Module 2: Wildfire!

A Study of Heat and Oxidation

Description
In this module, students will learn about heat and oxidation through the study of the Yellowstone National Park fire of 1988. Students will also learn about temperature, redox and acid/base chemistry, food webs, nutrient cycles, and ecological succession.

Investigations
For each investigation, the science or sciences that form the principal focus of that investigation are noted.

Investigation 1: What Kind of Place Is This?	Biology and Earth/Space
Investigation 2: Pick Up the Pace	Chemistry
Investigation 3: Blues in a Beaker	Chemistry
Investigation 4: Reaction in a Bottle	Chemistry
Investigation 5: The Egg Boiler	Physics
Investigation 6: Greasy Handles	Physics
Investigation 7: Top-down or Bottom-up?	Physics
Investigation 8: Soda in the Sun	Physics
Investigation 9: Hot Ice	Physics
Investigation 10: What Makes the Weather?	Physics and Earth/Space
Investigation 11: Acids or Ashes?	Biology, Chemistry and Earth/Space
Investigation 12: Changes in a Microworld	Biology
Investigation 13: Washed-out	Earth/Space

Supplementary Activity