Research Experiences for Teachers - Mililani Middle School
| Teacher's Name | Grades | Subjects |
| Jennifer Kuwahara | 8 | Exploratory Wheel |
| Kim Maunakea | 8 | Science |
| Christopher Justo | 7 | Science |
| Laurie Sogawa | 6 | Science |
| Lillian Monti | 8 | Math, Pre-Algebra |
| Jake Kardash | 7 | Science, Technology |
| Jacob Tamaye | 8 | Science, Tech ED |
| Daren Anzai | 7 | SPED |
| Crystal Cook | 7 | Language Arts |
| Robert Fujii | 6 | Science, Math |
| Carrie Hata | 6 | Science, Math |
| Kristen Kato | 6 | Science, Math |
| Jennifer Kim | 7 | Science |
| Janice McCague | 7 | Science |
| Kristi Miyamae | 7 | Math |
| Michael Nishiki | 7 | Science, Math |
| Michael Oyama | 7 | Science |
| Carlos Pai | 7 | Science |
| Sharilyn Pang | 7 | Language Arts |
| Paul Sasaki | 6 | Science, Math |
| Jennifer Takamori | 7 | Science |
| Faye Tom | 7 | Science |
| Robin Ware | 6 | Science, Math |
| Jennifer Winter | 6 | Science, Math |
| Kelvin Wong | 7 | Physical Education |
| Richard Yee | 7 | Science |
| Name of Activity | # of Students Involved | Grades | Subjects |
| Plankton Monitoring | 300 | 8 | Science, Social Studies, Wheel |
| Science Fair Projects | 150 | 8 | Science |
| Rock/Mineral Lab | 150 | 8 | Science |
| Pan-Stars | 20 | 8 | Science |
| Ahupua'a Project | 150 | 7 | Science |
| Re-starting Aquaponic Units | 35 | 7 | Science |
| Name of Activity | # of Students Involved | Grades | Subjects |
| Big Island Trip | 110 | 8 | Science |
| Big Island Video | 110 | 8 | Media |
| HIP Robotics | 24 | 6,7,8 | Robotics |
| Aquaponics | 25 | 7 | Science |
| Greenville Workdays | 150 | 7 | Science |
| Aquaponics | 10 | 7 | Science |
| Ethnobotany | 150 | 8 | Science |
| Project Noah | 150 | 8 | Science |
| Best of the Solar System Webquest | 150 | 8 | Science |
| Space Spin-offs | 150 | 8 | Science |
| Observing with Nasa From the Ground Up | 150 | 8 | Science |
| Children's Book | 150 | 7 | Language Arts |
| Research Paper | 150 | 7 | Language Arts |
| Research Project-IDU | 150 | 7 | Language Arts |
| MMS School Video | 18 | Multimedia | |
| MMS School Video | 18 | Multimedia | |
| Environmental Service Learning Fieldtrips | 150 | 8 | Science |
| Science Fair | 150 | 8 | Science |
| Robotics | 25 | 8 | Technology |
| Aquaponics | 150 | 7 | Science |
| MMS Greenhouse | 20 | 8 | Science |
| Name of Activity | # of Students Involved | Grades | Subjects |
| Stop Motion Animation | 25 | 6 | Technology |
| Aquaponics | 100 | 7 | Science |
| Geology of Oahu | 100 | 8 | Science |
| Electromagnetic Spectrum & Objects in Space | 300 | 8 | Science |
| Vex Robotics | 15 | 8 | Technology |
| Jr. Engineering Expo | 50 | 7/8 | Technology, Math |
| Environmental Service Learning Field Trips | 400 | 8 | Science |
| Planets in Our Solar System | 100 | 8 | Science |
| Tech Ed. | 26 | 6 | Technology |
| Name of Activity | # of Students Involved | Grades | Subjects |
| Waves & Wave Technologies | 100 | 8 | Science |
| Introduction to Robotics | 50 | 7/8 | Tech Ed |
| Name of Activity | # of Students Involved | Grades | Subjects |
| FabLab | 150 | 8 | Math |
| Service Learning Wheel | 72 | 6 | Science |
| Next Generation Assessments and 6.6.6 summative | 265 | 6 | Science |
| Challenger Center | 150 | 7 | Science |
| Chimera Project | 150 | 7 | Science |
| Aquaponics | 25 | 7 | Science |
| Aquaponics | 150 | 7 | Science |
| Ecosystem-Invasive Species | 150 | 7 | Science |
| Making Connections | 150 | 7 | Science |
Additional Activity Information 2012-13 School Year
Plankton Monitoring
Overview
Students collect and monitor plankton from various coastal areas around Oahu. We use digital microscopes to photograph the organisms.
