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Anthropocentric Impact- Wildfires are changing our vocabularies. It can be a moment to remember lives with listening, guidance, Science, or gifts.
While New Education Options is beginning a blog about citizen science, many others are hard at work providing solutions, preventing more damage and planning for what's next.
With great tools from GLOBE's UCAR and national research sites, teachers don't have to be alone with this critical social disaster and making curricula inspiring and relevant as well as rigorous. The schools have provided some sheltering in place as well as the crisis manager app. Families may need everything to small supplies or information about big animals and pets. All of this becomes a way to learn about how to live in California today or to study our resiliency in the past. History, Science, Social Studies, ELA and IT can integrate. All of this can help with word acquisition, understanding, and test taking in the future and for now help children to make sense or be more compassionate to others.
Kids can learn about media literacy, about California's ecosystem as well as it's history and future. They can adopt seedlings as well as write and correspond through holiday or Christmas cards. They can draw, sing, and think about others.
Whether set by a human, caused by a mistake, impacted by improper fuel disposal, created by a smoker, impacted by a utility line, sparks, dryness and wind, it is sure that Wildfires are a combination of populations that are interspersed between dry plants, hotter weather and the impact of oil extraction and human or natural aerosols increasing risk, creating evacuations, and showing everyone that we will need new ways to accommodate neighborhoods, to deal with disasters, and to balance lifestyles once the FEMA and SBA disaster crews, relief centers, relief workers, and debris are cleaned up and plans to rebuild set. We've had fires before and we'll rise again, but for now everyone needs to be patient, kind, and informed or ready to help. This is part of Dicken's Christmas Carol's legacy to the history of the mop ups state wide where it is import to acknowledge all the professionals to prisoners who have made everyone safer from their hard work. The team work of Malibu, Topanga, and Thousand Oaks and the cooperation of citizens saved lives. Please consider volunteering, giving blood, or wrapping gifts with Burbank Coordinating Council or other service centers at this time.
For teachers and students, Internet provides proof that the elements are formidable and California planned ahead. Firefighters, police, and utility workers are thanked on walls of buildings along the 101 Freeway and at the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreational Area burn site. Chemistry students can study geology, the Enso Satellite's impact on Santa Barbara, the plant life, to the structural damage.
How can teachers address a tragedy like this? Listen, look, volunteer, plan, talk, listen, and hear what the community needs and who can provide help. We have big data and real science and have survived better through utilizing hand helds and ipads or tablets, cameras, and journalism. Remember to embrace those who risked their lives for the fire victims, but now we need to understand, comprehend, address, and restore others. A teacher can explain the ecology of fire to the disaster of it for different populations. It's up to us to use this moment to understand human needs, human factors, and what humor, gratitude, and generosity can do to heal and transform a cold to hot to wet to muddy holiday season this 2018.
Resources:
Cal Fire:
http://fire.ca.gov/general/firemaps
https://www.kqed.org/science/1917374/map-see-if-you-live-in-a-high-risk-fire-zone-and-what-that-means
Damaged Structures:
https://www.chicoer.com/2018/11/12/map-cal-fire-charts-damaged-structures/
Food banks:
https://www.foodbankofsocal.org
http://www.cafoodbanks.org/get-involved
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz6zuMyl2Ns
Bring Blanket's to Nat's in Woodland Hills, give food to some sites, and give money to others:
https://www.yelp.com/biz/nats-on-ventura-los-angeles?adjust_creative=dWJMtmYxpd5N5yoyzSuhtA&utm_campaign=yelp_api&utm_medium=api_v2_business&utm_source=dWJMtmYxpd5N5yoyzSuhtA
Find a Toy Drive:
http://www.christmastoydrive.com
Get help and don't be alone:
https://www.countyoffice.org/san-fernando-ca-emergency-services/
Big Data for safety and for journalism:
https://www.dw.com/en/data/t-43091100
Help KidsFirst.la give 60 seats to kids this holiday break in Woodland Hills (Califa Site or in North Hillls: www.kidsfirst.la (paypay now, tax exemption under 95-4849246 direct or through United Way Greater LA fthrough New Education Options:
EPA:
www.Airnow.gov
GLOBE.gov Storybooks about soil slides and about fire particles use the storybooks and modules with EEI curriculum from CDE and Seer.org:
http://sciencenetlinks.com/tools/nasa-globe-observer/
www.globe.gov
https://www.globe.gov/web/elementary-globe/
OES and conditions, incidents, possibilities:
https://www.dw.com/en/how-climate-change-is-increasing-forest-fires-around-the-world/a-19465490
Wildlife:
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/07/140721-animals-wildlife-wildfires-nation-forests-science/
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/NPS-Tracked-Mountain-Lion-Found-Dead-After-Surviving-Woolsey-Fire-502192901.html
News and webarticles:
https://heavy.com/news/2018/11/woolsey-malibu-fire-cause-start-how/
https://www.dailynews.com/2018/11/10/photos-images-show-the-threat-devastation-caused-by-the-woolsey-fire/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRtRpHnGhCE
Moms, churches, and interfaith communities step it up:
https://coolmompicks.com/blog/2018/11/10/how-to-help-california-fire-victims-woolsey-fire-camp-fire-hill-fire/
https://www.redcrossblood.org
https://www.vic-la.org
www.churchofthechimes.org
The human, call and participate:
http://www.burbankcoordinatingcouncil.org/holiday-baskets/
Help someone have childcare and stabilize families:
www.kidsfirst.la
www.ccrc.org
Fema, Irs, and other:
https://www.fema.gov/disaster/4344
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/tax-help-for-california-wildfire-victims
http://www.cdss.ca.gov/Disaster-Help-Center
https://www.cdc.gov/features/wildfires/index.html
Finding out about Urban Forestry and Cavity Trees or starting a Science Journal (www.drawingtogether.org):
www.cavityconservation.com
https://ww5.cityofpasadena.net/public-works/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2017/06/TPO_5-Sample-Tree-Inventory-and-Protection-Zones.pdf
http://cavityconservation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/The-Dying-Tree-Natures-Legacy-2.pdf
https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/draw%20together
https://www.lowes.com/creative-ideas/gardening-and-outdoor/grow-oak-trees-from-acorns/article
https://www.drawingtogether.com