Maui High School

TNC6010 NATURAL RESOURCE PATHWAY CORE

Grades 09

1 credit each year

This course is designed for students who plan to pursue careers in the Natural Resources Career Pathway. Students will be introduced to basic concepts of agriculture, earth sciences, environmental sciences, fisheries and forestry. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the following concepts will be covered: 1) Scientific processes and systems, 2) technology and biotechnology, 3) Natural resources management, 4) Environmental protection, and 5) Legal responsibility and ethics. This course is a recommended prerequisite for students pursuing natural resources programs of study.

 

TNU6239 HORTICULTURE 1

Grades 10-12 [Year 1 following core]

1 credit each year

This course follows: Natural Resource Core

This course is designed to impart skill development and technical information about ornamental horticulture. Basic instruction in scientific inquiry will serve as a knowledge base to effectively teach agricultural values and attitudes (Habit of Mind) in the classroom, laboratory, on campus and in the field. Areas of study include plant identification, plant propagation, and safety and pest control. Learning safety rules and procedures will be implemented in appropriate cultural technologies, such as integrated pest management and Malama I ka `Aina (Sustainability) of agricultural practice.

 

TNN6242 HORTICULTURE 2

Grades 11-12 [Year 2 following core]

1 credit each year

This course follows: Horticulture 1

This course takes scientific inquiry, reasoning, values and attitudes to the standard of relating the nature of technology to science and career pathways in agriculture. The focus is on general activities with emphasis in landscaping, turf management, and the processing and distribution of horticultural products. This focus addresses the processes and challenges needed to change the world to suit individual and community environments better. The learning environment includes extensions of the classroom through work-based sites in sustainable agricultural practices. The process taught and learned uses tools, thinking skills, and accumulated knowledge from science in the context of society.

 

TBU6120 BIOAGRISCIENCE

Grades 10-12

1 credit each year

This course follows: none

The Bio Agriscience course is designed to give students an understanding of matter, energy and their information. Application of physical science under both laboratory and real life conditions will be explored to show the relationship of matter and energy and how they link one organism to another within their physical environment. The skills necessary for dealing with the physical agricultural environment will be taught in the classroom and extended to laboratory and agriculture fieldwork assignments.

 

Natural Resource Capstone for all Natural Resource Areas

TNK6690 PUBLIC AND HUMAN SERVICES CAREER PATHWAY CAPSTONE

Grade 12

1 credit each year

This course follows: Natural Resource Pathway requirements, please see your instructor for enrollment information.

A Capstone Project reflects the culmination of knowledge, skills, and attitude by senior students in the Natural Resource Career Pathway. This senior project provides a venue for seniors to plan and execute individualized study on a topic of particular interest to them. Participants will have their independent study and research periodically assessed by the instructor. Students are to enlist the guidance of an adult mentor from the school or community. The following products are required from the senior participating in a Capstone Project: 1) a research paper to demonstrate information and knowledge acquisition skills, 2) a formal oral report before a panel of industry experts, and 3) a portfolio that relates the “learning journey” and verifies the learning process. The topics of interest will be student-driven and the choice of media for presentation will be at the discretion of the student presenter.