
Camp Internet Briefing September 2 - September 7, 2003
Welcome Back To School! 
As part of the Camp Internet distance learning Community you have access to
resources, activities and Camp Teacher help throughout the year.
Full year Courses in Science, Writing, Reading, Math, American and World History
are just part of what will be available to you.
And you can begin any of the courses anytime during the year and we will talor
the schedle to fit yours.

Let's look at School Start Up.
Teacher's
Web
Keeping records is an important part of any Classroom.
Goto our Forms
and Printable Materials.
Now - let's look at the Course work for school startup
this month:
Science
We will study Geography this month. Goto:
Channel Islands Science to begin. Materials in english and spanish. Storybook
format for K-3.
Goto:
for California BackCountry Geography studies
Goto:
for Ancient Southwest Geography studies.
You will find one very important theme running through through our Science courses.
It is "the Scientific Method". Essential for all of the areas of science we
will study this year.
Let's study the "Scientific Method" just a bit. Read your course materials at
the Scientific
Method study unit.
Assignment:
for Friday: Write 250 - 500 words describing what
the Scientific Method is.
History
We will make a History Timeline and our first map to use throughout this years
History studies. 
Goto:
History Class Start Up
Goto:
to begin study of Native American Life on the Pacific Coast
Goto: to continue
your study of Native American Culture and Life. Read the Introduction
Goto:
for the third study unit this month. Read the Introduction to Ancient Southwest
History to begin.
Assignment:
Prepare your first Timeline. Goto:
for the Timeline Project assignment. This unit will also give you a world map
to print out for use during the year.
and prepare your word list as assigned. 
Reading
Writting, both technical and creative, will be part of our Language Arts studies.
As we go through our reading assignments we will also have reviews which will
allow us to practice writting in many forms.
Goto:
Reading Class Start Up for your first writting assignmnet.
A new part of our Camp Internet course options this year is the Peace Studies
and Conflict Resolution program. 
Combining Conflict Resolution studies with an emphasis on application in the
classroom with a more general Peace Studies course we explore the history, literature
and culture of Peaceful Societies.
Go straight to the Peace
Studies web
If you have any questions send them over to camp@campinternet.net