Wildlife and Habitat Studies 10, 20, 30

(a)	Describe the importance of safe fire-building practices in preventing personal injury and environmental damage.
(b)	Investigate a variety of ignition sources, such as: matches (e.g., paper, wood, water-proof and wind-proof); lighters (e.g., rotary, butane torch, electronic and reusable match stick); ferro rod; percussion (e.g., flint and steel); lens-based (e.g., magnifying glass, eye glasses and bottles); reflection-based (e.g., mirrors and polished pop can bottom); electric (e.g., batteries and steel wool, and electronic lighters); and, friction-based (e.g., fire piston, hand drill, bow drill and fire plough).
(c)	Practise safely lighting fires with a variety of fuel sources such as tinder (e.g., natural, synthetic and chemical), home-made fire-starters (e.g., hand sanitizer, cotton balls or dryer lint and Vaseline) and kindling.
(d)	Explore benefits of (e.g., minimal environmental impact), and options for (e.g., fire box or enviro-stove, roaster, rocket stove, gas stove and tin cans), contained fires.
(e)	Experiment with different styles of fire-building, such as tipi, log cabin, star, platform, pyramid, lean-to, Swedish and upside down.
(f)	Discuss possible solutions (e.g., curl stick) to the challenges (e.g., weather elements and lack of dry fuel) of igniting and maintaining a safe fire.
(g)	Exercise caution and proper procedures when using tools to process firewood, such as pocketknives for kindling and saws for cutting.
(h)	Research historical Indigenous-led applications of fire and cultural burning as part of forest and grassland succession and regeneration.

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