Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. Each book in the series is designed to take readers to the scene of natural phenomena through close up, full color photographs and easy to read text. This book begins with an overview of the uses of fire in human history. It then reviews the concepts of combustion and oxidation and the fire triangle of heat, fuel, and oxygen.
Colorful diagrams illustrate principles of convection, radiation, and conduction.
Readers learn that grass fires can race along at 40 miles per hour when pushed by strong winds. The photographs show examples of convection columns and depict a variety of forest fires and fire fighting methods. Aerial photographs illustrate the pathways of fires, showing pockets of untouched forest amid the devastation left after the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park. Diagrams, maps, glossaries, and safety tips are also included. ENC does NOT distribute this resource.