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Course
Type: FireWorks activities
Availability: Public access
Date Created: August 10, 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 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.
Online Link(s):
H01: Wildland Fire Observations (15.3 MB; ppt)
Handout H01-1 (68 KB; pdf)
Handout H01-2 (87 KB; pdf)
Handout H01-2: AnswerKey (71 KB; pdf)
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Keywords:
- ecosystem dynamics
- Lassen National Forest
- Plumas National Forest
- Sierra Nevada
- Storrie Fire
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FRAMES Record Number: 24584