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for the week of October 2-6, 2000
Channel Islands Briefing 06
10-9-00 - 10-13-00
Science - Paleontology and Wooly Mammoth Time !
What IS paleontology ? let your students learn at 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 - Chumash features continue
As you venture further into our library of resources about the Chumash this week, please be sure to also look in the Reading section for the Rainbow Bridge story and resources. You have a new version of the story in book form in your crate - and - a real rainbow bridge ribbon to play the Rainbow Bridge Game. Instructions for how to play the game are at http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/culture/rainbow-bridge-activies2.html
LIVE Inter-activity - Student Reporters
Please have students prepare this project and enter it into the chat room Tuesday the 10th any time all day. We will be live with you 9-11am.
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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