Ethan Homola, green shirt, and fellow students in Valerie Rogers’ fifth grade Polson Middle School class play a rousing game of double ball.

Todd Espinoza, with CSKT’s Wildland Receation Program, asks students which animal they think has the best and worst sense of smell. Of the options given, students accurately guessed that a bear has the best and a human the worst. A bear, Espinoza pointed out, has a sense of smell 21,000 times better than a human.

Scott Kiser, of the Mission Valley Back Country Horsemen, talks to students about the importance of “leave no trace” when exploring outdoors and the specifics of how to do so.

Fourth grader Anna Fansher demonstrates for her classmates how bringing an overly large pack isn’t a good idea when hiking or camping.

Kaylie Durglo, with the CSKT Wildlife Management Program, shows students an Eagle skull. Durglo taught students the following phrase on how to identify prey and predator skulls based on eye socket placement. “Eyes to the front, born to hunt,” she said. “Eyes to the side, run and hide.”

At the Tribal Fish and Game station, students pretended they were bears searching for food. Some bears had limitations, like the “blind bear” above. Students learned that a bear needs 80 pounds of food to survive for 10 days.