2. Students will research bear habitats

4. Graphing Activity for early Childhood K4 – 5th grade Curriculum Focus: Science and Math Materials Needed: Project Wild K-12 Curriculum and Activity Guide Chalkboard or Dry erase board Compare Yourself to a Black Bear Chart Graph paper for 1st – 5th grade students (attached) Objects which compare in weight to newborn bear and newborn child Prep for activity: (The day before activity is planned) HW students are requested to ask their parents what their birth weight and height was. This information will be used to complete our compare and contrast graphs. Lesson: Part One: Read “Black Bear Biology. Discuss the size of bears at birth. Discuss what bears eat. Discuss how big bears grow. Discuss bears habitats and what happens in the fall. Part Two: Discuss the size of humans at birth. Discuss what humans eat. Discuss how big humans grow. Discuss where humans live. Pass around an object which weighs approximately 8 ounces. Pass around an object which weighs approximately 7 pounds. Discuss the difference in size.

6. What do we both eat (plants and animals)

7. How are baby bears and baby humans similar (They rely on their mother for food and care)Additional enrichment: Shared reading activity - Big Black Bear by Wong Herbert Lee

8. Graphing and Data Activity for middle school 6th -8th grade Curriculum Focus Math and Science

9. Birth Weights of Students

10. Leaf Stem Plot

11. Mean What is the Mean? What do you mean? What is the mean? What do you mean, what is the mean? Exactly! I mean, what is the mean?

12. Mean is the average!

13. How do we get the Mean?

14. ummmmmm….. ?

15. Mean We add all the weights in the data together!

16. 6.11 + 5.4 + 5.6 +9.14 + 7.5 + 8.3 + 8.13 + 6.3 + 9.11= 65.59 Great! What do we do next?

17. 65.59/9 = 7.28777777777778 We divide the sum by the number of numbers we added.

18. Let’s round it to the nearest tenth.

19. 7.3

20. Extended Activity: Hibernation Station Grades K4 – 5 Why do bears hibernate? What happens while they are asleep?

22. Sticks

23. Grass and other small plants

24. Leaves

25. Glue

26. Medium to large stuffed bear

28. Discuss reasons bears need to hibernate (Allow students to make predictions on why they think bears hibernate before giving reasons. )

30. Place the large stuffed bear in the cave and explain to the children that our bear is going to hibernate for the winter.

31. View the bear.org website weekly and discuss what the children see as they observe the bear in its natural environment.

33. Read the book, Wake me in the Spring.Conclude the activity with a discussion of what has been learned over the course of the unit.