Looking to incorporate environmental education into your teaching?
How about teaching your students about the fascinating lives of grizzly bears and their importance in our environment? Whether teaching from home or in class, our digital resources are available online for you to adapt to your teaching needs.
With the help of teachers and grizzly bear experts, we have developed the Unit of Study: The Importance of Grizzly Bears in Our Environment, which aligns with the Grade 4 BC curriculum and can be used for a 3/4 or 4/5 split class. The unit contains five 45 minute lessons and accompanying teaching tools, including colourful visuals, fun activities, lesson plans, and background information sheets.
Included: Unit of Study + A Grizzly Cub's Year: Story and Activity Book + Grizzly Bear Sketching Lesson with Robert Bateman
Unit of Study: The Importance of Grizzly Bears in our Environment (Grade 4)
The unit of study includes a rationale, a unit overview, five lesson plans with accompanying background information sheets:
Lesson 1 - Introduces specific terms that apply to the ecological and conservation importance of grizzly bears
Lesson 2 - Explores the unique physiology of grizzlies
Lesson 3 - Examines how grizzlies shape the land as they move across the landscape to meet their needs
Lesson 4 - Looks at grizzlies' social life and ways of communicating through body posture and sounds
Lesson 5 - Examines how grizzly bears and people affect one another
The unit corresponds to the following Big Ideas and Core Competencies (as referenced in the BC Curriculum model):
Big IdeasAll living things sense and respond to their environment (Science, Grade 4)The pursuit of valuable natural resources has played a key role in changing the land, people and communities of Canada (Social Studies, Grade 4)
Core CompetenciesCommunicationThinking (creative/critical)Personal Awareness and ResponsibilitySocial Responsibility
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