How Do Wildfires Affect Our Water? Lesson Plan

In this lesson plan students will learn how wildfires impact watersheds and water quality and think critically about how people and communities can adapt to these changes. This activity aligns with Next Generation Science Standards for high school science education.

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Standards:

• DCIs: ESS2.C: the roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes, ESS3.A: Natural resources, ESS3.C: Human Impacts on Earth Systems, ESS3.D Global Climate Change
• CCCs: Cause and effect, stability and change, systems and systems models, energy and matter
• SEPs: Developing and using models, analyzing and interpreting data, constructing explanations and designing solutions, engaging in argument from evidence.