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A Key Stage 3 lesson from a climate change unit of work which looks at the causes and impacts of wildfires with a focus on the recent California Wildfires in 2025 and the role climate change has to play in increasing the risk from wildfires.
There is a retrieval practice starter followed by an introduction to wildfires. We look at the types of wildfires and sort the causes into human and physical causes. We then look to see if climate change has had an effect on wildfires. There is a video notes sheet to assist with this. We then look at California, the students complete a colouring by numbers task on the distribution of wildfires throughout the state. We then look at the impacts of the 2025 fires and the students sort these into social, economic and environmental. We then sort some responses into short-term and long-term.

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