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Explore the California Channel Islands - Program Overview
Each week, and sometimes each day, the Camp will be featuring a new subject area with special activity. Campers subscribed to the Camp will see the same introductory information provided free to any Internet viewer - plus - they will have members-only access to the in-depth Challenge Activities, expert Trail Guide mentors, Firesides Chats, Live Video streaming, and Camp Library - and other members-only activities.
Participants will have the option to choose their level of interactivity with the program - they can join the Camp for daily learning activities, or once-a-week activities, or on a casual drop-in basis.
Classrooms and formal academic settings are encouraged to get involved in the in-depth daily learning activities, and to follow the study unit sequence as closely as possible inorder to share findings with other classrooms and meet Trail Guide mentors for their scheduled online presentations.
Libraries and afterschool programs may find once-a-week activities more suitable to the programs they host as informal education projects. Museums and science centers will probably find the once-a-week and drop-in programs beneficial programs.
Families can get involved at any level. It is your choice - whether you participate daily, weekly or on an occasional basis - there will be interesting learning opportunities ahead.
For group and classrooms settings : Program Leaders and Teachers working with larger groups of eight or more students will be given project management outlines that divide the group into manageable cluster in four groups. Each Challenge the student’s face will be undertaken by the group, their responses either made online on the web, or mailed-in for special projects. Each registered classroom will be given a web site where their findings, art work and science projects will be posted, with featured areas specific to each cluster of students with-in that classroom. Using the five email account provided, one will be for the teacher’s communication, the other four for the groups to participate.
Most study units include :
An introduction to the subject matter
A series of levels of short articles and images broken into thematic groups
Links to other resources internal to the web site
Links to resources external to the web site
Guidance for teachers and program leaders for managing special activities
A mail-in project where students send their art / poetry / science findings to the Camp and we post them online
Special activity lists for each student, and divided into groups for cooperative learning projects
Awards for student accomplishments at all levels
Chat rooms for teachers to talk to teachers
Chat rooms for students to talk to students
Chat rooms for parents to talk to parents
Suggestions boxes for special project ideas - or field trip suggestions
A basic visual aids package including a workbook
The option to order in-depth multi-media visual aids packages for hands-on learning
A Camp Counselor you can write to for support any time of the day or night