Description

Lesson Overview: Each student selects a plant, animal, or fungus to study. He/she writes a research paper on this species and shares the results with the class in a multimedia presentation . During presentations, classmates take notes to be used later for an open-note book quiz.

Lesson Goals:

• Increase students’ understanding of how species living in the northern Rocky Mountains and North Cascades survive and even thrive in an environment that includes wildland fire.
• Increase students’ understanding that species may be adapted to specific fire regimes.

Objectives:

• Students will become well informed on the fire ecology of one species in the northern Rockies and North Cascades, as demonstrated by a research paper and presentation.
• Students can describe adaptations to fire for several species and predict the potential consequences of fire exclusion for these species.