Hawaii

SS.4.1 Creation Beliefs and Polynesian Migration

• History

  • SS.4.1.18 Perspectives

    • Creation Beliefs

      • SS.4.1.18.1 Describe how early Hawaiians viewed the creation of the world and their environment through oral traditions

    • Migration Stories

      • SS.4.1.18.2 Summarize migration stories passed down through Hawaiian oral tradition

• Geography

  • SS.4.1.15 Human Population: Spatial Patterns and Movements

    • Identify oceans and continents (4-G.3)
    • Select oceans and continents (4-G.4)
    • Name oceans and continents (4-G.5)

    • Migration Methods

      • SS.4.1.15.3 Explain how voyaging skills and canoe design allowed Polynesians to travel from Asia throughout the Pacific to Hawai'i

SS.4.2 Early Hawaiian-Environment Interaction

• Geography

  • SS.4.2.13 Geographic Representations: Spatial Views of the World

    • Environmental Characteristics of a Volcanic Island

      • SS.4.2.13.1 Identify major geographic characteristics of the Hawaiian archipelago, including its relative location to other major land masses

        • Identify Earth's land features using photographs (4-G.1)
        • Identify Earth's land features using satellite images (4-G.2)

  • SS.4.2.16 Global Interconnections: Changing Spatial Patterns

    • Human Distribution

      • SS.4.2.16.2 Explain how geographic characteristics of the islands influenced locations of early settlements

        • Identify Earth's land features using photographs (4-G.1)
        • Identify Earth's land features using satellite images (4-G.2)

  • SS.4.2.14 Human-Environment Interaction: Place, Regions, and Culture

    • Environmental Modification

      • SS.4.2.14.3 Describe how the original settlers modified their environment

SS.4.3 Early Hawaiians and the Land

• Economics

  • SS.4.3.10 Exchange and Markets

    • Natural Resources

      • SS.4.3.10.1 Analyze how early Hawaiians used natural resources to meet their needs

        • Natural resources (3-H.2)
        • What is economics? (4-N.1)

• Geography

  • SS.4.3.15 Human Populations: Spatial Patterns and Movements

    • Native vs. Non-Native

      • SS.4.3.15.2 Differentiate between native and non-native plants and animals used by early Hawaiians

SS.4.4 The Evolution of Hawaiian Culture

• Geography

  • SS.4.4.16 Global Interconnections: Changing Spatial Patterns

    • Hawaiian and Other Polynesian Cultures

      • SS.4.4.16.1 Compare aspects of early Hawaiian culture and other Polynesian cultures

• Civics

  • SS.4.4.7 Civic Virtues and Democratic Principles

    • Core Values of Early Communities

      • SS.4.4.7.2 Explain how core values of the early Hawaiians are applicable to modern-day Hawaiʻi

SS.4.5 Beliefs of Early Hawaiian Society

• Civics

  • SS.4.5.6 Civic and Political Institutions

    • Hawaiian Gods

      • SS.4.5.6.1 Investigate the roles of gods in early Hawaiian society

    • Roles and Responsibilities

      • SS.4.5.6.2 Summarize how the concept of mana and one's genealogy determined rights and responsibilities

SS.4.6 Governance in Early Hawaiian Society

• Civics

  • SS.4.6.8 Processes, Rules and Laws

    • Kapu and Regulations

      • SS.4.6.8.1 Explain how the kapu system regulated people's behavior and lives

• Economics

  • SS.4.6.9 Economic Decision Making

    • Kapu and Economic Decisions

      • SS.4.6.9.2 Analyze how the kapu system maintained natural resources

        • Natural resources (3-H.2)

SS.4.7 Life in the Ahupua'a

• Geography

  • SS.4.7.14 Human-Environment Interaction: Place, Regions and Culture

    • Land Usage and Human Modification

      • SS.4.7.14.1 Use maps and illustrations to explain how Hawaiians used and modified land in the ahupua'a

        • Read a map: cardinal directions (4-F.1)
        • Identify lines of latitude and longitude (4-F.2)
        • Use lines of latitude and longitude (4-F.3)
        • Identify Earth's land features using photographs (4-G.1)
        • Identify Earth's land features using satellite images (4-G.2)
        • Identify oceans and continents (4-G.3)
        • Select oceans and continents (4-G.4)
        • Name oceans and continents (4-G.5)

• Economics

  • SS.4.7.10 Exchange and Markets

    • Specialization of Skills

      • SS.4.7.10.2 Analyze how specialization of labor and the exchange of goods and services created a successful interdependent society in the ahupua'a

        • Goods and services (3-H.3)
        • What is economics? (4-N.1)
        • Costs and benefits (4-N.2)
        • Opportunity cost (4-N.3)

SS.4.8 The Beginnings of the Hawaiian Kingdom through Unification

• Civics

  • SS.4.8.8 Processes, Rules, and Laws

    • Governance of the Ali'i

      • SS.4.8.8.1 Explain the roles and responsibilities of the ali'i in governing Hawaiian society

• History

  • SS.4.8.17 Change, Continuity, and Context

    • Rise of Kamehameha I

      • SS.4.8.17.2 Analyze major events that led to the unification of Hawai'i Island by Kamehameha I