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for the week of January 8-12, 2001
Highlights :
*Early California Family Night Chat with El Presidio State Park on Thursday Jan. 11, 7-8pm. Please prepare questions in advance and email them to camp@rain.org. *Teacher and/or Librarian Camp Literature Tour in the Teachers Chat Room all week *Art projects - new sketch pad assignments *Alta California program - we begin studying the Spanish and Mexican eras * Science projects - set up your weather station
New This Week in Channel Island Region History
In December we featured the arrival of the European Explorers at this URL http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/expedition2/explorers.html . As soon as you are ready to move on to the early settlement period at http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/missons/ where we are ready to enter the Mission and Rancho Eras. Our distinguished Trail Guide this week is Dr. Jackman from El Presidio State Park and he is a published author in the field of pre-statehood life in California.
Meteorology
You will find our weather section under Science at this link http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/meteorology/ . And instructions on How to set Up Your Weather Station are available at http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/meteorology/station-setup.html . We ask that you get your weather station set up as soon as possible, and then devise a method to have students take turn taking readings from the station - daily if possible, weekly at the least - and certainly for any day there is precipitation. Camp has hired a new GIS specialist who will begin working on a weather database and map in February, so we plan to gather weather information from classrooms January-April. We will also have the annual live TRAIL GUIDE chat with a national meteorologist later this month so stay tuned. There are amazing weather stories about the Channel Islands also available for your students to learn about online all month long.
Upcoming LIVE Chat
This week our LIVE chat event is with Dr. Jackman from El Presidio and we have already sent out the invitation that you can print and send home to families - and bring your own family online too ! There are some great pirate stories to be told Also watch the main Camp homepage for a link to the same flyer that can be printed out. Can you guess what was the most asked for item in the early California ports ? Thursday January 11th, 7-8pm - do send questions from students in advance who will not be able to attend the evening session.
Teacher and Librarian Literature Tour
For the next two weeks of online teacher training, we ask EVERY TEACHER to come into the Teacher's Chat room and take the Camp literature tour. If you have a school librarian, please invite them to also take the tour. They can access it by using the private adult-only log in of campdemo and the password islbcsw. If your school would like to participate in a grant application to the State Library to bring more camp and reading resources to your school, please send an email to camp@rain.org or note your interest in the chat room. Technology Literacy can BUILD English Literacy !
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