Lesson Objective:
Elementary school teachers (Grades 3-5) planning a visit to Hanauma Bay will be able to explain how Hawaiian fishing kapu are designed to contribute to fish conservation and how an understanding of fish life cycles is necessary when practicing fish conservation.
Key Concepts:
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Hawaiians used the kapu system to conserve fish by preventing overfishing.
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In order to prevent overfishing today, we can limit the fish we take and time our fishing to the life cycles of fish.
Lesson Objectives
HCPS III Learning Standards:
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Social Studies - Grade 4 (SS.4.4.1) Evaluate the kapu system in the context of the time.
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Social Studies - Grade 4 (SS.4.5.1) Describe the roles, rights, and responsibilities of each class in pre-contact Hawaiʻi.
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Science - Plants and Animals in Hawaiʻi (SC.PAH.3.6) Describe how conservation efforts have impacted organisms in Hawaiʻi. Explain how human actions (e.g., conservation, introduction of nonindigenous species, destruction and fragmentation of native habitat, hunting, over harvesting, poor land use practices, stream diversion) have impacted organisms in Hawaiʻi since the first Polynesians.
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Environmental Science (SC.ENV.5.3) Explain how population growth and natural resource consumption affect global sustainability.
Instructional Hierarchy:
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Skill: Explain how knowledge of the life cycles of fish is necessary to practicing fish conservation.
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Subordinate Skill: Define fish conservation.
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Subordinate Skill: Give examples of life cycles of Hawaiian reef fish.
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Skill: Explain the connection between Hawaiian kapu and conservation
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Subordinate Skill: Define traditional Hawaiian kapu.
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Subordinate Skill: Give examples of traditional Hawaiian fishing kapu.
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Subordinate Skill: Explain the connection between fish life cycles and Hawaiian kapu
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