Marshall Cultural Atlas

This collection of student work is from Frank Keim's classes. He has wanted to share these works for others to use as an example of Culturally-based curriculum and documentation. These documents have been OCR-scanned. These are available for educational use only.

 

The Sun Bear

 

There are so few Sun bears left nobody really knows much about them. But it is the world's smallest bear weighing only 100 pounds. New born cubs weigh about 7 ounces. They are blind and hairless. A few weeks later they are strong enough to run and play. The cubs stay with their mother until they are almost fully grown.

In Borneo the bears have been reported up to 49 thousand feet on a mountain, and in Sabah, Sarawak border region 7,500 feet on Mount Kinabus.

It takes a continuous block of forest of about 24,700 acres for a Sun bear to live in a place.

In parts of Asia Sun bears have a reputation of being as dangerous as an enraged elephant. Borneo seems to be the most likely place to find a Sun bear. A Sun bear can be a captive pet in Sabah, Borneo.

In 1960 a lot of Sun bears were caught and put in zoos in Thailand.

In Bagalore, India, Sun bears are considered extinct.

The populations of Sun bears are decreasing because hunters are over hunting them. The Sun bear is on the red list of endangered species. They exist only in the forests of the Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, Burma, and Thailand. In Bagalore, India, Sun bears are considered extinct.

By Charlotte Alstrom

Grizzly	Jackie George
Brownies	Matthew Shorty
American Black Bear	Robert Pitka
The Polar Bear	Sophie Ann Moore
Asian Brown Bear	Greg Evan
The Asian Black Bear	Mary Jane Shorty
Spectacled Bear	Jonathan Boots
Sloth Bears	Tanya Peter
Giant Pandas	Theresa George
The Sun Bear	Charlotte Alstrom
Koala	Yvonne Evan

 

 

BEARS Information Student Stories Non-Fiction Student Stories Fiction

 

 

Christmastime Tales Stories real and imaginary about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year Winter, 1996	Christmastime Tales II Stories about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year Winter, 1998	Christmastime Tales III Stories about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year Winter, 2000
Summer Time Tails 1992	Summertime Tails II 1993	Summertime Tails III
Summertime Tails IV Fall, 1995	Summertime Tails V Fall, 1996	Summertime Tails VI Fall, 1997
Summertime Tails VII Fall, 1999	Signs of the Times November 1996	Creative Stories From Creative Imaginations
Mustang Mind Manglers - Stories of the Far Out, the Frightening and the Fantastic 1993	Yupik Gourmet - A Book of Recipes
M&M Monthly
Happy Moose Hunting! September Edition 1997	Happy Easter! March/April 1998	Merry Christmas December Edition 1997
Happy Valentine’s Day! February Edition 1998	Happy Easter! March/April Edition 2000	Happy Thanksgiving Nov. Edition, 1997
Happy Halloween October 1997 Edition	Edible and Useful Plants of Scammon Bay	Edible Plants of Hooper Bay 1981
The Flowers of Scammon Bay Alaska	Poems of Hooper Bay	Scammon Bay (Upward Bound Students)
Family Trees and the Buzzy Lord	It takes a Village - A guide for parents May 1997	People in Our Community
Buildings and Personalities of Marshall	Marshall Village PROFILE	Qigeckalleq Pellullermeng ‘A Glimpse of the Past’
Raven’s Stories Spring 1995	Bird Stories from Scammon Bay	The Sea Around Us
Ellamyua - The Great Weather - Stories about the Weather Spring 1996	Moose Fire - Stories and Poems about Moose November, 1998	Bears Bees and Bald Eagles Winter 1992-1993
Fish Fire and Water - Stories about fish, global warming and the future November, 1997	Wolf Fire - Stories and Poems about Wolves	Bear Fire - Stories and Poems about Bears Spring, 1992

 

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