Description

Overview: Students use their knowledge about vegetation, fuels, and fire behavior to develop some rules that can help people protect their homes from wildland fire. Then they apply their rules by assessing photos of wildland homes, making recommendations to the home owners, and justifying their recommendations. Finally, they assess fire safety in a photo of a whole neighborhood.

Goal: Based on an understanding of wildland fire, students can assess how well homes and neighborhoods are protected from fire and recommend ways to improve their safety.

Objectives: Students can...

• assess the fire hazards on and around homes in wildland settings.
• assess the fire hazards in neighborhoods that are embedded in wildland settings.
• recommend steps to improve home and neighborhood safety.
• give reasons for their recommendations based on their understanding of fire and fuels.