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Camp Internet
News from the Director
Timothy Tyndall - Director - Camp Internet
Weekly News & Briefing
April 2 - April 8, 2007
New to Camp for the Spring Session is a course in Linux.
A new Operating System with all the icons of windows or mac and with the stability and security of Unix.
A great learning challenge for students with a strong technology Internet, the course represents an introduction to Unix that will provide a tremendous new skill.
Look for the contest at the end of the month, we will be giving away 3 copies of the new SuSe LINUX, a software package that installs itself right on a Windows based comptuer, keeping Windows and adding Linux.
If you would like to sign-up for the Summer Linux course send an email to rain@rain.org
For Students This Week
Exciting Learning Adventures continue this week -
Islands explores 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
and have students prepare reports we can post online.
Go to http://www.rain.org/campinternet/american-history" to check out the class.
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 Do an art project to tie a hands on to the online history unit.
Southwest now moves to meet the Hopi and Acoma online and learns about their lives today and their art and culture. See how the Anasazi live on in the pueblos.
Hopi
http://www.rain.org/campinternet/southwest/hopi
Acoma
http://www.rain.org/campinternet/southwest/acoma.html
Do an art project to tie a hands on to the online LIVING history unit.
New Garden Spring Equinox Studies Gardens are planning their gardens, sprouting seeds, and preparing their soil
Goto: http://www.rain.org/global-garden
Create your own garden, in a pot, on a window sill, in your yard ... give back a gift of Spring celebration to the Earth.
The Global-Garden Classroom
Spring Garden Projects and Learning for School and Home
Native American Life in Early California
California Native Plants
The Inter-Tidal Zone
a special study unit with audio and video
Ocean Studies
Ocean Art Gallery
Explore Astronomy
Marine Mammals - a special Channel Islands Study Unit
California Zoology
Learn about the Animals who live in the California Backcountry.
Young Readers
Storybooks
Native Plants of the Channel Islands Region
The Channel Islands are sometimes referred to as the North American Galapagos due to the unique species and sub species that can be found on these isolated and less disturbed Island habitats. Both plants and animals on the California Channel Islands have developed unique characteristics.
The plants on the islands represent native species, which have lived on the island since before European colonization began, and they include introduced plants that the settlers brought with them. The islands also have plants with utilitarian and medicinal properties understood by the Native Americans who lived on the islands since up to 13,000 years ago.
Young Readers
Storybooks - Channel Islands Science Topics
Ancient Southwest Studies
Dinosaurs in the
Ancient Southwest
PeaceWorks Project
Submit a Poem for this International Camp Internet Project
Sustainable Agriculture
- What Is It?
from the Global Garden Study Unit
Channel Islands Literature & Story Web
from the California Channel Islands Study Unit
Channel Islands Science Studies Web
Gabrielino Storytelling from the Channel Islands Region
a special study unit from the Camp Internet Channel Islands Literature Study Unit
Teacher Center
Important Tools, Forms and Resources for Teachers
Channel Islands Focus for this Week:
The History, Art & Culture of Surfing
Explore First Peoples in the Ancient Southwest unit
Ocean Studies
Part of the larger Environmental Studies within Camp Internet, the Ocean Studies unit links you to resources, projects and interesting online video.
Civics - American Government Studies
Goto our Forms
and Printable Materials.
If you have any questions send them over to camp@campinternet.net
800.889.2823 P.O. Box 325, Buellton, CA 93427
Where would you like to explore this week?
Camp Internet
Global Garden
Video Library & Broadcasting
Homeschool Campus
American
History
ESL
Ocean Studies class
Search the Camp web