Overview
How has California’s ecosystems adapted to the amount of fires it gets? What is biodiversity? In this class, students will learn about how fires can affect the environment, what a “fire follower” is, and how to interact safely with fire in the outdoors.
Educational Standards
NGSS 4-ESS2-1:
Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.
NGSS-MS-LS2-2:
Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems.
NGSS-MS-LS2-3:
Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
NGSS-5-LS1-1:
Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.
NGSS-5-LS2-1:
Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
