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.

 

 

 

 

Animal Habitat Continues to Vanish

Global warming is causing a lot of problems for the land, the environment, and the animals. Since 10,000 years ago, during the last ice age, the earth's temperature has risen five degrees. It is hard to say which plant species will be able to keep up with the fast changes in the environment. Rapid growing trees like spruce can move across the land up to one hundred yards a year. Other species of plants, like the slower evolving ones, only move a few feet per decade. On the west coast, Edith's checkerspot butterfly has already moved its course one hundred miles to the north, and entire populations of sea life in Monterey Bay have moved north because the water temperature is four degrees warmer than it was sixty years ago.

Fresh water fish are being affected badly. Species that depend on cold water, such as salmon, trout, walleye, pike, and muskie, are in trouble because of a five degree rise in average water temperatures. An Environmental Protection Agency study said that twenty four states could lose fifty to one hundred percent of their cold water fish populations.

Trees like the sugar maple could disappear from the United States. With carbon dioxide doubling in the atmosphere, the ranges of birch, hemlock, and beech trees could also shift 300 to 600 miles to the north. If that happens there would be large areas of dead and dying trees left behind and they are fuel for a sudden disaster of fires that would contribute to the atmosphere's heavy carbon load and the result could be the destruction of even more habitat. From 1981 to 1991 the start of springtime plant growth has advanced by eight days in most of the United States. This could affect some migrating birds and animals that go north to breed. If the animals migrate too early they could end up not having enough food and not reaching their breeding grounds. If they do make it they will find a dangerously unknown environment. Other animals that are being affected are the caribou and seals. The seal pups are dying because their snow dens are collapsing and leaving them vunerable to predators. Together with a reduction in the extent of pack ice, this decline. in the seal population could leave polar bears with no food.

Global warming is affecting everything and everybody in one way or another. So people need to start watching what they are doing to the environment, the land and the air we breathe.

Charlotte Alstrom

 

Our Planet is Heating Up	- Jonathan Boots
The Bering Sea is Ill	- Tatiana Sergie
Get Ready For Some Wild Weather	- Rose Lynn Fitka
More Extreme Weather Expected in The Future	- Cheryl Hunter
Severe El Niño Prediction Dismays Alaska Fisherman	- Jackie Paul George
Disease is on the Rise	- Willie Paul Fitka
Animal Habitat Continues to Vanish	- Charlotte Alstrom

 

Fishy Research	Student Whoppers	Parent Whoppers	Elder Whoppers
Staff Whoppers	Adventures Under the Sea	Global Warming	The Crystal Ball--Imagining how it will be

 

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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