May
28 June 1, 2002
What
Can Students DO?
Each
year following-up on their studies of the amazing cultural and natural resources
Camp Internet offers, students yearn to know WHAT CAN WE DO? to be a part
of protecting and preserving the important resources they have been studying
online.
Our
final study sections will introduce your students to the men and women, agencies
and organizations who work to protect and preserve our natural and cultural
heritage. These agencies offer suggestions for what students can do NOW to help
protect our fragile environment, and where they can go to learn more about our
cultural history or to become a part of it. And what kind of careers are there
in environmental and cultural preservation and protection ? We will find out
in the upcoming Digs and live Trial Guide Chats. Our Trail Guides are inspiring
role models for students and are proof that higher education can open opportunities
for truly rewarding life work.
THIS
WEEK at CAMP INTERNET
FIRST
What Can Students DO? LIVE Trail Guide Chat
Wednesday
May 29th 1-2pm
we will have the GIS Mapping and Education experts from the Channel Islands
National Park online for a LIVE Trail Guide Chat. ALL TRACKS are WELCOME
TO ATTEND ONLINE come find out how GPS and GIS is used as a conservation tool
in the real world!
Wednesday
May 29th UNDER the SEA Family Night 6-8pm. Come meet students and instructors from the
Cabrillo Aquarium, a student learning lab in Lompoc, California conceived and
built by faculty, student, and community vision. Online session is open to all
Camp Internet Students and Families.
TEACHERS
- Please RSVP by June 5th
For
TEACHERS we have a final LIVE workshop event for you coming up - RSVP for
Saturday June 8th. All Camp teachers are invited to come to Santa
Barbara for an afternoon walking tour to
sites of historic importance or to visit local museums. We will then reconvene
at Camp headquarters to post field reports online. Family members welcome. Check
in Noon-1pm to get directions and you can select sites of your choice. Then
head back 3-4pm to post your field reports. In the morning, teachers needing
to do their main field report training day can attend the how-to-session at
Camp headquarters (starts 9am), and this is the final DAY THREE for LAUSD teachers
still needing to wrap up their training. Then everyone heads out on the walking
tours. Come see wonderful historic sites from Early California!
Meet at 1129 State Street on the courtyard in Santa Barbara (parking
from Chapala Street side of building).
SCIENCE,
ART, READING, WRITING and HISTORY Projects Wanted! We invite all Camp teachers to post student
work in-class projects, field reports, community projects, art work in the
CAMPWIDE FIELD REPORT Room starting this week and through the end of June.
Teachers
this is the last chance to 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 when 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 PRESERVATION Learning Adventures this week -
Islands can learn about the formation of the Channel
Islands National Park and Channel Islands National Marine sanctuary and meet
agency staff live online. Live Chat is 1-2 pm on Wednesday, May 29th.
http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/expedition3/preservation.html
Backcountry preservation issues begin with tackling the
water and land battles of the late 1800s and early 1900s for background. Main
feature in the Dig is the Hetch Hetchy issue that pitted conservationists against
developers in 1908 and is again rising as a current environmental issue. Live
Chat is 1-2 pm on Wednesday, May 29th.
http://www.rain.org/campinternet/backcountry/water/
Southwest Dig will introduce students to agencies and
organizations chartered to protect the environmental and cultural resources
of the southwest. Live Chat is 1-2 pm on Wednesday, May 29th.
And Gardens Classrooms continue to tend their Spring gardens. Live Chat is 1-2 pm on Wednesday, May 29th. http://www.rain.org/global-garden/