Your students can “meet” Sam and the other bears that live at the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center on their website. Each bear has a bio and photos!
Guess What This Bear’s Job Is!
At a special place in Montana, grizzly bears are put to work.
Learning Objective: Students will learn essential paragraph-writing skills while they learn about how bears test garbage cans in Montana.
Lexiles: 590L, 740L
Guided Reading Level: O
DRA Level: 34
Can’t-Miss Teaching Extras
Meet the bears at Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center
Bears in action
Check out this awesome video to see the bears at the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center in action!
Education for cubs
Share this clip of a mama grizzly in Alaska teaching her cubs to catch their own food.
Keeping spirits up
Here’s a fun fact that we had to cut from the article: To keep the bears from getting discouraged, staff at the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center occasionally give the bears an easy container to break into, such as a plain black plastic trash bag.
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