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• BLM Fire Education Website Education and programs for teachers, catagorized by State.
• Books on Wildfire for children from Wildlandfire.com and a link to the adults' fire books page.
• Burning Issues An interactive multimedia program that explores fires that occur on wildlands (Grades 5-10).
• Colorado Fire Box Activities Fire Education Lessons for Red Zone Communities - Archive of questions, etc
• Dialog for Kids on Wildfire, call in and ask a fire professional. Also some good links on wildfire.
• National Park Service: Wildfire Education / Resource Management has activities, nice one for wildfire.
• Earth Observatory (NASA) shows wildfires from space.
• Evolving in the Presence of Fire (Earth Observatory)
• Federal Wildfire Prevention and Education Materials Can be ordered by mail.
• FEMA for kids: Wildfires
• FEMA Fire Curriculum for Kids - Parent/Teacher Lounge Archive from 2004 to guide you through the Lesson Plans, etc.; be sure and check the Resources button at the bottom of the page for more.... resources.
• FEMA Fire Curriculum for kids Archive with Lesson Plans
• Fire Curriculum for kids from Mt Lebanon, PA Fire Department (previous FEMA link is based on this)
• Fire Ecology, Association of
• Fire Effects Information
• Fire Safety Made Fun!
• Firefighter Gear NIFC Wildland Fire Gear listing.
• Fire in Florida's Ecosystems
• Fire Wars: NOVA Click on the Teachers' Guide for info on teaching about wildfire, online curriculum.
• Fire Research Institute
• Fire Weather from NOAA
• FireWorks educational program for students in grades 1-10.
• Forest Fire Lookout Association
• Forest Service Wildfire Education Links Page
• Global Fire Monitoring (Earth Observatory)
• National Humanities Center Search enter "History with Fire in its Eye" in the search box for valuable wildfire links.
• National Wildfire Coordinating Group - Wildland Fire Education Working Team, archived from 2010, many links
• Historical Smokejumper Photos
• How Stuff Works - Wildfires Click "Lots More Information" near the top for a links page of other fire topics
• Incident Command System command structure used in managing wildfires
• Indians and Wildfire Use a bibliography
• Interagency Fire Education Initiative hosted by the NPS, from 2006; found via the WayBackMachine; Fire Ecology, includes rationale, support information and lesson plans. High school level.
• International Association of Women in Fire & Emergency Services women and wildfire
• Learning to Live with Fire CAL FIRE pdf download
• Links to Fire Maps of various sorts
• Living With Fire is an educational game that puts you in the place of a fire manager, based on research and tools developed for real-world fire management. Recommended for ages 10 and up.
• Minnesota Wildfire Prevention Education curriculum and grade standards available for Minnesota teachers
• NASA Demonstrates New Technology for Monitoring Fires from Space (Earth Observatory)
• National Interagency Fire Center in Boise ID
• Interagency Fire Education Initiative from 2006; found via the WayBackMachine; Fire Ecology, includes rationale, support information and lesson plans. High school level.
• National Symbols Program has ideas, lesson plans etc and resources organized by region.
• National Wildfire Coordinating Group bibliography of wildland fire web sites
• Natural Inquirer for Middle School - Wildland Fire 2 Edition
• Outdoor Fire Safety
• Photo collection from Wildlandfire.com. Organized by category, includes Wildfire, Handcrews, Engines, Equipment, Helicopters, Airtankers
• Project Learning Tree Living with Fire (Pre-K-8)
• Smokeybear.com
• Smokeybear Teachers and children's story and resources for fire safety education
• Stress and Wildfire, general
• Stress and Wildfire, kids what to look for, how to deal with it from NASP (168 K pdf).
• Studies of Wildland Fire Ecology studies from the NIFC website, National Park Labs
• Taking a Stand: Pros and Cons of Forest Fires Thirteen WNET, NY, online interactive modules, grades 7-12
• TetonFires.com has links to many educational wildfire resources.
• This Thing Called Fire, What Is It?
• Tundra Fires Easy to read. (The Why? Files: The Science Behind the News)
• Types of Wildfire Archived Diagram
• Up in Smoke? Lessons from the California Fires Easy to read. (The Why? Files: The Science Behind the News)
• Virtual Field Trips - Resources from Teacher Planet. One science field trip for wildfires, but you could create more..
• Washington DNR K-3 Wildfire Prevention Curriculum Lesson plans and examples, tried and true. Click the K-3 link near Smokey. Do not know if complete materials are still available to WA teachers for free, since this is an archive.
• Wildfire Lessons Learned site has a wealth of information
• Wildfire News Current wildfire news search of the internet.
• Wildfire Public Service Announcements excellent, very brief tidbits - in Spanish and English, 27 covering topics on wildfire management, fire ecology, wildfire history; and wildfire safety and prevention..
• Wildfire Prevention CD ROM from Tennessee.
• Wildlandfire in Ecosystems: Effects of Fire on Fauna Jane Kapler Smith ed. (2000) pdf download
• Wildlandfire in Ecosystems: Effects of Fire on Flora James K Brown & Jane Kapler Smith eds. (2000) pdf download
• Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center with everything under the sun relating to firefighter safety.
• Wildfire Safety and Preparedness from Weather.com
• Woods on Fire wildfire effects on ecosystems. Easy to read. (The Why? Files: The Science Behind the News)

Helping kids cope following wildfire:

• Helping Children After a Wildfire, Tips for Parents and Teacherss
• Responding to Natural Disasters: Helping Children and Families. Information for School Crisis Teams.

Protecting Your Home from Wildfire