Programs
Effect of Fire on The Forest "Is Fire Good or Bad???"
Affiliated Organization: Chugach National Forest
Affiliated Organization Contact
- Chugach National Forest
161 East 1st Avenue, Door 8
Anchorage, Alaska 99508 - http://www.fs.usda.gov/chugach/
- (907) 288-7717
- (907) 743-9476
Program Contact
- Katy Toth-Stauble
- (907) 288-7717
Program Type
- Activity Guide
- Calendar
- Classroom Visits
- Curriculum-based Programs
- Demonstrations
- Environmental Monitoring
- Field Trip
- How to Manual
- Internet Activity
- Interpretation
- Lesson Plan/Activities
- Map
- Poster Brochure
- Presentation
- Residential and/or Camp
- Resource Guide/Catalogue
- Service-Learning
- Supplemental Curriculum
- Traveling Trunks
Description
Students are challenged with the question, "is fire good or bad?" Answers are committed to paper and set aside till the end of the presentation, at which time they will reassess their answers. The Fire triangle is discussed, Fire's role in the ecosystem (natural and human caused, prescribed) is experienced through interactive four scenarios with costumes. Then as a result off the last scenario, the presentation moves into Forest succession after fire.
Subjects
- Alaska Ecology
- Archeology
- Arts
- Biology
- Climate Change
- Employability
- English/Language Arts
- Environmental Education
- Forest Service
- Geography
- Geology
- Health
- History
- Invasive Species
- Math
- Paleontology
- Recycling
- Social Studies
- STEM
- Sustainability
- Technology
- Wilderness
- Wildlife
- Wildlife Safety
- World Languages
Audience
- K-12
- Elementary
- Junior High/Middle School
- High School
- Kindergarten
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- Teachers/Educators
- Adults
- Public
Region
- Southcentral
- Southeast
- Southwest
- Interior
- Arctic Slope
City/Town/Village
Anchorage
Pay to Participate
- Yes
- No
Program Funding
Forest Service
Program Evaluation
None
Partners
Moose Pass School
Seward Elemntary School
Girdwood School
Seward Elemntary School
Girdwood School