Blue Project

In the summer of 1910, one of the biggest forest fires of the century ripped through the mountains of Idaho and Montana. While forest fires are destructive and dangerous, they are also an important element in rejuvenating forests. Your project for The Big Burn is to create a poster showing the stages of a forest before and after a forest fire. Using the websites below, gather information about forest fires in the western part of the US. Your teacher will give you a large piece of poster board. On it you should draw four pictures. One is off a forest before a fire, the second is of a forest during a burn, the third is of the land just after the fire and the fourth is of a forest one year after a burn. Below each picture describe what it is we are looking at. Make sure to be specific. You may arrange it in any order (a line, a circle and so on) you wish. Your poster should also include a title and your name. You may use any art materials (watercolors, crayons and so on) you wish. It is a good idea to create a rough sketch of what your final poster will look like before you hand it in. Be neat and proofread your work before you hand it in.

Smokey The Bear
http://www.smokeybear.com/only_you_flash.asp

What is Fire’s Role?
http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/MNR/affmb/Fire/Science/Role.htm

World Wildlife Fund
http://www.worldwildlife.org/forestfires/