Fire and Wildfire: An Overview

Fire and Wildfire: An Overview
scripts written by Megan Thaler, reviewed by Topher Byrd of CAL FIRE, and edited by Rushton Hurley

Hello, students! On this page you’ll find fourteen videos about how wildfires start. We recommend you view them all before choosing one that you can “interpret.”

What “interpret” means is that we want you to take the information in one of the videos and come up with a video that you think would be interesting to others your age. You might use narrated art, or a screencast with slides, or footage of you and classmates performing the message in some way. It’s up to you.

Work with your teacher to decide which one(s) you will do. The best videos could be seen by tens of thousands of people around and beyond California – we hope you’ll make something amazing!

Keep the project files, and be prepared for feedback on how to improve the videos. We want to help your videos be as strong as they can be. Once finished, check with your teacher on how to submit them as part of the Next Vista Wildfire project.

Fire and Wildfire: Introduction (1st of 14)

Fire and Wildfire: Fire Behavior (2nd of 14)

Fire and Wildfire: Fire and the Forest Floor (3rd of 14)

Fire and Wildfire: Fire and Forest Habitat (4th of 14)

Fire and Wildfire: Fire and Disease (5th of 14)

Fire and Wildfire: Fire and Seeds (6th of 14)

Fire and Wildfire: Fire and Disruption (7th of 14)

Fire and Wildfire: Fire and Logging (8th of 14)

Fire and Wildfire: Fire and the Changing Climate (9th of 14)

Fire and Wildfire: Forest Management (10th of 14)

Fire and Wildfire: Prescribed Burns (11th of 14)

Fire and Wildfire: Vegetation Management (12th of 14)

Fire and Wildfire: Fire Simulations (13th of 14)

Fire and Wildfire: After a Fire (14th of 14)

Return to the Prompts page.

Questions? Let us know!