FireWorks Workshops

FireWorks Educator Workshops are typically offered each year at the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory to teach educators, community leaders, and agency communicators how to use the FireWorks curricula and trunks of materials. Workshops are two full days, and participants can earn university credit through the University of Montana, or Montana OPI credit.

Participants learn hands-on activities for teaching about wildland fire science

• Activities cover combustion, fire spread, fire history, management, and fire effects on plants and animals

• Supplemented by activities on fire use by Native Americans

Past workshops and webinars:

• Recorded webinar (October 30, 2018): “Wildland Fire: Teaching K-12 NGSS through one of California's critical phenomenon and issues”. http://www.cafiresci.org/events-webinars-source/category/fireworks-integration-of-wildfire-science-into-k-12-education.

Upcoming workshops and webinars:

• Two-day Sierra Nevada FireWorks workshop (Thursday August 1, 10:00 am- 7:00 PM - Friday August 2, 9:00AM-5:00 PM). Blodgett Forest Research Station, Georgetown, CA. Questions/Comments, contact Ali Stefancich, astefancich@ucanr.edu  (530) 639-8807. Use this link to register: https://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=27642

• Half-day workshop at the 8th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress: Cultivating Pyrodiversity conference. November 18, 2019 (8:00am to 12:00pm)