Our Cultural Awareness Series 1: Hawaii is a unit of 3 lessons for middle school students, relating typical themes and stories of Hawaiian culture/heritage to issues of cyber safety and responsibility.

• Hawaii Cultural 1 – Our Cultural Awareness and Cyber Safety Issues of Respect – Ho'ihi
• Hawaii Cultural 2 – Our Cultural Awareness and Cyber Safety Worlds of Friendship
• Hawaii Cultural 3 – Our Cultural Awareness and Cyber Safety Making Connections

Each lesson integrates Hawaiian words, phrases, stories, cultural activities, specially written songs, and a youth empowering enrichment activity to connect safety and behavioral concepts of the physical world to understanding of meaningful Internet usage.

Our Cultural Awareness Series 1: Hawaii unit of instruction can be accessed through HDOE educators' My Info page after login.

• further develop understanding of respectful Internet usage through culturally-based stories and activities
• understand how to be a responsible cyber citizen by learning basic tenets of usage
• cultivate understanding of Hawaiian culture and language through stories and songs
• identify and apply the themes of respect to Internet usage as well as to heritage and culture
• understand how to conduct safe online friendships
• demonstrate understanding of each theme through development of a project following guidelines and incorporating concepts taught