Last updated: December 29, 2020
Lesson Plan
Goldilocks and the Real Bears
- Grade Level:
- Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
- Subject:
- Literacy and Language Arts,Science
- Lesson Duration:
- 30 Minutes
- Additional Standards:
- NGSS K-ESS3-1. Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live.
Essential Question
What are the behaviorisms of wild bears?
Objective
To compare wild bears that live in Glacier to the bears in the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. By the end of the lesson, students should be able to name one food that real bears eat and know where wild bears live.
Preparation
Provide Materials:
- The story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- Pictures of Real Bears - black, grizzly, and polar (magazines, newspapers, internet, etc.)
Procedure
- Read the story. Compare the pictures of the bears in the story to pictures of real bears. Compare their homes (black bear=dense forest, grizzly bear=open mountain sides, polar bear=arctic ice), food (black bear=grass, berries, insects; grizzly bear=grass, berries, roots, ground squirrels, insects; polar bear=seals, fish) and how they live.
- Give each student a large piece of paper. On one-half of the paper, have them draw the three bears in the story. On the other half, have them draw the real bears in their habitat.