Students experience the excitement of watching live-streaming video of wild bears on Brooks River in Katmai National Park, Alaska, in order to explore science concepts in the real world. These three lessons, designed for grades 3–5, offer students the opportunity to engage in activities that focus in particular on the inheritance and variation of brown bear traits.
Lesson 1: Introducing the Brown Bears
Students find out about the brown bears that fish for salmon along the Brooks River in K