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Camp Internet
News from the Director
Timothy Tyndall - Director - Camp Internet
Weekly News & Briefing
January 22 - January 28, 2007
Young Readers
Storybooks
Rediscover America's Original PromiseNew study unity from Camp Internet's American History Program
America's "Original Promise" is as diverse and fascinating as the people who make up America.
We will refer to the "North American Vision" during this study unit.
What is America's Original Promise and why does it need rediscovering?
One of the main ideas explored in this study unit is that any culture has certain essential myths, symbols, goals and attitudes that characterize its approach to life and that manage to persist through many generations and much superficial change.
Even deeper than this, when different cultures occupy the same land area, sometimes they also share basic visions, and one gets the sense almost of the spirit of the land speaking through these diverse cultures.
When a culture is consciously in touch with and in tune with its deeper visions, it is like a person who has discovered his/her own particular calling - it releases a great deal of creative and integrative energy.
We will see this creative energy shapping the American Vision from the days of "First Peope" to the writings of Walt Whitman.
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
Sea Tales - Storytelling from the Channel Islands Region
a special study unit from the Camp Internet Channel Islands Study Unit
Native Americans and the California Channel Islands
The
California Mission Era a special lesson from the Channel Islands History Unit.
Animated Timeline and Map of the California Missions
Teacher Center
Important Tools, Forms and Resources for Teachers
Channel Islands Focus for this Week:
The History, Art & Culture of Surfing
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.
Channel Islands Literature Study Continues:
The Rainbow Bridge - a Chumash Indian Story -
Another, more recent, book published about the Chumash, is the story of *Hutash*, the Chumash Earth Goddess who created a
rainbow bridge by which the islanders crossed to the mainland.
Those who grew fearful during the crossing, and looked down, fell into the ocean and were changed into *dolphins* ... a sea creature still thought of
by the Chumash today as a relative of their people.
Follw this link to the Literature Portal and the Rainbow Bridge Study Unit
(or go to: http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/stories for the Literature Portal
History studies this week continue our research of California Tribal Groups. We have studied
the Chumash and the Gabrielinos Tribal groups. This week we will begin to learn about
the Shasta. This is our first adventure into Northern California to learn about the Native Peoples and their cultures.
As we study be sure to keep notes and work on an essay that explores the Relationships and the Differences in the different Tribes.
Follow this link to
your Shasta Studies
Click on the link above for Shasta Studies or go to: http://www.rain.org/campinternet/backcountry/shasta/
Rock Art Quiz still active this week!
Click Here to explore now
For the Channel Islands Activities
web go to: by clicking on this portal link
Let's look at some of the areas you can explore as School starts up.
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.
Now - let's look at the Course work still active from last week:
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.
History
Goto:
this link for Homeschool History Class
If you have any questions send them over to camp@campinternet.net
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