The story of “The Little Crooked House” introduces the reader to traditional house building while raising questions about the embedded mathematics, questions that are explored in a series of lesson plans available through Pacific Resources for Education and Learning. This book is one product of MACIMISE, a collaborative research and development project led by PREL and the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Founded on ethnomathematics research, the project has increased the mathematics learning of first-, fourth-, and seventh-grade elementary school students in ten Pacific Island states and territories. iREi has joined this effort by illustrating and publishing this book based on one of MACIMISE’s field-tested curriculum units. Topics such as measurement, division of whole numbers and fractions, and elements of geometry are embedded within a local story about a group of Chuukese children embarking on an adventure to build a local house. View Book.

The Pacific islands Climate Education Partnership (PCEP) is a network of Pacific communities and organizations working together to support place-based education about climate change and its impacts. PCEP primarily serves the U.S.-affiliated Pacific, including Hawai‘i, American Sāmoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), and the Republic of Palau. The impacts of a changing climate are affecting the natural environments and the people of the Pacific region. PCEP partners work collaboratively to empower students and communities to address such impacts through education, drawing on local place-based knowledge and modern science of the natural world. Through these efforts, Pacific island students and communities continue to deepen their understandings of climate change and how to adapt to its impacts for the well-being of all.

Books created by iREi and partners within the PCEP framework aim to enhance resilience and ability to adapt to climate change by educating children at elementary school level about fundamental and highly relevant scientific and environmental concepts using a strict place-based approach. The entire content of our books is based on local issues and local examples, all of which derive from what Pacific Island students can directly observe in their surroundings.

Products created from this parntership are: Our High Island Home, Our Low Island Home, Pacific High Island Environments, Pacific Low Island Environments, Mangroves: Living On The Edge In A Changing Climate, Adaptations—Finding a Fit in the Changing World, Our Island Home E-books, Pacific Island Environments E-books, Our Island Home Handout Series. View Collection.

Written by Dr. Danko Taborosi and Dr. Ethan Allen, this essential volume is bursting with information for students,educators, and anyone interested in knowing more about water.

• Learn about the water above, around, beneath, and within us!

• Discover how to better protect the water resources of the Pacific islands!

• Explore water’s fascinating properties through simple experiments!

• Find practical ways to capture, conserve, and improve the qualityof your drinking water!

The handbook is organized into color-coded chapters that follow the pathways water takes as it cycles through its reservoirs in nature: biosphere, atmosphere, surface waters, groundwater, ocean, and the cryosphere. View Collection.

• comprehensive geospatial database for download
• hundreds of maps, copyright-free for fair use
• open access at http://south.hydroguam.net

The suite of products accessible through www.hydroguam.net portal was developed by iREi in close collaboration with, on behalf of, and/or with funding from the Water and Environmental Research Institute of the Western Pacific (WERI).

• rich collection of GIS, GeoTIFF, KML files for download
• hundreds of pre-formatted maps, copyright-free for fair use
• open access at http://north.hydroguam.net

The suite of products accessible through www.hydroguam.net portal was developed by iREi in close collaboration with, on behalf of, and/orwith funding from the Water and EnvironmentalResearch Institute of the Western Pacific (WERI).

The goal of these books is to set young Micronesians on a journey of discovery through the environmental diversity contained within their home islands. The books are intended primarily as supplementary resources to support bilingual and environmental education in elementary school grades throughout the four FSM states. They not only help young people understand the rich diversity of their islands, but also emphasize that this diversity coexists within a single island—there are many different habitats and what happens in one affects the others. In addition, thanks to bilingual and island-specific content, young Micronesian readers can practice valuable reading skills in their native language and English. What they’re reading will add to their knowledge and appreciation of the world outside their doors and deepen their understanding of the environment, its complexity, and the threats it faces. View Collection.

iREi and the FSM National Department of Education are proud to announce the completion of the first-ever comprehensive atlas of the FSM. After decades of learning predominantly about places, environments, and climate of faraway parts of the world, the students in the FSM finally have a geographic textbook to call their own. Its ten chapters are subdivided into sections that introduce important scientific concepts in locally relevant ways and include subjects such as the origin of the islands, weather and climate, the diversity of land and marine environments, plant and animal life, fresh water and other natural resources, languages and cultural heritage, daily life on the islands from the earliest times to today, the FSM’s political and social organization, transportation and other infrastructure, and pressing issues of climate change, natural disasters, environmental degradation, and sustainability. The atlas incorporates over 100 original maps that accompany state-by-state portrayals of the nation’s islands (including a comprehensive coverage of the outer islands) and describe
their key physical and environmental aspects and manmade features. The maps were custom-created for students with no previous map experience, yet are authoritative and appropriate for general use. Over 1,000 illustrations in the atlas include informative diagrams, riveting historical pictures, high-quality color photographs and aerial images, and dazzling satellite views that present new perspectives of the islands and reveal intriguing geographical details. Though focused on the needs of students in grades seven through nine and created in response to the National Curriculum Standards and Benchmarks, this atlas is also a general reference that can be read and appreciated by the public and anyone interested in learning about the geography, environment, and people of the FSM. View Book.

In the summer of 2005, our partner BessPress, Inc., BessPress, Inc., who has a similar island and educational focus, contacted us with an idea to develop a geography textbook especially for the students on Guam. Our director Danko Taborosi was immediately interested in the proposal and, together with our cartographer David Vann, set out to write the text. Read more...

Envisioned as a unique combination of a wall-map and a flip-book, the CNMI map and factbook will become an important geographic reference to anyone living in or interested in the CNMI. When folded, the booklet allows easy browsing of sections dedicated to individual CNMI islands. Providing information on the main islands of Saipan, Tinian, Rota, and all the other islands in the chain, the factbook gives a comprehensive picture of the CNMI. Sections about each island contain basic geographic, environmental, cultural, and historical facts, and are illustrated by an up-to-date full-color map and aerial photograph. When unfolded and flipped, the booklet becomes a full-color shaded-relief wall map of the Mariana Islands. iREi is currently in search for funding to produce this resource.