Lesson Overview: In this activity, students learn about the behavior, weather, and other aspects of a real wildland fire- the Storrie Fire of 2000 on the Plumas and Lassen National Forests. They create a podcast about the fire, which describes potential effects of different weather, and potential effects of global climate change.

Lesson Goal: Students will be able to communicate the effects of changes in the weather on fire spread and interpret data on possible relationships between global climate change and wildland fires.

Objectives: Students can use information on the history of the Storrie Fire, weather conditions, fire behavior modeling, and global climate change to create a podcast that

• catches the audience’s attention with a human-interest angle,
• describes relationships between fire weather and fire spread on a certain date,
• speculate s on how things might have been different based on model results for different weather conditions, and
• discusses the possible influence of global climate change on wildland fires.