Last updated: March 5, 2020
Lesson Plan
Hulihia Kīlauea – a Complete Change
part 2, A field trip to Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park or other outdoor area
- Grade Level:
- Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
- Subject:
- Science,Social Studies
- Lesson Duration:
- 90 Minutes
- State Standards:
- Hawaiʻi HĀ:
Strengthened Sense of Belonging
Strengthened Sense of Total Well-Being
Strengthened Sense of Hawai‘i - Additional Standards:
- NGSS:
4-ESS1-1
4-ESS2-1
4-ESS2-2
4-ESS3-2 - Thinking Skills:
- Remembering: Recalling or recognizing information ideas, and principles. Understanding: Understand the main idea of material heard, viewed, or read. Interpret or summarize the ideas in own words. Applying: Apply an abstract idea in a concrete situation to solve a problem or relate it to a prior experience. Creating: Bring together parts (elements, compounds) of knowledge to form a whole and build relationships for NEW situations.
Essential Question
How did the Hulihia Kīlauea (Complete Change) eruption events of 2018 affect the lives of the people who live on the Island of Hawaiʻi?
Or, how does the geology of an area affect the lives of the people who live there?
Objective
This activity capitalizes on the physical features of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park and tasks students with work that calls upon their observational skills to document volcanic effects on the landscape. Students will also learn about cultural connections to history.
Preparation
Field Trip supplies and equipment
Individual student needs, including but not limited to covered-toe shoes, long pants, hat, filled water bottle, etc.
Volcanic Timeline Activity
Volcanic Effects Scavenger Hunt
In-field writing utensil
Particulate matter investigation supplies
Prepare students for 1.0 mile hike
Student copies of: Illustrated Hi‘iaka Phrases, Class Questions for a Ranger
Materials
Students search for pictured items on trail.
Download Volcanic Scavenger Hunt
A puzzle that encourages students to contemplate cause and effect in natural disasters.
Download Kīlauea Timeline Activity
Lesson Hook/Preview
Procedure
- Hi‘iaka Chant Act-Out (15 min) & Hula Movement Demonstration
Preparation: Bring students’ chant posters.
Procedure: Each group will interpret their illustrated line and act it out. As the teacher reads the chant, cue each group to interpret their line.
‘Ami ‘ōniu Movement
Hula is an important part of the Hawaiian culture. Without a written language, hula was the medium for transferring knowledge and stories within communities and between generations. To properly learn hula, one should study with a kumu (teacher), trained in traditional Hawaiian hula. This exercise is a way of learning an individual hula step that has been compared to the unique movement of the earth during the 2018 Kīlauea events.
Lū ‘ōniu is a phrase recently coined to describe the Kīlauea caldera collapse events in 2018. Lū, meaning to shake, or scatter or throw ashes about; and ‘ōniu, meaning the specific movement of the earth. In relation, the ‘Ami ‘ōniu movement in hula resembles the movement felt during the 2018 eruption earthquakes. The figure eight movement pattern with its rocking rotation emulates the rock and sway of the volcanic rumble.
Have students practice the following hula steps. Ask for comparisons between how the movements feel and what one may experience during an earthquake. Do different earthquakes feel different? Why might that be?
ʻAmi - a basic hip rotation with multiple variations.
ʻAmi ʻōniu - Rotate the hips in a figure eight pattern to perform this 'ami.
https://youtu.be/AQdOCfvOg_g?t=180
Procedure: Each group will interpret their illustrated line and act it out. As the teacher reads the chant, cue each group to interpret their line.
‘Ami ‘ōniu Movement
Hula is an important part of the Hawaiian culture. Without a written language, hula was the medium for transferring knowledge and stories within communities and between generations. To properly learn hula, one should study with a kumu (teacher), trained in traditional Hawaiian hula. This exercise is a way of learning an individual hula step that has been compared to the unique movement of the earth during the 2018 Kīlauea events.
Lū ‘ōniu is a phrase recently coined to describe the Kīlauea caldera collapse events in 2018. Lū, meaning to shake, or scatter or throw ashes about; and ‘ōniu, meaning the specific movement of the earth. In relation, the ‘Ami ‘ōniu movement in hula resembles the movement felt during the 2018 eruption earthquakes. The figure eight movement pattern with its rocking rotation emulates the rock and sway of the volcanic rumble.
Have students practice the following hula steps. Ask for comparisons between how the movements feel and what one may experience during an earthquake. Do different earthquakes feel different? Why might that be?
ʻAmi - a basic hip rotation with multiple variations.
ʻAmi ʻōniu - Rotate the hips in a figure eight pattern to perform this 'ami.
https://youtu.be/AQdOCfvOg_g?t=180
- Kīlauea Timeline Exercise (15 min) – see uploaded material
- Magma/Earthquake activity (15 min)
Objective: Demonstrate how underground magma movement causes earthquakes.
Read Aloud: We’ve now learned that magma is located inside volcanoes. Today we will experience how when magma begins to move, it affects everything around it. Do you remember what the cracks in volcanoes are called? Rift zones! Rift zones are cracks in the ground that magma will be likely to travel through because like water, magma seeks the path of least resistance. Today, you will help me demonstrate what magma does when it pushes through the ground.
Read Aloud: We’ve now learned that magma is located inside volcanoes. Today we will experience how when magma begins to move, it affects everything around it. Do you remember what the cracks in volcanoes are called? Rift zones! Rift zones are cracks in the ground that magma will be likely to travel through because like water, magma seeks the path of least resistance. Today, you will help me demonstrate what magma does when it pushes through the ground.
Procedure:
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Group children up in pairs, shoulder to shoulder. Form one straight line of pairs, all facing forward.
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Select 3-5 children to be flows of magma.
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Explain to group: This line is the earth. You and your buddy are earth buddies. When magma moves, it pushes apart the earth and causes earthquakes. A flow of magma will push through, and when that happens, you and your earth buddy will yell “earthquake!”
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Use examples of historic eruptions to describe differences in experiences:
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1790 very explosive phreatomagmatic (both magmatic gases and steam from groundwater are expelled)
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1840 lasted 26 days and produced estimated 205 to 265 million cubic meters lava
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1924 at Halemaʻumaʻu Crater, a fully formed pit crater
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1952 at Halemaʻumaʻu Crater, lasted 136 days
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1983 lava oozing out of Puʻu ʻŌʻō cone
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- Hike: Volcanic Effects Scavenger Hunt (45 min) – see uploaded material
Vocabulary
Related Lessons or Education Materials
This lesson connects to Hulihia Kīlauea part 1 and part 3.