Lesson Overview: Students consider their thoughts and feelings about wildland fire before and after a presentation about wildland fire. Then, using a reading activity, students read and analyze an article about the Storrie Fire of 2000 on the Plumas and Lassen National Forests.

Lesson Goal: Increase students’ understanding that wildland fire is a complicated process, has complicated effects, and may generate complicated feelings.

Objectives:

• Students can use images to make observations and inferences about wildland fire.
• Students can explain details about the Storrie Fire.