Campwide Briefing

February 25- March 1, 2002


The READING OLYMPICS are in the Final Lap!

This is the final week to enter the Reading Olympics on Camp Internet - challenge your students to flex their brains! The entries are coming in with text and images - check out the race for the medals at http://chat.rain.org/cgi-bin/nph-camp01-fr . Looks like we have room for 30 more medallists so post those ebooks (chapters and articles) as well as hard copy book reports - all count for entries. At least one posting per class is suggested to give your students a chance to participate in the fun reading competition. Event closes Feb. 28th at 5pm and winners will be announced in the Family Night and to Camp community March 1st.

FAMILY NIGHT is this Thursday the 28th, online 6-8 pm. Discover AMAZING WOMEN of the WEST ! Encourage families to come online to learn and to share a story of an amazing woman from their family's history.

Print out the invitation as a pdf at http://www.rain.org/campinternet/amazing_women_mothers_and_daughters.pdf

Or find it online as a word document at http://www.rain.org/~camp/feb02womenshistoryfamilynight.doc

Teacher Training and Classroom Track Field Reports Final Week - all DUE BY MARCH 3rd

The Fall and Winter field reports - for teacher training (field Reports / Teacher training) and for classroom activities ( Field Reports / By Track) are due in this week. This will close out the Fall and Winter Reports and allow us to reopen for TEACHER PREPARED DIGS March-April. We will return to SPRING TRACK FIELD REPORTS in May.

Teachers still needing to post their own Training Field Reports from their DAY TWO GPS activities or follow up field reports should post those by March 3rd in http://chat.rain.org/cgi-bin/nph-expedition

Teachers with classroom activity showcases should post those by track by March 3rd at Islands http://chat.rain.org/cgi-bin/nph-isl-fr
Backcountry http://chat.rain.org/cgi-bin/nph-bc-fr
Southwest http://chat.rain.org/cgi-bin/nph-sw-fr
Garden http://chat.rain.org/cgi-bin/nph-gg-fr


Are You Ready to DIG the Internet ?

Teachers - we are coming up on the weeks we feature YOUR Internet Digs. There is no other program on the Internet that lets teachers create these easy, non-HTML, learning quests so please join in and take pride in presenting your OWN Dig to your class and community. Six - twelve research questions are really all it takes to build a DIG !

Please prepare your custom Internet Dig, on a topic of your choice, by following the easy steps in the online training workshops located at http://chat.rain.org/cgi-bin/nph-teacherworkshop and when you have a Dig ready, let us know the week in March or April you would like to have it featured. The rooms we will set aside will be in the Field Reports area as we will still have the current Digs running in the Dig Section. Send reservation requests to camp@campinternet.net.

For Students This Week

More Exciting Learning Adventures this week -

Islands continues their PIRATES exploration http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/expedition2/pirates.html

Backcountry meets WILD ANIMALS of the Backcountry and learns about the amazing man, Grizzly Adams http://www.rain.org/campinternet/backcountry/humanities/twain/

Southwest keeps uncovering those amazing DINOSAURS http://www.rain.org/campinternet/southwest/dinosaurs/

Classrooms with Gardens are learning how to do the planning for their gardens, on paper and the web and are preparing their soil for planting by Spring Equinox, March 21.
http://www.rain.org/global-garden/