FireWorks Educator Workshop

The FireWorks Educational Program aims to positively impact wildland fire science education in the Eastern Sierra by providing a FREE hands-on training and classroom-ready resources to teachers, educators, community leaders and agency communicators in the region. 

This program is highly interdisciplinary and aligned to the NGSS standards and CA curriculum. It provides interactive, hands-on activities for studying fire behavior, fire ecology, and human influences on different fire-dependent forest types in the Sierra Nevada region. It also promotes understanding and integration of numerous concepts: properties of matter, chemical and physical processes, ecosystem fluctuations and cycles, plant and animal habitat and survival, and human interactions with ecosystems. 

The use of FireWorks will help each of the participants increase the understanding of wildland fire as well as learn how to share the information in a practical way in their communities which currently is a critical need since the declining forest health across the West, coupled with a rapidly intensifying wildfire trajectory fueled by a changing climate are making our landscapes primed for catastrophic wildfire.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

Saturday November 2, 2024 8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Sunday    November 3, 2024 8:30 am - 5:00 pm

* Coffee, snacks and lunch will be provided during each day.

MATERIAL PROVIDED

Each participant will receive a curriculum containing more than 40 hands-on activities applicable to the Sierra Nevada region and a trunk of materials for educators to share which includes laboratory equipment, specimens and posters. 

For more information about the program visit www.frames.gov/fireworks

The FireWorks program is produced by the Fire Modeling Institute (FMI) of the US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program (FFS) and brought to you by Whitebark Institute. Funding for the workshop is provided by Mammoth Mountain Community Foundation.