April
15-22, 2002
THIS
WEEK is John Muir’s Birthday and Earth Day!
Plus
new Teacher-created Digs are online for everyone to use.
Do
the JOHN MUIR DIG – under Campwide Dig we have a new John Muir Dig ready for
you all to enjoy. The Dig links to the Sierra Club ‘John Muir Exhibit’ and due
to the way they have laid out their web site we are not able to make direct
links to each page, but do give you directions on how to use their left side
bar to find all of the answers in the Dig – plus we link to our own internal
Muir resources directly.
http://chat.rain.org/cgi-bin/nph-campwide
Why
Learn About Muir ?
John
Muir was born on April 21st, 1838 and his life work has helped shape
the West by campaigning for the preservation of Wilderness – the very heart
of what makes the western states ‘The West’ in myth, legend, and fact. Muir
was also an orchardist, author, speaker, environmental diplomat, and father
who traveled the world in his ‘ramblings’. He is a great role model for students
and adults of all ages.
LIVE
CHAT APRIL 22nd – tell us about what YOU do to help the Earth!
Meet
us in the Campwide Trail Guide Chatroom anytime 8am-3pm.
April
22nd is Earth Day. If
you have a community celebration for this event, let your students and parents
know and invite them to attend to learn more about ways we can protect the fragile
resources we depend on. Launched as a result of the Oil Spill of 1969 in the
Santa Barbara Channel, Earth Day remains a good time for students to reflect
on how important our relationship to the Earth is, and offers ways to help people
take a conscious role in keeping our world clean and safe. On April 22nd,
we will host a LIVE CHAT where students can discuss ideas for protecting the
environment in their own local community.
IMPORTANT
In-person EVENTS
APRIL
17 is the Camp Internet Web Building workshops in
Indio - all teachers are welcome to attend. Please RSVP to camp@campinternet.net
APRIL
26th is a special CAMP INTERNET EVENT at USC where all Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley area teachers, tech
coordinators, and GATE directors are invited to come learn about Camp Internet’s
training plans for Summer 2002 and the year round program tracks for 2002-2003.
We will also feature Star Teacher demonstrations of how Camp Internet has inspired
learning at their school. Event is 1:30-3:30 at the Davidson Center. Please
RSVP to camp@campinternet.net.
TEACHER
RETREAT - Our Happy Campers are invited to attend a
fun Teachers’ Retreat on APRIL 27th at Descanso Gardens in La Canada near Pasadena.
This retreat will help you locate funding to continue the program next year
and prepare you to let other teachers in your district know about the program
to encourage a district initiative. Lunch is provided, you can see the new Camp
Internet virtual tour and join a strategy session, and then we step out into
the beautiful gardens for a guided tour. Families can enjoy the gardens while
teachers are at the retreat and all can join in the guided tour 2-4pm. Bring
your GPS! RSVP PLEASE by April 19th and let us know if you need a vegetarian
lunch.
LAST
GPS DAY for LAUSD TEACHERS
is also April 27th so do join us for this very popular – and FUN
– learning day in the field! Session begins at 9am in the Science Building and
runs to 3-4pm. Bring your own lunch or order at the café. Families welcome!
Teachers
– we are now officially in the time frame where 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.
Enjoy
the Exciting Learning Adventures this week -
Islands continues to explore the history of each
Channel Island since transfer to American ownership – Who settled these remote
and rocky lands ? How did they survive? The DIG features the history of santa
Rosa and San Miguel Islands.
http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/expedition3/
Backcountry steps to the end of the 19th century
to meet the daring explorers and artists / writers who were the first to venture
into the California Backcountry Sierra Nevada on foot and then widely exhibit
or publish their work. From John Muir to Thomas Moran, from the formation of
the Sierra Club to Albert Bierstadt – these explorers were the first to take
photographs, pint, and write in depth about the Sierra wilderness.
http://www.rain.org/campinternet/backcountry/railroads/turn-century.html
http://www.rain.org/campinternet/backcountry/humanities/muir.html
Southwest will spend the rest of the month learning
about the Artists and Artisans of the Southwest. This week’s dig features famous
painters – Thomas Moran, Edgar Payne, Georgia O’Keeffe and Maynard Dixon.
Navajo http://www.rain.org/campinternet/southwest/navajo/
And
Gardens are planning their gardens, sprouting seeds, and preparing their
soil and PLANTING!!
http://www.rain.org/global-garden/