Course

Title

FireWorks for the Northern Rocky Mountains and Northern Cascades - H01: Introduction to Wildland Fire in the Northern Rocky Mountains and North Cascades
Course Type: FireWorks activities
Availability: Public access
Author(s): FireWorks Educational Program
Contact(s):
  • Ilana L. Abrahamson
    US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program
    ilana.l.abrahamson@usda.gov
Date Created: June 8, 2018
Ongoing

Cataloging Information

Keyword(s):
  • ecosystem
  • Yellowstone Fires of 1988
  • Yellowstone National Park
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Record Maintained By:
FRAMES Staff; https://www.frames.gov/contact
Record Last Modified: February 17, 2020
FRAMES Record Number: 56022

Description

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):
H01: Introduction to Wildland Fire in the N. Rockies-Cascades - Lesson Plan (558 KB; pdf)
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)