Cultural Center statues decorate the landscape. Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff

Cultural Center covering outbuilding allows attendees to see how taro root is pounded.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff

Nome teacher and Students prepare for weather at the Ka'ala Farm.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

Ka'ala Farm employee share the finer points of the farm with Nome students.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff

Nome Teachers and Students walk out to the taro root fields.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff

Nome Students listen to Ka'ala Farm employees in a presentation about the taro root.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff

The Culture Center people demonstrate how taro root can be pounded into paper thin fabric.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

A Nome student carries weeds from the taro root fields at the Ka'ala Farm.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

Students help weed the taro root fields at the Ka'ala Farm.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

Nome Students learn about sea turtles at the Laniakea turtle beach.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

Nome Students help clear the waterway under a bridge at the Mokolo Fish Ponds.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

Nome Students help clear the waterway under a bridge at the Mokolo Fish Ponds.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

Nanakuli Middle School and Nome School students hold and pet a duck on the farm.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

Nanakuli Middle School take a break from the farm tour.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

Nanakuli Middle School middle school teacher and HI and AK students dig for potatoes.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

Cultural Center bridge walkway over a slow moving stream.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

Jay Thomas and Nome students get a tour of a coffee plantation and roaster.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

Nanakuli Middle School students join Alaska students for a tour of a farm.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

Hawai'i Teachers gather on the giant chair at Camp Palehua.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

Teachers meet with staff and Aiea Body & Brain staff for a workshop.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

Aiea Body & Brain lead a session with the teachers.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

Teachers and Staff pose in front of Camp Palehua outbuildings.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

Nome Teachers on the beach and learning about healing practices.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

Nome Teachers learn about estuaries and fish hatcheries.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

Reid Yokote shares a traditional dance with the Nome teachers.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

Teachers and Staff pose in front of the Tsunami Rock.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

Near the Tsunami Rock, teachers learn about earthquakes and tsunamis.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

Nome Teachers tour a lookout to view the land and seascape where a major tsunami occurred.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

Nome Teachers learn about earthquakes.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

Teachers on the bus to go to the Anchorage Kincaid Park.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

Nome Teachers learn about earthquakes.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

Nome Teachers learn about earthquakes.  Photo: K-12 Outreach Staff.

Fred Reppun guided attendees through the He'eia National Estuary Research Reserve System, including a tour through the Coral Reef Ecology Lab where technician (pictured) Taylor Engle demonstrated how coral are rapidly grown in a lab.  Photo: Zoom screen capture.

Kanaloa Bishop led a virtual tour of Paepae o He’eia, which is a private non-profit organization dedicated to caring for He’eia Fishpond – an ancient Hawaiian fishpond located in He’eia, Ko’olaupoko, O’ahu. Pictured on the left is co-founder Keli’i Kotubetey, Assistant Executive Director of Paepae o He'eia. Photo: Zoom screen capture.

Mark Heckman provided more information about the Coral Reef Ecology Lab and their efforts.  Pictured is some of the healthy reefs they've been cultivating.  Photo: Zoom screen capture.

Rick Thoman answered teachers' questions at the virtual workshop. Photo: Zoom screen capture.

Kapono Ciotti led participating teachers in curriculum tips for the drone workshop. Photo: Zoom screen capture.

Kapono Ciotti, originally from Hawai'i,  is an international trainer and professional development coach, teacher, and a culture and place-based curriculum writer, focusing on culturally appropriate pedagogy. He is currently based in Cairo, Egypt. Photo: Zoom screen capture.

TASK Hawai’i teachers gather for a virtual drone workshop to collaborate with their Nome partners and share aerial views of landscapes, vegetation patterns and habitats. Photo: Nānākuli-Wai’anae Complex Area teachers. Photo: Zoom screen capture.

Hawai’i teachers operate a drone during their virtual workshop. Photo: Nānākuli-Wai’anae Complex Area teachers. Photo: Zoom screen capture.

Teachers operating the drone fly it about to attempt to provide more visuals of their area for their Nome partners. Photo: Zoom screen capture.

Everyone poses on a pullout after visiting Whittier. Photo: Keiko Herrick.

The visiting teachers & staff had an opportunity to check out Potter's Marsh. Photo: Keiko Herrick.

Reid Yokote and Nick "Eskimo Ninja" Hanson compete in the traditional ear pull contest. Photo: Putt Clark.

Teachers collaborate on a mapping project in Nome. Photo: Putt Clark.

Muskoxen lay about on the hillside of Anvil Mountain. Photo: Putt Clark.

The White Alice Towers sit sentinel, and derelict, on Anvil Mountain. Photo: Putt Clark.

TASK teachers & Staff pose together on the top of Anvil Mountain, behind Nome. Photo: Putt Clark.

University of Hawai'i in Kapolei, West Oahu. K-12 Outreach will be working closely with staff at U of H.  Photo: Sam Norlin.

This Banyan tree is a relatively young tree. Older, larger ones spread their root system making their "trunk" appear massive in circumference.  Photo: Putt Clark

Tropical fish swim lazily in the warm water of a Honolulu harbor. Photo: Putt Clark. 

K-12 Outreach staff, Hawai'i counterparts met in February to plan and organize. Photo: Sam Norlin.