Fat Bear Week

That's News to Me

High Int – Adv
All ages
Grades 9–12

In this lesson featuring an article from The Washington Post, students read about a fun, educational internet competition involving brown bears in Alaska that are fattening up for the winter. This lesson includes comprehension and discussion questions as well as a research task and a prediction task. May the fattest bear win!

Focus

current events
authentic materials
reading
interpretive
productive

Vocabulary

iteration
contender
girth
single-elimination
resilience
woes
get hooked on
camaraderie
pilgrimage
channel
conservation
loyalty
A spinning paper plane