These exhibits are supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Hawai'i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and Hawai'i Community Foundation.

Line, Shape, Pattern is a visual arts unit that explores the elements of line, shape, and pattern. This unit focuses on Grade 1, performance indicator 1 - The student uses elements, materials, and technology of the arts to create simple movements, stories, musical phrases, and visual arts.

Line - Visual Arts - Grade 1
In this lesson on line, students use oil pastels to explore drawing lines - straight, curved, spiral, zig zag, thick, thin, long, short, dark, and light. Later, they use lines and color to interpret emotions and feelings.

Shape - Visual Arts - Grade 1
A shape is created when a line travels and meets itself. Students have an opportunity to hone their fine motor skills as they outline geometric shapes. Linking to math, they create a set with different shapes, and repeat the set to create a pattern.

Pattern - Visual Arts - Grade 1
Students practice and scaffold skills learned in the first two lessons on line, shape, and pattern. They use these elements to create the culminating artwork.

Goodbye Surprise Island uses drama to help students develop an understanding of how good writers construct a story.

Goodbye Surprise Island - Drama - Grade 2
Students use tableau and pantomime to bring parts of a story alive.

Turtles is part of a unit of study on the ocean. Students have been studying different animals that are found in this environment and focus on turtles for this integrated dance lesson.

Turtles - Dance - Grade 2
Students explore shapes and pathways to create a short dance

Planet J is an interdisciplinary project that leads students through all art forms with the central theme of space exploration and scientific discovery.

Planet J - Visual Arts - Grade 3
In this lesson, students work in groups to create large-scale paintings interpreting science vocabulary.

Planet J - Music - Grade 3
Groups of students use instruments and their voices to create short music compositions to interpret a specific scientific concept, such as temperature, gravity, or rotation.

Planet J - Dance - Grade 3
Students create a dance composition to interpret a scientific concept, such as temperature, gravity, or rotation.

Volcanoes use drama, dance, and music to lead students in the exploration of this natural phenomenon. Connections are made to social studies, creative writing, and science.

Volcanoes - Drama - Grade 3
In this lesson, tableau is used to explore the legend of Pele and Namaka.

Volcanoes - Dance - Grade 3
Words inspire students to create the Fire Dance.

Volcanoes - Dance/Music - Grade 3
Students investigate the hot spot theory and island formation through music and dance.

Ahupua'a allows students to use drama to explore the different roles of ancient Hawaiians and how they are interdependent in their land system. The ahupuaĠa is the land division from the mountains to the ocean. Groups of people, within the ahupua'a, had different roles and responsibilities.

Ahuapua'a - Pantomime - Grade 4
In this first lesson, students create short scenes in pantomime to depict the work of the people.

Ahupua'a - Dialogue - Grade 4
Students continue to collaborate in their groups and the element of dialogue is introduced to their scenes.

Ahupua'a - Problem - Grade 4
Students revise the scenes created in lesson one and two. A problem is introduced that students must respond to authentically. Narration is also layered onto the scenes. Students must listen to certain passages in the narration that cue them to transition to different tableaux in their scenes.

Line to Shape to Form encourages students to explore concepts of geometry through visual arts. Students begin by viewing exemplars to see how artists use Elements of Art to organize their ideas. The responding process begins with students describing, then analyzing, and finally reaching a personal evaluation of the artwork.

Line - Visual Arts - Grade 4
This lesson guides students to explore the use of line, with the emphasis on parallel, intersecting, and perpendicular lines, to create a mixed media artwork. Students also learn the difference between abstract and realistic art.

Shape - Visual Arts - Grade 4
Students view and discuss artwork created by M.C. Escher before drawing shapes with the implied third dimension of depth.

Form - Visual Arts - Grade 4
Students look at and discuss sculptures created by various artists. In the lesson, students create three-dimensional forms by applying their understanding of geometric form and measurement.

Musical Poetry teaches students the music elements of beat, meter, and form. Students use these elements to modify and revise poems. This unit allows many opportunities for group collaboration and sharing.

Musical Poetry - Basic Elements - Grade 4
In this lesson, students learn about beat, meter, and form. As a group, they learn how they can revise a poem with form and rhythmic pattern.

Musical Poetry - Composing - Grade 4
Students experience revising the form of songs to their own personal tastes by modifying and practicing different melodic rhythms, rhythmic patterns, and melody patterns.

Musical Poetry - Word Painting - Grade 4
This lesson focuses on adding expressive qualities to the poems. Students use a type of notation called word painting.