October 14-21

 

Theme: Meet the Amazing Mammoths

 

SPECIAL FEATURES open this week – MORE Bi-lingual English/Spanish Storybooks are online. We have seven for you to pilot – in Islands History and Literature. And come online to explore those AMAZING MAMMOTHS! If you have the wooden mammoth kit from Camp – this is the time to integrate it with the online activities.

 

Number One Challenge – Post your SCHOOL INTRODUCTIONS

 

We invite you to explore the different features Camp Internet offers your classroom every week. This month we invite you to POST YOUR SCHOOL INTRODUCTION in your expedition tracks Field Report Room. Say hello to your fellow Campers by letting us know who and where you are. This officially launches your EXPEDITION explorations! And start posting reports on ANIMAL SIGHTINGS on your school grounds.

 

For the Islands track, your room is located at http://chat.rain.org/cgi-bin/nph-isl-fr

 

Number Two - DO THE DIG! – Those Amazing Mammoths is our feature this week – come learn about the really remarkable adaptation process these huge wooly beasts went through that ended with them at pygmy scale – and – how DID they get out to the islands?

 

We have special interactive features each week for you to explore – and the INTERNET DIGS are a great way to gain a grasp of the content we are featuring each week. Our goal is to see each student online every week, answering one or more of the DIG questions for their track. NEW THIS YEAR – you can get to your track’s Internet DIG right from your Expeditions’ main entry page – which we call a TRAILHEAD.

 

October 24^th is the FIRST FAMILY NIGHT – theme is: Family Film Night – let us know if you plan to participate and we’ll help get a flyer prepared to feature the film you elect to show to parents.

 

Ongoing Theme: Meet the Chumash

 

Start Exploring Native Peoples – visit the Islands history section and discover the variety of resources available about the Chumash living on the northern Channel Islands and mainland from San Luis Obispo in the north to Malibu in the south. We will feature Chumash studies for the next three weeks and invite you to have students read the online resources, and then do hands-on projects in the classroom – construct a Chumash village, model a Chumash ‘tomol’ canoe, design a doll-scale Chumash costume, do a chalk Rock Art project out on the school ground pavement in a large mural style, and read the Chumash stories we have online.

Linking in Other Subjects

Chumash history has related materials in the Literature section, and geography is important to provide the context for the Chumash world. The Rock Art Gallery and Basket Gallery also have good images about Chumash skills. Enjoy!