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September 24th from 10:30 am - 11:30 am MT

• WHO: Middle and High School Science Classrooms & Lifelong Learners
• WHAT: FREE virtual classroom call with Dr. Camille Stevens-Rumann
• WHEN: Tuesday, September 24th from 10:30 am - 11:30 am MT
  • Join for parts or all of this call! We will record the call and share it on our site the day after the event
• WHERE: YouTube! Register for the link, The Youtube link will be emailed a week prior to the event. 

ABOUT THE CLASSROOM CALL: The featured scientist in our Wildfire, Drought, and the Future of Forests Data Puzzle lesson, Dr. Camille Stevens-Rumann joins this Science Show & Share classroom video call to describe her past and present work in the US Rocky Mountains evaluating the impacts of climate change on post-fire forest recovery. Note that all classrooms are welcome to join, but want to stress that this classroom call is the perfect complement for students who have previously engaged with our Wildfire, Drought, and the Future of Forests lesson! The classroom call includes an engaging 20-minute talk followed by a 25-minute LIVE Q&A. Please come prepared to ask questions!

Register for this classroom call with Dr. Camille Stevens-Rumann!

Classrooms are highly encouraged to register for the Data Puzzles workshop ahead of this webinar: 

September 4th from 4 pm - 5 pm MT

• WHO: Middle and High School Science Teachers
• WHAT: FREE virtual teacher workshop focused on the Data Puzzles instructional framework in the context of the Wildfire, Drought, and the Future of Forests Data Puzzle lesson. 
  • Participants will leave prepared to implement the lesson in their classrooms and receive a 1-hr PD certificate from the University of Colorado Boulder
• WHEN: Wednesday, September 4th from 4 pm - 5 pm MT
• WHERE: Virtual - Zoom link will be sent one week prior to the event

ABOUT THE LESSON: As wildfires continue to ravage the west, burning more and more of the landscape, many are left wondering, what happens next? Traditionally, we think of forests recovering after a disturbance (e.g., wildfire following a particular pattern (secondary succession). However, contemporary research from Dr. Camille Stevens-Rumann shows that fire-affected landscapes are struggling to recover to pre-fire conditions due to increasing drought and are transitioning to grasslands and shrublands. In this Data Puzzle, students analyze and interpret post-fire forest recovery datasets to identify and explain the relationship between drought and post-fire tree regeneration patterns in the Rocky Mountains.