Bushfire Education

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Understanding bushfire behaviour

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Select from the following list of student resources:

  • Task sheet 1
  • Task sheet 2
  • Task sheet 3
  • Task sheet 4
  • Task sheet 5
  • Fire and other emergencies, Department of Sustainability and Environment Victoria
  • Bushfires - Get the facts, Emergency Management Australia
  • Sentinel, the national bushfire monitoring system
  • Where do bushfires occur?, Geo Science Australia
  • How do bushfires start and spread?
  • Bureau of Meteorology webpages:
    • Climate Data Online
    • Average 9am and 3pm relative humidity
    • Australian rainfall patterns during El Niño and La Niña events
    • Black Friday in Victoria, January 1939
    • Ash Wednesday, February 1983
  • Fire danger rating
  • Fuel to burn - leaves, bark and bush litter
  • Long dry grasses
  • Fallen trees
  • Tall trees
  • House in suburbs
  • Grassland
  • Waterways
  • Hillside - terrain a fire may travel through
  • Valleys

 


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