curricula that each grade level experienced.
- April 25, 2009
- Ocean Day a the Pacific Aquaculture and Costal Resource Center in Keaukaha. Fellows helped keiki build their own coral polyp and helped make ocean organism puppets.
- Earth Day Celebration at the Keauhou Outrigger in Kailua-Kona. Fellows helped keiki build their own coral polyps and helped make ocean organism puppets.
- April 24, 2009 Hawaii Community College Earth Day Fair. Fellows planted mamaki seeds with keiki and talked about the value of native plants in Hawaii.
- April 18, 2009 KeikiFest in Waimea at Parker Ranch Center. Fellows planted mamaki seeds with kids and talked about the importance of the land.
- January 2009
- New curricula was piloted in classrooms with partner teachers.
- December 2008
PRISM article published in Ka Lono Hanakahi Volume 24, No. 4. Read it here. - May 2008
PRISM will be help Naalehu elementary with a hands-on science class which will be able to explore The Nature Conservancy's conservation land mauka of the KAU district. - Quarter 4 is in full swing. New teacher-fellow partnerships have begun and may be at your school.
- New curriculum will be made available soon on the curriculum page. New units include Ocean Grazers, Anchialine Ponds, and Dryland Forest.
- June 2008
PRISM wilbe presenting at the 89th annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Pacific Division. THe meeting will take place at Hawaii Preparatory Academy in Waimea from the 15th-20th of June. The public is invited to attend. To learn more about the meeting visit www.sou.edu/aaaspd - April 26th Ocean Day! 2008
Ocean Day on April 26th Saturday at the PACRC facility in Keaukaha, Hilo. Fellows will be there to talk about the PRISM program and demonstrate some fun hands-on activities. Click here to read an article about the event! - April 19th-20th Kokua Festival 2008
The annual Kokua Festival on Oahu was held and PRISM was there! At our booth fellows talked about the PRISM program, showed real zooplankton, made puppets of Hawaiian birds and demonstrated the curricula. To read more about the koukua festival visit www.kokuafestival.com. To read an article in the Honolulu Advertiser that mentions PRISM click here. - April 19th Coral Reef Awareness Day 2008
Coral reef awareness day on Saturday April 19th at Kahaluu Beach Park in Kona. Fellows talked about the PRISM program and demonstrated some fun hands-on activities. Click Here to read an article about PRISM at the event, just log into the West Hawaii Today website. - April 12th 2008
KeikiFest on April 12th (Saturday) in Waimea at the Parker Ranch Shopping Center. Fellows talked about the PRISM program and demonstrated some fun hands-on activities. - April 11th 2008
PRISM staff met with Hilo/Laupahoehoe/Waikea School Complex Area Principals and t the Chancellor’s Advisory Board at UH Hilo to showcase PRISM accomplishments and encourage participation in PRISM next school year. - March 8th 2008
The Hawaiian Family Affair Fair on Saturday, March 8th featured a PRISM activity booth at the UH Hilo campus center plaza. Download this flyer for more info!! - February 1st 2008
PRISM spoke to the Hilo Rotary Club about the mission of the program. - December 2007
Fellows and teachers finished up quarter 2. Some exciting new curricula were pilotted and should be made available in the spring! - November 15th 2007
Fellow Colby Kearns and Blake McNaughton attended the first annual Ocean literacy conference in Oahu to further the goals of PRISM and collaborate with partners around the state. Click here to learn more about the conference. - October 17th 2007, Wed at 8-8:30p on channel 55
Core Staff Jan Zulich and Elizabeth Stacy as well as fellow Colby Kearns represented PRISM on In Focus on UH Hilo TV with . See this announcement for more information. - October 1st 2007
PRISM events published in the Hawaii Tribune Herald. Click here to read the full article. - September 2007
Curiculum is now available to download from the website!!! - July 25th to 27th 2007
PRISM teachers and fellows presented their work at the annual Hawaii Conservation Conference (HCC) in Honolulu. For
more about the Hawaii Conservation Conference please click here. - July 11th to 20th
Fellows, teachers, administrators from Hawaii's schools, and UHH faculty participated in a summer institute to train the new PRISM teams. See pic to right. - May 2007
New graduate student fellows were selected. Congratulations to all the new fellows! - April 2007
PRISM showcases some interactive lessons at Keikifest in Waimea and Ocean-day in Hilo. See some keiki's racing their plankton at the Waimea Keikifest below while PRISM fellow Colby Kearns looks on.
Students race their plankton at the Waimea Keikifest