It is a hot day outside. How might you cool off? How do animals cool off?
Download and reference Kindergarten: Bears Through the Season teacher guide (link to teacher guide) pages 48-53 and student guide (link to student guide) pages 20-25 for full lesson plan.
It is a hot day outside. How might you cool off? How do animals cool off?
Download and reference Kindergarten: Bears Through the Season teacher guide (link to teacher guide) pages 44-47 and student guide (link to student guide) pages 16-19 for full lesson plan.
How do we study weather?
Download and reference Kindergarten: Bears Through the Season teacher guide (link to teacher guide) pages 36-43 and student guide (link to student guide) pages 10-15 for full lesson plan.
What do I see and do in the summer?
Download and reference Kindergarten: Bears Through the Season teacher guide (link to teacher guide) pages 32-35 and student guide (link to student guide) pages 2-9 for full lesson plan.
How do bears use their dens to survive?
Download and reference Kindergarten: Bears Through the Season teacher guide (link to teacher guide) pages 108-113 and student guide (link to student guide) pages 66--69 for full lesson plan.
What do bears do to get ready for the winter?
Download and reference Kindergarten: Bears Through the Season teacher guide (link to teacher guide) pages 102-107 and student guide (link to student guide) pages 62-65 for full lesson plan.
What do black beard do to get ready for the winter?
Download and reference Kindergarten: Bears Through the Season teacher guide (link to teacher guide) pages 94-101 and student guide (link to student guide) pages 58-61 for full lesson plan.
Why do trees look different in the fall?
Download and reference Kindergarten: Bears Through the Season teacher guide (link to teacher guide) pages 84-93 and student guide (link to student guide) pages 52-57 for full lesson plan.
The Discover Nature Schools Kindergarten: Bears Through the Season introduces kindergarten students to life as a bear cub and the patterns they experience to survive as they grow in their habitat throughout the year. Students role play pushes and pulls using different strengths, build bear dens, assess how changes in their environment would meet their needs as a bear, and explore changes in precipitation, temperature and sunlight and how it impacts bears through every season.
The lesson pages below are where you can access the online digital lessons and materials for your classroom such as audio, videos, support links. To be able to access the online digital resources, you will need to create an account or log in. Many of the books listed in the curriculum are available on Epic! which offers books online for teachers to use for free.
Classroom teachers are eligible for our free Discover Nature Schools Kindergarten Teacher Kit that provides most of the classroom materials such as books, a patch of bear fur, a bear skull, thermometers, and so much more to teach the Discover Nature Schools Kindergarten Curriculum. If you are a classroom teacher and are interested in receiving the free Discover Nature Schools Kindergarten Teacher Kit, please attend one of the free Teacher Workshops in your area.
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Our Nature Unbound instructional unit helps high school students understand the impact of ecology on Missouri and the world. It builds on knowledge students gained from previous biology classes. Most activities in this unit are designed to get students outdoors and exploring, investigating, and asking questions about immediate areas around their school.
In one activity, students explore the process of natural selection with colored golf tees in the schoolyard. In another activity, students use the scientific method to hypothesize where they would find the highest concentration of certain elements in the soil around the school. Students collect soil samples, test the soil, record the data, and analyze the results. These outdoor activities allow students to practice data collection while incorporating what they learned in the classroom.
You can explore the PDF versions of the student book and teacher guide below. Download the teacher guide to your tablet and the student book for Chromebooks.