Resource Catalog
Course
Type: FireWorks activities
Availability: Public access
Date Created: June 8, 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: Students consider their thoughts and feelings about wildland fire before and after a photo presentation. Then, using a reading activity, students read and analyze a chapter from a book about the fires of 1988 in Yellowstone National Park.
Lesson Goal: Increase students’ understanding that wildland fire is a complicated process, has complicated effects, and may generate complicated feelings.
Objectives:
- Students can use images to make observations and inferences about wildland fire.
- Students can describe and discuss information about the impacts of the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park.
Online Link(s):
Exerpts - Yellowstone In The Afterglow (749 KB; pdf)
Full doc - Yellowstone In The Afterglow (5.7 MB; pdf)
H01: Wildland Fire Observations Powerpoint (15 MB; ppt)
Handout H01 (96 KB; pdf)
Handout H01 - Answer Key (67 KB; pdf)
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Keywords:
- ecosystem
- Yellowstone Fires of 1988
- Yellowstone National Park
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FRAMES Record Number: 56022