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Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, 1996
Phone: (800) 923-5548
Web page: http://www.umn.edu/bellmuse/mnideals
Grade levels: 5 through 8
Bell LIVE! is an annual program that covers a different theme each year. Through its innovative distance learning team at the University of Minnesota, teachers and communicators can access a live broadcast on the year's topic and coordinate it with activities provided in the curriculum booklet. In 1996, the theme was education on forest fires and their effect on ecosystems. The entire curriculum offers 21 activities or lessons organized into a pre- and post-broadcast format. The wealth of activities can easily be adapted for use without the video (available at the above web site). The information and activities are further divided into sections on forest conservation, fire and the forest, and forest management. The middle section's activities may be most applicable to the fire communicator's school visit; however, any number of these activities would suit the pre- or post-visit material. Lessons in this booklet are designed to meet National Science Education Standards as developed by the National Science Teachers Association for grades five through eight. The program presented by the Bell Museum's curriculum balances management views and the importance of fire to forest ecology with education on the prevention of unnecessary wildland fires.