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FireWorks Trunk Contents
These materials prepared by Jane Kapler Smith and Nancy McMurray, Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, Missoula, MT
This web page contains directions for printing and constructing many of the materials for a FireWorks trunk. To create a CD of this material please download our disk image files(right click and Save): ISO Disk Image.
To create an entire FireWorks trunk, please print the additional materials.
The information below describes materials for individual activities. It is organized according to the Curriculum. Some materials are listed several times; the FireWorks Notebook, for example, is listed under 8 activities. If you're downloading information from several activities, save yourself time and paper: Print those documents only once.
Here are two items that may be useful throughout your use of FireWorks:
Visual Aids & Handouts Binder
Here are two items that may be useful throughout your use of FireWorks:
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Getting Acquainted with Fire
Chapter 3. Burning Questions
Activity 3-1. For Primary and Elementary: Meeting the Fire Triangle
Activity 3-2. For Middle School: Meeting the Fire Triangle
Activity 3-3. Testing the Fire Triangle
Activity 3-4. The Fire Triangle in Wildlands
- Tree Portrait poster
- Fuels, Tree Parts…kit
- Matchstick forest kits (4)
- Obtain videotape or DVD of "Managing Wildland Fire-- a Matter of Choice" from
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Activity 3-5. Bucket Brigade
Activity 3-6. Will It Burn?
Activity 3-7. Tinker Tree Derby
Chapter 4. All in One House
Activity 4-1. What’s a Community?
Activity 4-2. Tree Portrait, Plant Portrait
Activity 4-3. For Primary: Mystery Trees
Activity 4-4. For Elementary and Middle School: Mystery Trees
Chapter 5. Fire History
Activity 5-1. For Elementary: Tree Stories
Activity 5-2. For Middle and High School: Tree Stories
Chapter 6. Tough Plants, Tough Animals
Activity 6-1. Dead or Alive!
Activity 6-2. For Primary: Buried Treasure
Activity 6-3. For Elementary and Middle School: Buried Treasure
Activity 6-4. Tree Skin
Activity 6-5. Recipe for a Lodgepole Pine Forest
Activity 6-6. Designer Trees
Activity 6-7. Great Escape
Chapter 7. Communities in Action
Activity 7-1. In the Web
Activity 7-2. Always Changing
Activity 7-3. Story Time
Activity 7-4. Puzzling It Out
Chapter 8. People in Fire's Homeland
Activity 8-1. A Matter of Choice
Activity 8-2. Houses in the Woods
- People in Fire's Homeland photos
- Obtain “Wildfire—Preventing Home Ignitions” videotape from
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Activity 8-3. Living with Fire
- Obtain “Living with Fire” CD-ROM from
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Activity 8-4. Smoke: In or Out?
- Smoke photos
- Managing Wildland Fire booklets
- A teacher aid for this activity is available. The first section summarizes and illustrates the the first section of Activity 8-4, that is, the lab where smoke production is estimated. The second section introduces the concepts of atmospheric stability and inversion, which are used in the second demonstration of Activity 8-4.
Activity 8-5. You Decide!
Activity 8-6. Smoke: Value Choices
Chapter 9. In the Woods
Activity 9-2. Woods Hunt
Supplemental Materials in the FireWorks Library and Teacher Box
Additional Materials
Purchasing and setting up containers for a FireWorks trunk.
Use this page only if you are assembling a complete trunk.
Dimensions are in inches.
Your trunk will reside in 3 large, hinged shipping containers. They need to be solid:
- Boxes A& B are hinged distribution containers, each 19W x 26L x 15H
- Box C (Teacher Box) is a single hinged distribution container, 18.5W x 22L x 12H
Within the 3 distribution containers, you'll need the following smaller boxes.
These can probably be purchased at local stores
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Hardware Box**
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12W x 15.5L x 10H
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FireWorks Library
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9.5W x 14.5L x 6.5H
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Fuels Box**
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9.5W x 14.5L x 6.5H
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Cones Box
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5.5W x 12L x 3.5H
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Mystery Trees Box
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9W x 13L x 3.5H
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| Buried Treasures Box |
9W x 13L x 3.5H |
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All containers should be labeled. To do this…
Print the following on Avery 5165 ("full sheet") labels or similar forms:
- Labels for small boxes. Trim & attach to the small boxes that go into the trunk.
- Labels for the three big trunks. Trim & attach to the trunk boxes Cover with clear adhesive tape.
- Content lists for Teacher Kits. Trim & attach to the front of accordion folders for kits in the Teacher Box.
Print the following on Avery 5161 labels or similar forms:
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