Seabury Pioneers: Bear Reports

Here are the presenters:

And here is their work:

Today we polished up and presented the Bear Report PowerPoint presentations you see above. We’ve been working on these for the past few weeks, and this project represents a significant amount of behind -the-scenes effort spent learning about how and why we research, using books and the Internet to gather information, learning how to use notecards to record and organize information for a report, learning to work cooperatively in a group, and about effective design (white fonts don’t show up on a light background, etc.). Students chose the type of bear they wanted to learn about (Polar, Panda, or Grizzly /Black Bears), and worked in small groups to research each animal’s habitat, diet and physical features in terms of variations and adaptations. I'm hoping to find time to delve into the issues of endangered species before the year is over, and we'll continue to work on putting things into our own words. One day, we might even get to bibliographies!

All of the information in these reports came from the following websites, which contains many great resources and sources for further study for those Explorers who always want to delve deeper!

(p.s. I should note that the formatting in the Polar Bear report above is some glitch in the file transfer - it fit fine in the kid's slides!)

Websites for Bear Research

Animal Diversity Web

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html

ABCs of Black Bears – book versions:

http://www.bear.org/website/images/stories/education-outreach/resources/ABCs_100dpi.pdf

http://www.bear.org/website/images/stories/education-outreach/resources/ABCs_300dpi.pdf

Arctic Animal Study Center

http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/html/wildlife.html

Black Bear Basics:

http://www.bear.org/website/images/stories/Documents/Black_Bear_Basics.pdf

Born Free Foundation:

http://www.bornfree.org.uk/wild-crew/animals-around-the-world/