September 23-30

Theme: Meet the Chumash

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! – Reporters Wanted – get the scoop on the Lone Island of San Nicolas Island (the REAL story behind Island of the Blue Dolphins)

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.

This Week’s 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!