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Classroom Activity #10Bear
Using tape measures, have some students group other students together to form and demonstrate the dimensions of this grizzly bear. Have they ever encountered an animal this large?

 

Classroom Activity #11 Have students analyze the print of "An American having struck a Bear but not killed him escapes into a Tree." Have students discuss safety with wild animals.

 


Did You Know?
Bears are dangerous. The men found bear tracks that measured three times larger than a man's foot. Captain Lewis wrote in his journals about one of the men, William Bratton, who attempted to kill a bear. After one shot, the bear turned on him and chased him. It took two more shots to kill him. Captain Lewis wrote, "these bear being so hard to die rather intimidates us all."


"An American having struck a Bear but not killed him,
escapes into a Tree" The Journal of Patrick Gass

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