May
6-13, 2002
Lets
do SCIENCE ! For the next
three weeks every track is invited to focus on Science learning activities.
We all have an exciting science event happening every night right now the
conjunction of Mars, Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter and you can see their
position at sunset tonight on our planet locator at http://www.rain.org/~camp/astro56.jpg
We
will have science digs online, and encourage you to do science projects that
become documented as field reports to post in CAMPWIDE FIELD REPORTS.
For
TEACHERS we have two special events for you this month
Saturday
May 18th 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 (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!
Teachers
this month 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 SCIENCE Learning Adventures this week -
Islands marine and plant science is our feature and
there are NEW photos for the native plants section
http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/classes/sea.html
http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/plants/
Backcountry plants and animals are our focus and we can
see them face to face online and take the virtual biome tours
http://www.rain.org/campinternet/backcountry/science/nativebotany/
http://www.rain.org/campinternet/backcountry/science/zoology/
Southwest has THREE deserts to explore - can you name them?
http://www.rain.org/campinternet/southwest/really-ancient/three-deserts.html
And
Gardens Classrooms are now tending their Spring gardens http://www.rain.org/global-garden/
