Zeta Ursae Majoris is called "Mizar", girdle.

Zeta is the second star on the handle and is one of the most famous binary systems in the heavens: binoculars.
      Binoculars, or even the naked-eye on exceptional nights, reveal the dimmer companion Alcor (80 UMa) at a position angle of 71º and a separation of 708". Observers once reasoned that the two were optical binaries only, not gravitationally bound to each other, since Mizar was thought to be 60 light years away, and Alcor 80. However the Hipparcos satellite has calculated that Mizar's distance from us is 78 light years, and Alcor's is 81. Moreover they have nearly the same proper motion and therefore most probably form a true binary system.
      Mizar has another fourth-magnitude companion fixed at PA 152º and separation 14.4".

From Mizar-Alcor the Messier object M101 is easily found, nearly in the same field of vision. If Mizar is at the left-hand side of your glasses (it being winter and the constellation being upside down) then M101 will be just off the edge toward the right. Sweep the glasses half a field more to put M101 in the centre of your field of view: binoculars.