This lesson is about forest fires and wildfires.
Students are introduced to natural disasters, and learn the difference between natural hazards and natural disasters. They discover the many types of natural hazards avalanche, earthquake, flood, forest fire, hurricane, landslide, thunderstorm, tornado, tsunami and volcano as well as specific examples of natural disasters. Students also explore why understanding these natural events is important to engineers and everyone's survival on our planet.
Poster for forest fire prevention showing a burning cigarette and a forest fire. Date stamped on verso: Jan 13 1939. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles: Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 230.
Poster encouraging use of "fag bag" for disposal of matches, showing stylized Japanese soldier standing behind a tree with a match, with the rising sun in the background. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 273