Allow students to look at relationships between environmental variables, wildlife needs, & fire. Assess prior knowledge.
Student Goals: Students create a concept map to assess prior knowledge and as a post assessment comparison/tool.
Instructional Resources: no
Activities:
 | Students use a large piece of paper to individually build a concept map(s) related to Wildfires, Forest Fires, Community, Habitats, or whatever is most appropriate for the unit of study. |
Cross-curricular:
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Language Arts: Use the concept map as a beginning point for writing. This can provide the details and organization to describe an incident or an area. |
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Math: |
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Science: Look at the relationships between different concepts and/or facts provided about the burn area, habitat, and variables involved in a disaster, before-during-after. |
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Social Studies: Model how to do concept maps using different branches to represent different aspects that could be focused on such as conflict/solutions, social and/or physical outcomes of event, or about an area and the impact of disasters. |
Multi-sensory- learner involvement & self assessment / Outcome:
| Create a concept map relating to an event that puts the event in the center and allows students to build in details. Do this at the end of the unit, using a different color, to represent post unit knowledge. |
Extensions:
| Different concept map types, different topics |