In this activity, students observe the teacher igniting flour when it is in a basic combustion chamber.
By the end of this activity, students should be able to:
- understand how surface area of fuel affects fire behaviour – the more surface area, the more quickly ignition will take place.
Download the Word file (see link below) for:
- introduction/background notes
- what you need
- what to do
- scientific explanation.
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Fire behaviour explores the variables that influence fire.
These are some common misunderstandings about fire. They acknowledge that children have made reasonable sense of the ideas based on their experience. Keep them in mind while teaching – and address them as they come up.
