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Fire Safety
Students investigate fire safety. In this safety lesson, students identify the fire exits in the school building and draw a floor plan of their house to create an emergency escape route.
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Fire and Fire Suppression
Students explore forest fires and forest service's new stategies. They study a case of natural burn and the impact of lowering the intensity of a larger forest fire.
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People Who Work in the Woods
Students study the types of jobs that people can do in the forest. They examine those who study the forest, harvest the trees, and plant trees to renew the forest.
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Who Works in This Forest?
Pupils examine the variety of jobs that are related to working in the forest. Information on the different jobs is provided in this lesson plan for the teacher to share with the students. The pupils create a collage using magazines to...
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Smokey's Message
Students list and discuss positive and negative effects of wildland fire. They discuss relationships among ecosystems and fire. They participate in role-playing activities related to wildland fire management.
Curated OER
White Fang Activity Book
Practice vocabulary and grammar with a series of activities from Jack London's White Fang. Middle schoolers fill in missing phrases, choose which story events are true or false, and practice key vocabulary words in a packet of...
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Mapwork: A Place In the News
Students determine how to find geographic information about places they read about in the news. In this geography lesson, students look at political and physical maps to determine the difference. They access maps online to find the...
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Place the First Digit
For this math graphs worksheet, learners use the table for the 'States with the Fewest Full-Time Firefighters' math table to find the first digit value places for the word problems.
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Black Hawk Island Hike
Students explore Wisconsin's natural and cultural history through hands-on exploration of Upham Woods. They are shown the basic paddling skills and they work in teams to paddle across the river on barge. Students describe cultural...
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Nouns
In this nouns worksheet, students review the definition for common and proper nouns. Students then circle the common nouns in the sentences. Students write the common nouns to complete each sentence.
BBC
Bbc: Chile Forest Fires: Troops Join Fight Against Worst Fires in Decades
South of Santiago, Chile is experiencing awful forest fires like they have not seen in ages. There is great concern over the destruction of the flames because of how many there are and how few resources they have. The fires are sparking...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Fire Cloud
Firefighters fight a raging fire on a wild horse range in Montana in this video segment from Nature.
Northern Arizona University
Northern Arizona University: Fire on the Plateau
A site that talks about forest fires, fighting forest fires, the history of major forest fires, and the career of forest firefighter.
eSchool Today
E School Today: Your Cool Facts and Tips on Wildfires
Explains what a wildfire is, what causes them, how they behave, their impact, how to fight them, and how to prevent them.
Other
Allerin: How Green Robots Are Helping With Environmental Sustainability
Robots are now being used to fight climate change and protect our green environments. They help to fight forest fires, manage our waste, restore the oceans, support renewable energy initiatives, and make agriculture more-environmentally...
Smithsonian Institution
Tween Tribune: Wildfires Rage Across Southern Appalachians
A drought has caused tremendous wildfires ripping through Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Find out the damage and how the U.S. Forest Services are fighting the threatening blazes.