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Course
Type: FireWorks activities
Availability: Public access
Date Created: June 28, 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 will create a human model demonstrating how fire scars are formed on a tree trunk. Then they will examine a cross section from a fire-scarred tree that is provided in the trunk and describe its fire history.
Lesson Goal: To increase students’ understanding of how trees can survive fires, how fire scars are formed, and how some trees have survived frequent fires.
Objectives:
- Students can calculate the years between fires from a sample.
- Students can find the longest, shortest, and average intervals between fires.
- Students can write a report that summarizes the fire history of the tree.
Online Link(s):
E13-2: Story Of A Fire Scarred Tree (1 MB; pdf)
E13_2: Fire Scars (31.9 MB; ppt)
Handout E13-2-01: A Tree's Story (173 KB; pdf)
Handout E13-2-01: Answer Key (188 KB; pdf)
Handout E13: Answer Key - All Trees (1.52 MB; pdf)
Lifesize Fire Scar (7.15 MB; ppt)
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- catface
- fire scar
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FRAMES Record Number: 24532