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Science Fair Projects
Overview
Students use laptops to create graphs, and write lab reports.
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Rock/Mineral Lab
Overview
Students use microscope to observe rock features.
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Pann-Stars
Overview
Students are participating in a worldwide campaign to observe and analyze telescope images.
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Ahupua'a Project
Overview
Students research organisms in their ecosystems related to the parts of an ahupua'a.
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Re-starting Aquaponics Unit
Overview
Re-started aquaponic units using just crayfish and hybrid tilapia.
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Additional Activity Information 2011-12 School Year
Big Island Trip
Overview
Students collected seeds and removed mamane seeds from pods to help the national park service with their revegetation efforts. They took video footage and made a video using the laptops for a service learning showcase at windward mall on March 31, 2012.
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Big Island Video
Overview
Students Created Video diary of Big Island Trip.
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HIP Robotics
Overview
Students used the NXT program to program an autonomous robot to do various tasks for the FLL Robotics tournaments. Students also used laptops to do research on various subtopics of food such as the causes of food poisoning and mad cow disease.
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Aquaponics
Overview
- Kept aquaponic units indoors to ensure no vandalism.
- Fishes jumped out. Students looked at water environment, temperature, rate of flow for aeration, pH, and #of fish. Students determined 5 tilapia in each was a good # for each container.
- Students started growing taro. Did well indoors with florescent lights.
- Students tried growing green onions. Bulbs would get too soft and rot.
- Fishes started to die.
- Students kept trying other plants, strawberries, green onions, and tomato. Did not do so well.
- Put in different fish, Koi.
- Koi died.
- Students started growing mint using tilapia and guppies.
- Mint slowly dying. Students looking at other nutrients needed for plants.
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Greenville Workdays
Overview
Students used laptops to type research on workday topics (animals, hydroponics, aquaponics, plants-vegetable and decorative, composting-vermi, hot-cold, upcycling and recycling.)
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Aquaponics
Overview
Using the information from the RET workshop I attended with Dr. Tamaru about aquaponics helped provide some information and ideas from our aquaponics unit for our school’s Advanced Media Design class to create a larger aquaponic unit design and create a video on aquaponics that aired on PBS- Hiki No.
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Ethnobotany
Overview
Students will research important plants in their culture and experiment on their antimicrobial properties.
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Project Noah
Overview
Students will take photos of the living organisms in their community and upload to Project Noah
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Best of the Solar System Webquest
Overview
Student s will practice observation skills and their ability to communicate findings through this Webquest.
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Space Spin-Offs
Overview
Students will research Spin-Off projects and how they have impacted life in our society.
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Observing with Nasa From The Ground Up
Overview
Students use laptops to control OWN telescopes using MicroObservatory Robotic Telescope Network.
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Children’s Book
Overview
Students use the laptops to research about their assigned animal. They used this information to create their own Children’s book.
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Research Paper
Overview
Students researched about a topic and wrote an essay.
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Research Project -IDU
Overview
Students researched a current issue or problem facing contemporary Polynesia, Micronesia, or Melanesia. Students needed to come up with possible solutions.
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MMS School Video
Overview
Students wrote a script for a school video called “Welcome to Mililani Middle School”
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MMS School Video
Overview
Students finished their script and recorded it on the laptop.
