 The Wildfire Prevention Online Educational Program is part of an initiative to help protect our forest resources through education and information about wildfire, wildfire prevention, and forest management. While the primary audience is middle elementary students, the Wildfire Prevention Online Program can also be used to inform all children and adults about:
- Good and bad fires
- The Benefits of prescribed fires in wildland areas
- How to prevent dangerous wildfires
Students will enjoy learning about:
- The importance of forest ecosystems
- How to protect homes from disastrous wildfire
- How to properly build and extinguish a campfire
- How fire inclusion and exclusion affect forests
Click Here to Explore the Forest with Rocco!
- Online Videos and Demonstrations with FUN Student Activities
- Detailed lesson plans correlated to State Standards
- Student assessments, enhancement activities, and family participation ideas
This program includes a teacher guide that helps the educator use the online program to teach concepts such as
- How fire is created
- What forest ecosystems need to survive
- Good fire versus bad fire
- The effects of wildland fire
- Preventing wildfire
- The benefits of prescribed fire
- How prescribed burns are conducted
- How to protect homes near the forest from wildfire damage
- How to appropriately extinguish a campfire
|
