September 16-23

Number One Challenge – Post your SCHOOL INTRODUCTIONS

Greetings Campers – we invite you to start exploring 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!

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

Number Two - DO THE DIG!

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.

The ISLANDS DIG for this week and next is:

REPORTER’S WANTED – it is an exercise in reading a journalists 1850s publication of news of the discovery of the Lone Woman, and it is a challenge to the students to read the historical literature about her discovery and then to ‘rush to press’ to get their own synopsis of the story posted online to beat the 1850s reporter to publication. Our Campers become journalists in this exercise, research original historical documents – never before on the Internet – and write a very short description of this historical event and get it published online.

This DIG will be open Tuesday the 17^th – Monday the 30^th.

Linking in Other Subjects

We suggest combining the studies of the Lone Woman with a comparative literature/film project this month by showing Island of the Blue Dolphins. And if you have the books available, assigning the book as a reading project for the fall months. To compliment this American Literature emphasis, beginning the Chumash and Gabrielino history and social studies section is a great tie-in, and studying the geography of the Channel region is also a direct tie-in. mix and match as you need to begin developing an understanding of life in the Channel region during pre-history.