Understanding Black Bears Curriculum

Each Teacher’s Classroom Kit includes:

• 26-disk Binder Classroom Case
• Award-winning DVD, Living with Black Bears documentary
• 25 Interactive CD-ROMs Understanding Black Bears (Teacher and Student CDs)
• Dual platform operation and easy autorun for both PC and Mac
• Click here to see details of the 29 activities

K-8 students may not openly embrace math, history, social studies, and geography, but kids everywhere can’t resist their natural fascination for bears. That’s why with this new curriculum students eagerly learn math, history, social studies, geography, and so much more while exploring the exciting realm of Understanding Black Bears through videos, computer games, quizzes and hundreds of interactive pages in these inquiry-based learning activities.

Five years in the making by science educators, wildlife biologists, and educational media professionals, this new interactive classroom curriculum covers 11 topics with 29 separate classroom activities. Teachers register for their free access code to enter the special Teacher’s Section, while each student receives their own free educational bear CD to give them a sense of ownership and promote extended learning.

The Teacher’s Section comes with:

• Quickstart Overview to get teachers up and running in minutes. (Click here for Quickstart Overview)
• Easy navigation from topics, to activities, to materials.(Click here for navigation screen)
• Correlations to Grade Levels (K-8) and Subject Areas (Science, Social Studies, Language Arts, Environmental Education, Math, Expressive Arts).(Click for Correlations)
• Teacher Guides to 29 Activities, detailed with step-by-step instructions for teaching almost any grade level and subject area.(Click here for sample activity)
• Extensive resource guides to supporting books and websites for each topic.
• Easy navigation to Student’s section (Click here for student navigation)

The Student’s Section comes with:

• Autorun on PC or Mac computers with easy navigation to activities and materials. (Click to view student navigation screen)
• Interactive computer quizzes, games, slide shows and videos
• Student-friendly instructions, coloring pages, and hundreds of interactive support materials.

Current Updates

As of December 2011 the distribution of teacher kits is on hold until more funding comes in. If you already have the kit, the teacher's access code is: ubb2010