THIS WEEK is GLOBAL SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY WEEK !!
Celebrate this National event by joining Camp Internet and the National Science Foundation for great Ask-A-Scientist events. Here at Camp Internet we are taking MARINE SCIENCE. MARINE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGY and SHIPWRECKS questions that will be answered by staff from the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (write to camp@campinternet.net) and at the national level there are many other scientists awaiting your questions.
To connect to the main NATIONAL web site for the Week and register, go to
http://www.ostp.gov/html/gstw/2002/gstw.html
After you register with their online center, you can send in questions in the fields of:
Agriculture
Astronomy
Biology
Chemistry
Computers and Technology
Earth Sciences
Engineering
Environment
Math
Physics
"By sharing your questions with scientists and engineers across the nation and around the world, we are truly creating a global community. "
Available April 28-May 4, 2002
Please send us an email with all of the questions your class send in so we can watch for answers with you !
HERE AT CAMP INTERNET - Are You Ready to DIG the Internet ?
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.
For Students This Week
Enjoy the Exciting Learning Adventures this week -
Islands wraps up studies of the Channel Islands American history with Catalina studies and next week moves on to Channel Marine Studies and Protection Efforts.
http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/expedition3/
Backcountry spends our last week at 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 wraps up our month long learning feature 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/
The Global Garden class has a special unit this week on May Day.
The Camp Internet Garden is in process with sprouts, new plants and all sorts of activities along with a new GIS map system
that allows students to enter their own garden information.
Goto: for the Global-Garden campus
