Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park Virtual Field Trip Lesson | Google Slides + Quiz

Take students into Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park with a completed 6-stop WanderListen virtual field trip that turns active volcanism, lava tubes, volcanic gases, eruption recovery, coastline erosion, and Native Hawaiian cultural landscapes into a place-based classroom lesson.

This is not a simple Google Slides virtual tour. Students open a WanderListen app-style virtual field trip with narrated audio, map-based exploration, stop images, an instructional image gallery, and classroom-ready response activities.

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What students practice

• Earth science and geology: how shield volcanoes, calderas, lava flows, lava tubes, steam vents, sulfur deposits, cinder cones, and sea arches form.
• Cause and effect: how eruptions, collapse events, lava fountains, cinder fall, waves, and erosion change landscapes over time.
• Observation and evidence: how students use map views, image-gallery evidence, and narration details to identify volcanic features and explain landscape change.
• Environmental change: how forests, ferns, ʻōhiʻa, and other plants return to disturbed lava and cinder landscapes after eruption.
• Cultural landscape thinking: how Puʻuloa Petroglyphs and Pelehonuamea traditions help students understand that Hawaiʻi Volcanoes is not only a geology site.

What's included

• Completed WanderListen Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park Virtual Field Trip access through the shared Google folder
• Teacher Guide with pacing options, differentiation notes, print/digital setup, standards support, discussion prompts, and full answer key
• Student Worksheet for the 6 tour stops with one Stop Observation Question per stop
• End of Tour questions for geology, change over time, cultural landscape, observation evidence, and student reflection
• Vocabulary section with key terms from the tour, including transcript-based context
• Self-grading Google Forms multiple choice quiz
• Printable MC Quiz version
• Google Slides/PPTX worksheet and print worksheet versions
• Instructional image gallery that supports eruption history, lava-tube formation, coastline erosion, and Puʻuloa Petroglyphs
• 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, complete the tour, answer one question per stop, and finish with a short wrap-up or quiz.
• 60-75 minute guided lesson: add vocabulary, image-gallery discussion, stop questions, and teacher-led review.
• 90 minute two-class option: tour and stop questions first, then End of Tour questions, quiz, and discussion.

Best fit: Grades 6-8 and 9-12 earth science, geology, environmental science, geography, national parks, and Hawaiʻi regional enrichment.

Teacher note: This is a digital classroom resource built around a WanderListen virtual field trip experience. Google Slides, Google Forms, PDFs, PPTX, and DOCX files are included as classroom supports, but the core student experience is the audio + map tour.