Students are to gather 80 pounds of food to survive. Each student has an envelope with his or her name on it. This is their den. Students gather around a 50 X 50 ' area. The food squares are scattered within this area.
Students gather the food one square at a time and bring it back to their den.
Do not tell students what the intials and numbers mean on the colored squares until everything has been gathered. After all the food has been gathered take the class into the classroom. Have students record the food they gathered in each of the five categories and the pounds of food gathered. Find out how many bears survived the winter. Find out how many bears could have survived.