Resource Catalog
Course
Type: FireWorks activities
Availability: Public access
Date Created: August 11, 2017
Ongoing
Author(s):
- FireWorks Educational Program
Contact(s):
- Ilana L. AbrahamsonUS Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program
Lesson Overview: Students explore the properties of wildland fuels through reading, a fuel scavenger hunt, and by designing and conducting experiments with fuels.
Lesson Goal: Increase students’ understanding of how fuel properties affect burning.
Objectives:
- Students can design experiments that test how fuels with contrasting properties burn.
- Students can apply observations from experiments to explain how wildland fuels with various properties burn.
Online Link(s):
H05: Fuel Properties - Lesson Plan (184 KB; pdf)
Handout H05-1 (83 KB; pdf)
Handout H05-2 (79 KB; pdf)
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Keywords:
- fuel loading
- fuel moisture
- fuel properties
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FRAMES Record Number: 24591