Food
A science-based inquiry unit
for kukunaokalā (K/1)
Learn how Hanahau‘oli School’s Kukunaokalā (kindergarten and first grade) class embarked on an exploration of Food in the 2023-2024 school year. The unit is framed around the questions, Where does our food come from? How do different sources of food meet our need for nutrition? How are food, culture, and sustainability connected within our community in the past, present, and future? It is part of a larger two-year exploration of the concepts of Basic Needs, Interdependence, and Change and Constancy. The Food Unit supports the School Wide Learning Outcome of understanding how the world works and one’s place in it. It broadens children’s understanding of where food comes from and the process involved in making food accessible. Children have opportunities to understand how food moves through the community, from its place of origin to place of consumption, learning that there are many paths of food distribution. They also relate what they learn about food today to how native Hawaiians traditionally obtained food from their ahupua‘a - from mauka (the mountains) to makai (the ocean). Click here to download a PDF of the complete unit plan or scroll through the pages of the unit plan below.
