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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: In this activity, students design and conduct an experiment to investigate how slope and the density of trees (or other kinds of standing fuels) affect fire spread.
Lesson Goal: Increase students’ understanding of experimental methods and wildland fire spread.
Objectives:
- Students will design a controlled experiment to investigate relationships among slope, stand density, and fire spread.
- Students will write a hypothesis, conduct an experiment, summarize results, and draw conclusions.
- Students will compare their experiment and results to those of their classmates.
Online Link(s):
H08A: Matchstick Model - Lesson Plan (345 KB; pdf)
Fire Environment Triangle Poster (91 KB; pdf)
Fire Triangle Poster (23 KB; pdf)
Handout H08A-1 (89 KB; pdf)
Handout H08A-1: Answer Key (98 KB; pdf)
Matchstick slope video (11 MB; mp4)
Matchstick stand video (6 MB; mp4)
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Keywords:
- fire spread
- fire triangle
- slope
- stand density
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FRAMES Record Number: 24595