Educational Opportunities

  

The 50th Anniversary of Statehood Commission will support various educational events and projects that will be informative for the entire community.

The Commission hopes to highlight the history behind this momentous event through several educational components, as detailed below.

 

50 Voices of Statehood

          This exciting and informative project features interviews of 50 individuals, who provide a wide variety of opinions, experiences, and stories about statehood.  The award-winning Wai‘anae Seariders are producing and filming these vignettes, which are geared towards both school classroom use and community education.  Each vignette is being aired from August 25, 2008 to August 2009 on radio and television stations statewide. A different “voice” is featured every week.  50 Voices of Statehood will provide our community, students, and visitors an opportunity to learn about Hawai‘i’s history.

 

Time Capsules

            For this exciting project, all Hawai‘i schools will be invited and encouraged to participate in creating their own unique Statehood commemorative time capsule.  This project will take place during the second semester of the 2008-2009 school year.  Time capsule participants will have a rare opportunity to preserve and commemorate today for the students of tomorrow.  By gathering commemorative items to place in the capsules, students can reflect on how much things have changed since 1959, the year of statehood.
 

Traveling Exhibits

           These exhibits allow students to experience the 50th anniversary of Statehood commemoration first-hand. They are featured in the Hawai'i State Capitol, State Library, and Airports Statewide. Historic photos and an educational time line inform and enrich both kama'aina and visitors alike. 

 

Calendar Contest

            The calendar contest, involving students in kindergarten through twelfth grade, allowed for a wide range of critical thinking and creativity.  The contest focused around a theme of civic responsibility in Hawai‘i.  Students involved in the calendar contest not only learned about our state’s remarkable history, but also explored the importance of civic responsibility and what they can do to help others in order to make Hawai‘i a better place.

 
               Students in kindergarten through sixth grade will be able to visually interpret the meaning of statehood by creating pieces of art that will be displayed at the Hawai‘i Convention Center.  Although the art will focus on a statehood theme, students will explore a broader understanding of Hawai‘i’s history as they create their pieces.


Website

             The award-winning Wai‘anae Seariders, who in addition to producing and filming the 50 Voices of Statehood, have also assisted the Commission in creating an interactive voices website.  This online component will be accessible to teachers, students and the general community.  The website provides clips of the 50 Voices of Statehood, biographies of each “voice”, photos, blogs, historical and background information, and much more.  Teachers will be able to access the website for ideas and information to use in their classrooms.

 

For more information about how you can become involved, email statehood@hawaii.gov.

 

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