Everglades National Park Virtual Field Trip App Lesson | Audio + Map + Quiz

Take students into Everglades National Park with a completed 7-stop WanderListen virtual field trip that follows water from Taylor Slough and Shark River Slough through marl prairie, hardwood hammocks, brackish mangrove habitat, Florida Bay, and the Ten Thousand Islands. The lesson turns slow sheet flow, wet and dry seasons, food webs, fire, salinity, Indigenous homelands, hurricanes, and restoration decisions into a place-based grades 6-12 classroom experience.

This is not a simple Google Slides virtual tour. Students open a WanderListen app-style virtual field trip with about 23 minutes of narrated audio, exact map-based exploration, a 17-image gallery, and classroom-ready response activities.

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What students practice

• Wetland hydrology and Earth systems: how shallow sheet flow, sloughs, hydroperiod, rainfall, canals, roads, salinity, and seasonal water levels connect inland marshes with Florida Bay.
• Ecosystems and food webs: how alligator holes, periphyton, marl prairie, hardwood hammocks, mangrove roots, seagrass meadows, and nursery habitat support different communities.
• Environmental change and resilience: how prescribed fire, drought, hypersalinity, hurricanes, storm surge, invasive species, and sea-level pressure alter habitats.
• Human geography and public-land decisions: how the Tamiami Trail, canals, flood-control systems, water supply, national-park protection, and restoration projects create benefits and tradeoffs.
• Indigenous and cultural landscapes: how Miccosukee homeland and co-stewardship, Calusa shell works and canals, and continuing relationships with water complicate the idea of an untouched wilderness.
• Evidence-based thinking: students interpret maps and gallery images, explain cause and effect, compare habitats, and support restoration claims with tour details.

What's included

• Completed WanderListen Everglades National Park Virtual Field Trip access through the shared Google folder
• 7 narrated stops with map exploration and a 17-image support gallery
• Teacher Guide with pacing options, differentiation notes, standards support, discussion prompts, and robust answer keys
• Student Worksheet with 8 Stop Observation Questions, including a Florida Bay seagrass die-off map study
• 5 End of Tour synthesis questions on hydrology, ecosystem change, habitat transitions, restoration priorities, and human history
• 10 transcript-matched vocabulary terms
• 10-question self-grading Google Forms quiz and printable multiple choice quiz
• Google Slides/PPTX worksheet, Google Docs/DOCX, PDF, and print-friendly classroom versions
• Start Here PDF that helps teachers make their own Google Drive copies and unlock the tour

Flexible pacing

• 45-50-minute quick implementation: brief setup, full 7-stop tour, one response per stop, and a short quiz or wrap-up.
• 60-75-minute guided lesson: add vocabulary, gallery study, map interpretation, and class discussion.
• 90-minute two-class option: complete the tour first, then use the End of Tour questions, restoration debate, and assessment.

Best fit: Grades 6-8 and 9-12 life science, Earth and space science, environmental science, geography, Florida studies, water resources, climate resilience, conservation, national parks, and social studies enrichment.

Teacher note: This is a digital classroom resource built around a WanderListen virtual field trip experience. It is not a movie guide, a YouTube clip lesson, or a slide-only virtual tour.