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Lesson Overview: Students explore the fire triangle through interactive experiments to understand the relationship of heat, fuel, and oxygen with fire. This provides the theoretical underpinnings for how fire works.
Lesson Goal: Increase students’ understanding of the fire…
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Year: 2021
Type: Course
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): California
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Lesson Overview: In this activity, students learn about the composition of smoke from wildland fire, how it disperses, and its health impacts. They do a pre-class reading assignment and worksheet. During class, they discuss the pre-class reading, watch a video or demonstration…
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Year: 2017
Type: Course
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): California
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, inversion, PM2.5, atmospheric dynamics
Lesson Overview: In this activity, students learn that smoke from wildland fires can either disperse readily or stick around, reducing visibility on the earth’s surface and making it difficult to breathe. From a demonstration, they learn that long-term smoke episodes caused by…
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Year: 2017
Type: Course
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): California
Keywords: inversion, PM - particulate matter, fire-induced atmospheric conditions, visibility, human health
Lesson Overview: In this activity, students learn that smoke from wildland fires can either disperse readily or stick around, reducing visibility on the earth’s surface and making it difficult to breathe. Then they apply health guidelines regarding smoke to a very important…
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Year: 2017
Type: Course
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): California
Keywords: human health, air quality, PM - particulate matter, visibility
A 60 to 90 minute short course covering the basics of smoke impacts, regulations, smoke management, and communication.
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Type: Course
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, land management, smoke impacts, smoke management