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for the week of Oct.ober 16 - October 20
Science - Paleontology and Wooly Mammoth Time !
What IS paleontology ? How did those Mammoths get to the Islands ? We will be doing an online MAMMOTH DIG on October 27th so get your students ready. Start with http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/science/paleo-intro.html .
Then move on to one of the most popular parts of the Islands studies - the remarkable story of how the huge lumbering Imperial mammoths got out to the Channel Islands and slowly dwarfed over time to become little pygmy mammoths. Not only is that a great true science story - it also happened on other islands around the world. To learn more, take the students to http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/science/paleontology.html
Mammoth Kit Project - each of your Camp crates includes the wooden mammoth kit. We recommend popping the pieces out of their wooden forms. Placing them deep in a tray filled with sand, and have students use the paintbrushes to 'dig' out the 'bones' and then assemble them. Your mammoth will look great sitting on top of the Camp crate once completed.
History and Reading - Take the Chumash quiz - then - Gabrielino Features Begin
First, try out the NEW Chumash Quiz accessed from the main Native Lifeways page at http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/expedition1/unit1B.html . If you have students type your own email address in the upper box the server will send you a copy of their work including final score.
This week we then segue from Chumash to Gabrielino studies and feature the Southern Island and inland lifeways of these First Californians. Where did they come from ? When did they arrive? How did they get along with the Chumash ? Which islands did they occupy. Find the answers to these and more interesting questions at http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/gabrielinos1.html . And start enjoying the Gabrielino Coyote stories at http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/stories/gabrielinocoyote1.html .
LIVE Inter-activity - Student Reporters
Please have students prepare this project and enter it into the chat room Tuesday the 17th any time all day. Camp staff will play the role of the newspaper's 'editor' and help them get their facts straight so they can scoop the Sacramento writer.
Reporters Wanted : Lone Woman of San Nicolas Story
It has been 150 years ago this year since the first rescue party went out to search for the Lone Woman of San Nicolas to rescue her from her 18 year isolation on the most remote Channel Island. But all they saw as a ghostly apparition beckoning to them. It was in 1853 that she was finally found and rescued.
Here is a description of her discovery that was published by an anonymous writer in a Sacramento newspaper on October 13, 1853 - the same year she was found. After reading it, write us your own 100 word short newspaper feature ( non-fiction ) on the historical events surrounding her recovery in 1853, pretend you are a writer who has learned about this amazing event and is giving your town news of what has happened.
"The wild woman who was found on the island of San Nicolas about 70 miles from the coast, west of Santa Barbara, is now at the latter place and is looked upon as a curiosity. It is stated she has been some 18 to 20 years alone on the island. She existed on shell fish and the fat of the seal, and dressed in the skins and feathers of wild ducks, which she sewed together with sinews of the seal. She cannot speak any known language, is good-looking and about middle age. She seems to be contented in her new home among the good people of Santa Barbara. "
Each Camp student has a variety of resources at their disposal to learn about this legendary woman. Have them combine resources - film, book, online historical accounts - to write their own 100-or-more-word news article that would have been a description of her ordeal and rescue. Publication date would be October 12th, 1853 and they can 'scoop' the above Sacramento writer.
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