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Camp Internet Channel Islands Teacher Briefing
Week of January 24-28, 2000
This weeks LIVE feature : Weather Chat on Wednesday January 26th
-plus- a Live chat with a Pirate/Privateer expert from El Presidio State Park on Friday January 28th.
Pirate and Privateers
This week we wrap up our time learning about the Pirates and Privateers of the California Channel Waters. To prepare for the live chat with good pirate questions, be sure students at a minimum have read the Outwitting Pirates historical account about Bouchard, and show them the historical re-enactments that take place in San Juan Capistrano each year ( see lower area of Treasure Island page in the reading section ).
For classes who were able to read or watch Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, please remember to send us their answers to the Treasure Island Challenge that is a reading/viewing comprehension project.
On Friday January 28th, we are pleased to have a pirate history expert from El Presidio State Park, Patrick O'Doud, coming online with us from 9am-11am. Mr. O'Doud recently curated an exhibit on Bouchard, and has interesting source materials to share.
Weather Section
Be sure to begin taking part in the Camp Internet Weather Project. Goto the Weather Project Web and begin entering your reports and exploring the resources.
Now that we are starting to get some more weather moving in, it is an ideal time to get those weather stations in place. Since you have to screw it to a pole of some sort, we do find a -1" square stake in a coffee can of gravel works fine and is the most flexible. If you decorate yours with any unique designs - or have very proud and active weather reporters - please send us a photo of the kids using it for our field report gallery. The GIS mapping database is being built, and will become available to chart reports on, so now is the time to get students assigned to serve as the weather monitors.
Special Events
This week we have the National Weather Service Chat live with Todd Morris, a senior meteorologist. CalTech recently released findings about the water temperatures in the Pacific that are on an unusual cycle, and this is a great opportunity to ask a weather expert what this all means for our own region. Mr. Morris will be online 10am-12noon on Wednesday January 26th. Please reserve by writing to camp@rain.org
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