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for the week of Oct. 23 Oct. 27, 2000
Science - Wooly Mammoth Wrap Up
This is our last week of featuring the Pygmy Mammoths and we aim to have had your students well familiar with the online resources and to have had a chance to put together the mammoth skeleton kit. For a wrap up on the Pygmy Mammoths we will be hosting an online Mammoth Internet Dig this Friday the 27th all day in the student chat room. Please RSVP if you can join us by writing to camp@rain.org. 20-60 minutes is fine for getting the students into the chat room and through the exercise, more is fine if available. These Digs do not require advance preparation or study, but having familiarity with the subject allows them to progress more rapidly through the Digs. Classes just getting online for the first time are welcome to join this Dig as an introductory experience to the inter-activities we feature.
History and Reading - Chumash and Gabrielino Features Continue
Have you tried 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. Let us know how it works for you.
This week we continue to feature 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 .
Last Day for Reporters Wanted
Tuesday the 24th is the lat day to participate in the live version of the Reporters Wanted Project. Please have students prepare this project and enter it into the chat room Tuesday the 24th 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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