Wildfire: Past and Future
Students build model ecosystems and place them under heat lamps to model climate change. Students can vary the amount of vegetation or water in their ecosystem to investigate the impacts of varying fuel and moisture levels. As a class, set each ecosystem on fire to see how climate change has affected fire risk.
- Educator guide [1] (PDF)
- Wildfire: Past and Future handout [2] (PDF)
- Wildfire: Past and Future presentation [3] (PowerPoint)
- Model Description page [4] (PDF)
- Instructional Video [5] (link)