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Recommended for: Grades 3-12

Resource: Fire Cloud

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Media Type:
QuickTime Video

Length: 4m 42s
Size: 13.2 MB

This Nature episode shows a raging fire in Crooked Creek in the Arrowhead Mountains of Montana. Thousands of acres of forest are torched in a matter of minutes. The fire is only two miles from the meadows of the range where wild horses live. Helicopters drop fire retardant and water. Firefighters keep to the high ground. Miraculously, overnight, rains come, temperatures drop, and winds die. Producer and narrator, Ginger Kathrens, searches for and finds Cloud, a colt she has been documenting for years. Kathrens is relieved to find Cloud and his band (family of horses) have been spared from the fire.

Teachers' Domain, Fire Cloud, published August 26, 2008, retrieved on ,
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The following suggestions are best suited for elementary or middle school students using this video in an English language arts or science lesson. Be sure to modify the questions to meet your students' instructional needs.

Frame (ELA) Describe how you have used information in a text to solve a problem. For example, have you ever read a dog training book to learn how to teach your dog to come to you when you call him? Have you ever gone to a Help link to solve a computer problem?

Focus (ELA) This segment shows a raging forest fire. Watch the video to learn how a forest fire is fought and what the firefighters hoped to do to save the wild horses.

Frame (SCI) What do you know about forest fires?

Focus (SCI) How does this forest fire affect the vegetation and animal life of these mountain ranges?