Fire Adaptations
Discuss the adaptive strategies of plants and animals to survive fire. Observe plants and animals in your local area. Design a plant or animal that is adapted for fire survival. Students will be more aware of how plants and animals adapt to wildland fire.
Hot Questions
Do people think that the effects of fire are good or bad?
Your students can find the answers to these and other questions by making a fire questionnaire and asking friends, family, teachers and neighbors to participate in an opinion poll. Students will refine interviewing and researching skills.
Fire Feelings
Students will learn positive and negative effects of wildland fire and begin to form their own positions toward or opinions about fire ecology. Students will be able to explain some possible positive and negative effects of wildfires. Visit this website for more information on fire safety in your home.
Reporting the Blazes
Students will learn about sources of public information and how opinions are formed. Discuss reporting styles and identify words that may influence the readers'/viewers' opinions about forest fires.
Fire Field Trip
Students will learn why, how and when prescribed fires occur on tallgrass prairies. Witness a prescribed fire. Take photos and create a written documentation of the event.
Fire in My Backyard
Students will learn their awareness of fire in the wildland
urban interface and learn fire prevention measures.
Students should have an opportunity to learn strategies
to protect their home, family and the wildlands.
FIREWISE
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