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Camp Internet Outpost Briefing
Sept. 27-Oct.1 for students
Internet Digs
Get ready for some fun online adventuring ! When you arrive in either the Backcountry or Channel Islands section of the Camp web, you will find a link to the *chat room*. Use this link to open the chatroom. Once there, at the appointed time, we will be posting a welcome followed by a series of challenging questions that have the links to the answers imbedded right in the questions. Students will click on the *button* to link over to the research pages to *dig-up* the answers. They then use the *back* button on their browser to come right back into the chatroom and post their findings.
When you first arrive, please have the class or student post a hello and tell us who they are and from what school. As you post your messages in the lower message box, be sure to include a handle in the box below the message area - example : Johnny Alvaro, Orange School. This identifies who you are and from what school. Then, when people may want to respond to your posting, everyone will know who the responding messages are to be directed to.
Backcountry
This week we continue with our Native American, Outdoor Living, and Paleontology themes and introduce new materials. In Social Studies we will look more closely at Native American life in the backcountry and complete the unit you started last week; in Reading, it is the week to wrap up the famous writers words on outdoor living and then enjoy the Tupi book. In Science, we are going to learn about those amazing mammoths out on the Channel Islands and you can put your mammoth model together. There is a Tupi quiz to take online once you have heard or read the story, and if you print out the Paleontology quiz, you will start finding answers this week and next that you can later fill in online at the close of this science unit for best results.
Islands
This week we look further into Native American Life in the Channel Region in Social Studies (use the second choice on the menu , Native Americans in This Region ); continue with Island of the Blue Dolphin reading and research; and begin learning about those amazing swimming mammoths that lived out on the Channel Islands. You have been provided with Dr. Agenbroad's book on the mammoths, and a wooden mammoth kit to assemble for display. There is a challenging paleontology quiz online to work on completing.