Lesson Overview: Students design a model landscape to investigate how fuels, topography, and weather affect fire behavior.

Lesson Goal: Increase students’ understanding of how fuels, weather, and topography affect fire behavior in wildlands.

Objectives:

• Students can design a model of a landscape to investigate the relationships among fuels, topography, weather, and fire spread.
• Students can write a newspaper article describing how the components of the Fire Environment Triangle influenced fire spread.