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for the week of January 22-26, 2001
Highlights :
*LIVE CHATS - Weather Chat with National Weather Service on Wednesday Jan 24th 9-11am.
*INDIAN PROBLEM DIG - in the Student chat room all week, anytime - this one requires reading the historical documents and text - and then writing a 'letter' to Congress expressing each student's recommendations for improving the fate of California's First People. Think, consider and learn !
*How to Create Your OWN Internet Dig in the Teachers Chat Room thru Feb 4th
* Science projects - set up your weather station
New This Week in Channel Island Region History
We invite you to continue your studies of the Mission and rancho period at this general page http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/missons/ and then delve deeper into the resources we offer on the Spanish and Mexican Eras - including the Literature section with Ramona and Zorro, plus period writings. You will be able to go into the Chat Archive to take the MISSION DIG featured last week, go on the LIVE Cal. Indian Dig this week - which is a Camp Challenge activity - and next week we will go on the Rancho Dig. These projects all help students learn more about life as its was in these pre-statehood years in Alta California and into the first decades of Statehood.
Meteorology
You will find our weather section under Science at this link http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/meteorology/ . And instructions on How to set Up Your Weather Station are available at http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/meteorology/station-setup.html . We ask that you get your weather station set up as soon as possible, and then devise a method to have students take turn taking readings from the station - daily if possible, weekly at the least - and certainly for any day there is precipitation.
Upcoming LIVE Chats
This week's feature is the annual Weather Chat with the senior meteorologist from the National Weather Service, Mr. Todd Morris. Come learn about how the latest technology helps weather centers around the world track and predict weather - and what conditions can prevail that make weather prediction nearly IMPOSSIBLE (as has been true lately).
If you missed the Shipwreck's Chat - you will find it online - learn to use this great new online database to research Channel Shipwrecks ! Look in the Chat archive for Jan 17th.
Teachers - Learn How to Create Your OWN Internet Digs !!!
One of our teachers favorite online training sessions is How to Create your OWN Internet Dig ! We will walk you through suggestions for designing, researching, and building your own Dig. You can try it out in the Teachers Chat room, and then in early February we will invite all participants to install their own completed Digs for fellow teachers to try out online. Later in February we will turn over a day to each of you to install your own Dig and showcase it to all of our students ! Show us your stuff !!!
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