Cultural and Prescribed Fire Youth Education

Students will consider what respectful actions look like. They will identify respectful actions people can take to help us prevent and be safe from wildfires. Students will demonstrate their learning by describing how disrespectful actions with fire can be made respectful.

Students will practice making inferences before reading, using details from the cover of a book; during reading, using keywords from a story to predict the main idea; after reading, revisiting an initial decision and deciding if it is still the best statement to represent the main idea from the book.

Students will identify three important ideas about fire by exploring how First Peoples used fire to care for the land.

Students will explore aspects of First Peoples’ relationships with fire to identify important lessons that can be learned about using fire to care for the land. Students collect or create relevant images and use them to show and describe important lessons to be learned from First Peoples’ relationships with fire.

Students will explore the possible connections and relationships between climate change and wildfire.

Students will identify and rate the important effects that prescribed fire can have on ecosystem health. To demonstrate their learning, students develop a public service announcement to communicate important messages about the roles that prescribed fire can play in supporting ecosystem health.

Students identify important lessons from Indigenous Peoples’ traditional knowledge and practices that could help prevent wildfires and protect communities from them.

Students will explore attitudes, laws, and actions related to colonialism and their relationship with wildfires. Students will demonstrate their learning by creating social media posts that describe the relationships between colonialism and wildfires.

Students identify the factors that affect wildfire frequency and intensity and then use criteria to decide how much climate change may impact each of these factors.

Students create and use criteria for a powerful action to identify personally powerful actions that can help mitigate the causes and impacts of climate change and wildfires.