Environmental Education
fire ecology
Grade: 6
Duration: 45 minutes
Location: Home/Backyard/Park
Materials:
● Visuals ● Story ● 12 Clues ● Paper ● Markers ● Grass ● Twigs ● Sticks ● Branches ● Logs ● Colored Pencils ● Pencils
Lesson Preparation:
● Print out or have the Red Huckleberry Story available to read on a computer/tablet.
● Print and cut out clues. Hide them in the area of the lesson.
● Collect grass, different sized sticks/branches, logs (if available) for lesson use – If these are not available please print and cut out the fuel images
● Make sure that paper and writing materials are available for the students
Objectives: Students will
● Identify the pros and cons of wildfires by sharing their knowledge of fire and discussing the messages in a short story about fire.
● Define the three methods of heat transfer in a wildfire by presenting clues they found in the forest in small groups.
● Categorize natural fuels based on the amount of heat energy required for combustion by arranging fuel examples in small groups.
● Predict what a fire would look like at different habitats and its effects by recording or sketching their ideas in their field journals.
Fire and the Red Huckleberries by Sarah Norton
(Story pdf to accompany Fire Ecology lesson)