Each should write the total weight on the outside of his or her envelope. Ask the blind bear how much food she got. Ask the crippled bear and the mother bear how much they got and record the information. Tell the students each bear needs 80 pounds to survive. If you included the water squares, each student should have picked up at least one square representing a water source, or he or she does not survive.
Water can be a limiting factor and is an essential component of habitat.
Ask each student to record how many pounds of each of the five categories of food he or she gathered. Ask each student next to convert these numbers into percentages of the total poundage of food each gathered. Provide the students with the background information about black bears so that they can compare their percentages with what are typical percentages eaten by black bears in Arizona. Ask each student to attempt to guess how healthy their bear would be. Ask the students to arrive at a class total for all the pounds of food they gathered as bears.