Queen Lili’uokalani Lesson Plan: Time, Continuity, and Change

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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP topic Queen Lili’uokalani, and supports the standard of identifying and using key concepts such as chronology, causality, change, conflict, and complexity to explain, analyze, and show connections among patterns of historical change and continuity. Students demonstrate understanding through a variety of projects.

Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

Ask students:

• What kings or queens from history do you already know about? 
• What do you know about them? What do you think it was like for them to rule?

Step 2: BUILD KNOWLEDGE

• Read the description on the Queen Lili’uokalani topic page.
• Play the Movie, pausing to check for understanding.
  

Step 3: APPLY and ASSESS 

Assign Queen Lili’uokalani Challenge and Quiz, prompting students to apply essential literacy skills while demonstrating what they learned about this topic.

Step 4: DEEPEN and EXTEND

Students express what they learned about Queen Lili’uokalani while practicing essential literacy skills with one or more of the following activities. Differentiate by assigning ones that meet individual student needs.

• Make-a-Movie: Produce a mini-documentary that explains how Queen Lili’uokalani fought to maintain Hawaiian independence.
• Make-a-Map: Identify the timeline of events that led to the annexation of Hawaii. 
• Creative Coding: Code a digital museum exhibit featuring artifacts and figures to represent Queen Lili’uokalani’s impact on the Hawaiian people.

More to Explore 

Related BrainPOP Topics: Deepen understanding of events from Hawaii’s history with these topics: Native American Traditions, Alice Ball, and Pearl Harbor. 

Teacher Support Resources:

• Pause Point Overview: Video tutorial showing how Pause Points actively engage students to stop, think, and express ideas. 
• Learning Activities Modifications: Strategies to meet ELL and other instructional and student needs.
• Learning Activities Support: Resources for best practices using BrainPOP.