1-Day Firewise Community Assessment with JavaMaps Workshop
For Middle and High School STEM, Geography, Social Studies and Science Teachers
and Youth Educators
Sponsored by the Minnesota DNR Firewise Program
and the MN Alliance for Geographic Education
Engage your students in a standards-based, authentic project designed to introduce them to wildfire, wildland/urban interface issues and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Provide a valuable service to your local fire department, community, and the State of Minnesota.
Featuring Internet Based GIS Wildfire Risk Assessment
for Windows PC or Macintosh
Saturday, September 26th, 2009
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Macalester College
1600 Grand Avenue
St. Paul, MN
The Minnesota DNR Firewise Program addresses the risk of homes in the wildland/urban interface to wildland fire. As more homes are built in the woods and fields of Minnesota, the existing firefighting resources are less able to protect everyone’s property while trying to control a wildfire. Homes close to evergreens and tall grasses of prairies or marshes are most at risk. Making your home able to survive an approaching wildfire is the goal of the Firewise program.
The “Firewise Community Assessment with JavaMaps” project provides a unique, hands-on opportunity for students to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technologies to assess the wildfire risk of their community and to educate their community on steps that can be taken to reduce that risk.
For more info, see http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/education/wildfire/firewise_communityproject.html