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Environmental Service Learning Fieldtrips
Overview
Students collected data on water quality as well as marine debris while also participating in environmental stewardship projects at Ho'oulu'Aina.
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Science Fair
Overview
Students created science fair power point presentations. They took pictures and imported them into their projects, and documented findings using charts and graphs.
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Robotics
Overview
NXT program has been downloaded to the laptop for use with the High Interest Program(HIP) Robotics Group.
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Aquaponics
Overview
Students set up the aquaponics systems and began experimenting with green onions and lettuce.
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MMS Greenhouse
Overview
Club members are writing donation letters to various companies to help raise money to conduct our school greenhouse.
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Additional Activity Information 2010-11 School Year
Stop Motion Animation
Overview
The students created their own stop motion animation movie. The movie was supposed to be at least one minute long at a rate of 8 frames per second. Students brought their own digital camera and props/characters.
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Aquaponics
Overview
Students set up the aquaponics systems and began experimenting with green onions and lettuce.
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Geology of Oahu
Overview
Students took a field trip to the Waianae range with SOEST scientist Dr. Sinton to learn about the geology of Oahu. Bus transportation was provided by RET.
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Electromagnetic Spectrum & Objects in Space
Overview
Students researched and presented on components of the universe and how we understand them using telescopes and the electromagnetics spectrum. Funds for the spectral tubes were provided for by DonorsChoose.org.
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Vex Robotics
Overview
Students used the laptops and Google Sketchup to create a 3 dimensional drawing of their prototytpe robot for the Vex competition.
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Jr. Engineering Expo
Overview
Students competed in the annual Jr. Engineering Expo at UH. Pre-planned events include popsicle stick bridege, and catapult competition.
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Environmental Service Learning Fieldtrips
Overview
Students collected data on water and soil quality as well as marine debris while also participating in environmental stewardship projects at Ho'oulu'Aina and Mokauea Island.
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Planets in Our Solar System
Overview
Students researched and presented on planets in our solar system, investigating planetary features and the possibility of human travel to other planets.
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Tech Ed.
Overview
Students learned the basics of google SketchUp to create 3 dimensional drawings.
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Additional Activity Information 2009-2010 School Year
Waves & Wave Technologies
Overview
Ocean Floor and Unexploded Ordinances Mapping.
Introduction to Robotics
Overview
Basic robotics construction and programming.
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Additional Upcoming Activity Information 2012-13 School Year
FabLab
Overview
FabLab will be used to supplement the filling and wrapping unit in 8th grade math.
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Service Learning Wheel
Overview
Laptops were used to research on various topics related to the ecology such as microorganisms (composting).
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Next Generation Assessments and 6.6.6 Summative
Overview
Students used laptops to research on how an electromagnet works.
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Challenger Center
Overview
Used laptops for Challenger Center training.
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Chimera Project
Overview
Students used laptops to type out work for their Chimera Project, where students learn about cells and the make-up of organisms to create their own fictional organism.
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Aquaponics
Overview
- Students observing plants starting off okay, but then slowly withering.
- Students looking into what other nutrients are needed for plants to grow steadily.
- I’m speculating being inside is a big factor for the aquaponic units not being successful.
- Students want to re-start one of the aquaponic units.
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Aquaponics
Overview
After learning about the characteristics of a balanced ecosystem, we are going to focus our efforts on re-starting and maintaining our aquaponic units.
- Review research about aquaponics, taking care of fish, and nutrients for plants.
- My aquaponic group of 25 will re-start, monitor, and collect data on our aquaponic units.
- The building of our school’s greenhouse will provide a place later to house the aquaponic units outside. Hopefully it will be better outside.
- Students as part of their Scientific Inquiry benchmark will develop experiments on the topic of aquaponics.
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Ecosystems-Invasive Species
Overview
Students researched invasive species in Hawaii and their effects on Hawaii’s ecosystem.
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Making Connections
Overview
Students create reports on how what they learned in class with their benchmarks connected to what they did in their workdays with their Greenville topics.
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