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- 9th - 10th
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Students create a museum display depicting the jobs, technology, and risks associated with fighting fires. Full Review »
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- 10th - 11th
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Students determine the causes of the 1988 Yellowstone fire. They list firefighting techniques, describe the aftermath, and list the ecological outcomes of the fire. They perform experiments with ignitable materials found in Yellowstone National Park. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students investigate the analysis and decision making that goes into managing forest lands and participate in a simulation of a twenty-five year forest management cycle. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students identify effects of treatment weather on behavior of a wildland fire. They view simulation game that predicts effects of forest management on fire behavior. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students work with the concept of probabilitiy. They are introduced to the concept of chaos, students graph and analyze using a line plot. Also, students work with means, and are introduced to the concept of variance. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students recognize the social, cultural, economic and environmental significance of forests. They explore the range of human interests and values associated with Canada's parks and protected areas. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students examine how acid rain affects the rain forest. They identify the causes of acid rain, determine how human behavior can affect the environment and discuss ways to prevent acid rain and acid rain damage to the rain forest. Full Review »
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- 8th - 12th
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Students explore how to create and restore healthy forests. Given a scenario, teams of students create a management plan to assist the forest in becoming healthy, safe, and appealing. Students consider the ecosystem, adaptations of the animals, and the interdependence between animals and other organisms. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students explore forest species' adaptations to fire by participating in a scavenger hunt and mapping a burned forest. Students create maps and explore how indigenous species adapted to living with fire. Full Review »
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- 5th - 6th
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Students revise the points of the fire triangle and discuss the characteristics of each corner, drawing up a set of adjectives to describe each contributor to a fire, and discuss ways a person might "stop" each contributor. They then use a planning sheet to design the characters of Oxygen, Heat and Fuel to come up with ways the firefighter can put out the fire by stopping one of the fire triangle "characters". Full Review »
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