Cross-Curricular Connections

Fireproofing the Forests

Our country looked very different before millions of people came to inhabit the land between the two coasts. The scientists in "Fireproofing the Forests" are trying to figure out what our forests looked like before people greatly changed the landscape. Click on the link below to learn about Native American civilization before the arrival of Europeans in America.

http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078609836/student_view0/unit1/chapter1/student_web_activities.html

One of the scientists in "Fireproofing the Forests" is working to preserve a specific kind of tree, the ponderosa pine. Click on the link below to learn more about tree classification.

http://www.arborday.org/trees/treeguide/classification.cfm