The Berenstain Bears:
Lesson plans and teaching activities

A Bear of a Poem: Composing and Performing Found Poetry
To add to students' growing ways of looking at and listening to words, students will "mine" texts for favorite words from favorite stories. Working together, students select words and phrases to create a collective class poem that they will then turn into a performance.

The Berenstain Bears
This site from PBS Kids offers lesson plans addressing a variety of themes. Accessing these plans requires Adobe Reader.

Berenstain Bears Home Page
Click on "activities" or the schoolhouse for both printable and interactive activities.

The Berenstain Bears' Mad, Mad, Mad Toy Craze
Students learn about spending, saving, and speculating. Park of the Wise Pockets project.

The Berenstain Bears' Trouble with Money
Students learn figures of speech and concepts of personal finance, including spending and saving. Part of the Wise Pockets project.

Explore the Moon with the Berenstain Bears
This K-1 lesson uses The Berenstain Bears on the Moon as the opening of a physical education lesson.

The Playful Community
Students explore their families as communities. As a class, they will create a "Family Album" using all of the family pictures brought in by the students. This document requires MS-Word or compatible software for access.

Race Track Sentences
Students generate a sentence online and then use it in a longer piece of writing. Designed to accompany The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race but useful in many contexts.