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In 2011, lightning started a fire in the Great Dismal Swamp. Then Hurricane Irene dropped about 12 inches of rain, and the fire kept burning for 111 days. How?
In this free transfer task, students use real published data from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and USGS to build and revise a model of an underground peat fire, then argue whether rain alone can prove a fire is out.
Includes:
Version A (supported): simplified reading, word bank, sentence frames
Version B (extended): volume calculation, carbon conservation, competing explanations
Teacher guide with source notes, model diagram, sample CER, answer key, and a 12-point rubric
Designed as a companion to Fire Beneath the Trailhead, a 3-day MOSAIC 5E lesson on the Marshall Mesa underground coal fire, but it also works on its own. (Coming Soon)
In 2011, lightning started a fire in the Great Dismal Swamp. Then Hurricane Irene dropped about 12 inches of rain, and the fire kept burning for 111 days. How?
In this free transfer task, students use real published data from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and USGS to build and revise a model of an underground peat fire, then argue whether rain alone can prove a fire is out.
Includes:
Version A (supported): simplified reading, word bank, sentence frames
Version B (extended): volume calculation, carbon conservation, competing explanations
Teacher guide with source notes, model diagram, sample CER, answer key, and a 12-point rubric
Designed as a companion to Fire Beneath the Trailhead, a 3-day MOSAIC 5E lesson on the Marshall Mesa underground coal fire, but it also works on its own. (Coming Soon)
