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Type: FireWorks activities
Availability: Public access
Date Created: June 28, 2017
Ongoing
Author(s):
  • FireWorks Educational Program
Contact(s):
  • Ilana L. Abrahamson
    US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program

Lesson Overview: In this activity, students participate in a human model that shows how wind affects fire spread.

Lesson Goal: Increase students’ understanding of wildland fire spread as affected by weather.

Objectives:

  • Students can participate in a physical model of a forest (or other standing fuels).
  • Students can use the Fire Triangle to explain how wind affects fire spread.
Online Link(s):
E06: Wind - Lesson Plan (147 KB; pdf)

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Keywords:
  • backing fire
  • fire spread
  • head fire
  • wind
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Record Maintained By: FRAMES Staff (https://www.frames.gov/contact)
FRAMES Record Number: 24518