Hawaii standards alignment

• HS-ESS3-1

  Partially covered

  Construct an explanation based on evidence for how the availability of natural resources, occurrence of natural hazards, and changes in climate have influenced human activity.

  Covered by

  • Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • Kava — The Root of Peace

  • · Ep 1 · Climate Change Is Redrawing the Map
  • · Ep 3 · A Two-Degree Threat
  • · Ep 6 · Why Volcanic Soil Only
  • · Ep 10 · Karst Limestone and Bourbon
  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option B, assess a producing country's climate viability and defend the assessment

  What we do and don't cover: Read this one carefully before you rely on it. This is NOT a science course, it has no laboratory work, no investigations and no scientific modelling. What it does have is precisely the content of HS-ESS3-1: resource availability and climate change shaping what humans do and where. The lessons supply the evidence; the STUDENT constructs the explanation only in the Coffee project (Option B). If your science requirement is assessed on the three-dimensional NGSS performance, this contributes to it, it does not discharge it.

What we don't claim

A standards page is only worth reading if the omissions are honest too. We looked at these and left them out:

• The Hawaii Civics flagship's structure lessons have no Hawaii code to cite. Hawaii Civics: How Your State Government Works teaches Hawaii's genuinely distinctive structure — the most centralized state government in the nation (four counties and essentially no city or town governments below them; the ONLY state with a single, statewide public-school system), the Constitution of 1959, a compact elected executive (only the Governor and Lieutenant Governor), a Legislature of 25 senators and 51 representatives, a judiciary where the Judicial Selection Commission (not the voters) decides retention, the elected-trustee Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and Hawaiian as an official second language — from Hawaii's own official sources. But the HCSSS Participation in a Democracy standards are federal/general: they carry NO standard for a state's own government structure. Only the civic-engagement standard (SS.PID.5.7.1) reaches Hawaii's own participation, so the flagship's structure lessons carry no claim while its civic ACTIONS do. The gap is in the standards, not the course.
• English/Language Arts — deferred (Hawaii adopted the Common Core, then revised its ELA in 2024). Hawaii adopted the Common Core State Standards for ELA on June 7, 2010, so the shared common-core-ela file would in principle apply. But the Board of Education took committee action on a "Revised Hawaii Common Core Standards for ELA" in April 2024, so Hawaii's current grade 11-12 RH/RI/WHST wording may no longer be verbatim CCSS — exactly the situation that made us transcribe Iowa's and Mississippi's revised ELA rather than alias. We did not fetch and verify Hawaii's current ELA document this pass, and the rule is compare-before-aliasing, so we DEFER the ELA framework rather than blind-alias it. The catalog's source-evaluation and media-literacy work is instead claimed against Hawaii's own social-studies inquiry standards (SS.9-12.2.1, .2.2, .3.1), which we transcribed verbatim.
• Mathematics — nothing. This catalog does no mathematics instruction, so it meets no Hawaii Common Core mathematics standard.
• Science — one partial claim, via the shared NGSS file. Hawaii adopted the NGSS (February 16, 2016), so our one honest science claim — HS-ESS3-1, partial — comes through the shared NGSS mapping with the limit stated on the entry. There is no laboratory work, investigation, or modelling in this catalog, and we will not claim more.
• The federal-heavy Participation in a Democracy standards we checked and rejected. SS.PID.1.17.1 (classical, natural-rights, and English-common-law philosophy behind the Constitution), SS.PID.1.11.3 (the Hamilton vs. Jefferson debate on federal strength), SS.PID.4.7.1 (policy makers, interest groups, and the media in shaping public policy — our media literacy is consumer protection, not political-media analysis), SS.PID.4.10.2 (the economic functions of government and its social services), and SS.PID.4.16.3 (the global role of the United States, geopolitics, and international economics) — the courses do not genuinely teach these, so we do not claim them. The inquiry Anchor 1 (developing compelling and supporting questions) and Anchor 4 (communicating conclusions to a range of audiences) are teaching moves rather than course content here, and are not claimed.
• Hawaii's other high-school social-studies courses — deferred, not denied. The HCSSS also define World History and Culture (CE 1500 to Present), United States History and Government, and Modern History of Hawaiʻi at grades 9-12. The catalog's commodity, colonial, labor, civil-rights, and migration history WOULD map to several of those courses' standards, as it does in other states. We mapped the Participation in a Democracy course this pass (the flagship's home) and DEFER the World History, U.S. History and Government, and Modern History of Hawaiʻi courses to a later pass rather than claim standards we have not yet transcribed and verified.