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for the week of February 19 - February 23, 2001
Highlights :
STUDENTS : Pirates Dig this Week ! plus Treasure Island ! Marine Studies ! Painted Cave ! And A Remarkable President!
LIVE TRAIL GUIDE CHAT : Meet Rangers from the California State Parks on Tuesday February 20th 9-11am. Lead by Wes Chapin, who met a group of our teachers at the Painted Cave Monument one morning last summer, this Chat will introduce students to the natural and historic resources being preserved by California State Parks in the Channel Islands region. From the cove where pirates landed at Refugio, to the Presidio that out smarted these scoundrels, to the magical Painted Cave created by the Chumash up in the mountains, State Parks are preserving our heritage.
PRESIDENTS DAY FEATURE : Learn about the presidential camping trip that began the National Parks effort in California. When Teddy Roosevelt invited John Muir to slip off on a private camping trip, American policy for preserving our natural heritage made a great leap forwards. Read about this amazing event in our California Backcountry section at http://www.rain.org/campinternet/backcountry/humanities/muir-camping-trip.html .
PIRATE DIG! Open all week in the Student Dig room
TEACHERS ONLY - How to Create Your Own Internet Dig - try out the sample Dig in the Teacher's Chat room and then - create your own ! Guided steps provided to empower every teacher to create their own interactive Dig. We will showcase your work next month, so we ask EVERY TEACHER to test out a Dig in the Chat Room this month to perfect your end product. Imagine yourself, as a teacher, building links to resources from the Internet to tell your students a story that gives them insight into the life and times of people from long ago. What will you tell them ? what will you show them ? What will you ask them ? What will they Learn ? this is the FUN of creating your OWN Internet Dig! Try it out in the teacher's chat room this week !!!
This Week in Channel Island Region History
Live Dig all week in Student Dig room !
Ahoy Mateys - let's get to know those fierce Channel Pirates!! Start studying online at http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/expedition2/pirates.html . And then join us for a live DIG all week in the Student Dig room. Learn why there were Pirates in the Channel - what WERE they after ? Learn where they hid out .. and who their fearless and sometimes barbaric leaders were. What is the difference between a pirate and a privateer? Next week will host a Pirate
In reading we invite you to examine the complimentary section on Robert Louis Stevenson and Treasure Island. The tale of what brought Robert Louis Stevenson to California is an amazing love story .. and that he formed his ideas for the Treasure Island masterpiece here speaks much of his time in California. This section has interesting links to pirate resources, and to the full text of Treasure Island online. We also recommend showing one of the suggested Treasure Island films to your class if you do not have printed text available for each student. http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/culture/treasure-island-channel.html
And in the Student Dig this week we have a four part story - and Story One guides students to discover the hopes and hardships of the brave souls who sailed from the east to the west coast at the beginning of the gold rush - passing through the channel waters on their way.
Marine Studies
Along with the ongoing weather studies Camp hosts all winter, we are also starting our feature on Marie Studies and that trail begins at http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/classes/sea.html . Learn about life under the sea, along the shore, and explore an ecosystem rarely seen by the human eye.
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