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Camp Internet
News from the Director
Timothy Tyndall - Director - Camp Internet
Weekly News & Briefing
April 30 - May 6, 2007
Summer Session is comming near with the yearly Camp Internet Summer Reading Program and new this summer, for High School
students, a 6 week course in Linux.
Transcendentalism - American Literature Studies.
The Peace Studies class will explore American Transcindentalism. Reading from Whitman, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller and many others.
special study course from the Camp Internet HomeSchool Online Campus
Peace Works Poetry Project
encourage students to explore the Peace Works web site and read some of the poems received from students around the world
Notes on Teaching With and Exploring Camp Internet:
Encourage students to explore Camp Internet. Assign Web Quest projects that help guide your students through several of the Camp Internet Expeditions or Classrooms.
Lett students set their level and goals. It is important and you will find Camp study units are easy for students to work with from many different grade and learning levels.
Camp Internet is a "curriculum enhancement" resource. Use it daily to become familiar with the many different levels of information.
There are reading assignments, story books for young readers, full text libraries and focused Literature units in each Camp Internet Expedition or Classroom.
Be sure to spend a little time exploring the different "Expeditions" or online "Classrooms" such as the Channel Islands, California Backcountry, Ancienct Southwest, American History, GATE, ESL, GIS and Global Garden classrooms and expeditions. Each has it's own Science, History and Art/Literature study units and much more.
Example of California Standards Matching
Be sure to email me if you have questions about using Camp Internet in your class. Send email to rain@rain.org
Exciting Learning Adventures continue this week -
Channel Islands Studies. Use the History, Science, Art and Literature that are part of the California Channel Islands as an exciting way to
explore Camp Internet.
http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/
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.
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
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