April 8-15, 2002
THIS MONTH is
Earth Day!
Visit the special Camp Internet Earthday Web at : http://www.rain.org/earthday
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.
April is also
John Muir’s Birthday.
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’. This Month we will celebrate his life and invite all tracks
to join us in the Campwide Dig room any day, 8-3:20, to learn more about this
amazing man.
APRIL 17 and 19th
are Camp Internet Web Building workshops in Indio and Ontario – all teachers are welcome to attend. Please
RSVP to camp@campitnrnet.net by Friday
the 12th.
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?
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 now moves to meet the Navajo online and learns
about their lives today and their art and culture.
Navajo http://www.rain.org/campinternet/southwest/navajo/
And Gardens
are planning their gardens, sprouting seeds, and preparing their soil and PLANTING
and completing this years GIS map of the garden.
If you have a garden
beginning be sure to register it in the Global-Garden School Garden Registry
at:
http://www.rain.org/global-garden/school-garden-registry/
Check out the
new Garden GIS map at:
http://www.rain.org/website/garden
For new Garden
study units goto:
http://www.rain.org/global-garden/