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Course
Type: FireWorks activities
Availability: Public access
Date Created: July 16, 2018
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: Each student selects a plant, animal, or fungus to study. He/she writes a research paper on this species and shares the results with the class in a multimedia presentation . During presentations, classmates take notes to be used later for an open-note book quiz.
Lesson Goals:
- Increase students’ understanding of how species living in the northern Rocky Mountains and North Cascades survive and even thrive in an environment that includes wildland fire.
- Increase students’ understanding that species may be adapted to specific fire regimes.
Objectives:
- Students will become well informed on the fire ecology of one species in the northern Rockies and North Cascades, as demonstrated by a research paper and presentation.
- Students can describe adaptations to fire for several species and predict the potential consequences of fire exclusion for these species.
Online Link(s):
H14: Researching An Organism - Lesson Plan (356 KB; pdf)
Handout H14-1 (81 KB; pdf)
Handout H14-2 (98 KB; pdf)
Handout H14-2 - Answer Key (158 KB; pdf)
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Keywords:
- animals
- fire adaptations
- fire regimes
- fungus
- plants
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FRAMES Record Number: 56189