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TrailHead
Base Camp
Southwest
Briefing
Nov
26-30 2001
***
LIVE CHAT Tues 10am ***
NEW
– STUDENT PROJECT SHOWCASE
We
will be featuring your student’s Fall projects – text or image –
in the SOUTHWEST FIELD REPORT Room beginning December 1st
through the Holidays. Every student is welcome to prepare a Camp-related
book report, art work, a poem, or science findings. Teachers are
responsible for posting the student work to the chat room, for uploading
correctly-sized pictures, or to send us images to help you upload
them. Please monitor the quality of their work, and let’s see as
many student’s work as possible from each classroom. This will become
part of the permanent archive and they will be proud to showcase
their online work to their parents and friends. Room will be open
7am – 10pm for teacher postings of student work, and you can share
the postings with the students in class anytime. (In the Spring,
we will ask you to help them post their own work, so use this Fall
exercise as practice building up to their final report postings.)
LIVE
EVENTS this WEEK
CHAT
--- Our top event this week is the Indian Basket LIVE CHAT with
Jan Timbrook from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Jan
has been one of the tour guides when our teachers visit the Museum
each summer, and has a wealth of knowledge to share about Indian
baskets – who made them, how they were made, what they were made
of – and who is keeping the tradition alive today.
DIG
--- We are heading West in our features and will be learning about
the Desert Cahuilla, so drop into the DIG and let’s meet these resourceful
people.
FAMILY
NIGHT --- In Science, all tracks shift their attention to Astronomy
this time of year, and the LIVE Fall Family Night for November is
on Astronomy. Please invite the families to join us online from
home, school or library computers – and to invite grandparents in
distant cities to also join them online.
TEACHERS
–– IMPORTANT PROJECTS for EVERY TEACHER
Please
post an intro about your school in the FIELD REPORT Center -- open
Campwide Field Report 5-10pm, and add your introduction to those
already presented by your fellow teachers. Goal is to get as many
as possible online this week as we are now inviting students to
view them for the rest of the month, 8am-5pm. We will keep a link
to the posting instructions in the TEACHERS CHAT ROOM inside the
Teaches Web, but are also moving on to a the new GPS/GIS teacher
training activities.
LAUSD
teachers – if you want face-to-face technical support to accomplish
this project, you are welcome to attend the informal drop-in workshops
being held Nov 28, 3:15 to 5 at the LACOE Lab.
GPS
We
encourage our SW classes to get out their GPS units and start recording
any native plants on their school grounds. Record the name of the
plant, its location (latitude, longitude and elevation), and if
you have a digital camera, you can start taking pictures of the
plants. Build up your archive of native plants identification for
a project we will do together in the winter. Your GPS Lesson Plans
are due in December and will be based on using a local location
as the field study.
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Southwest Briefing
Nov 26-30 2001
*** LIVE CHAT Tues 10am ***
NEW – STUDENT PROJECT SHOWCASE
We will be featuring your student’s Fall projects – text or image – in the SOUTHWEST FIELD REPORT Room beginning December 1st through the Holidays. Every student is welcome to prepare a Camp-related book report, art work, a poem, or science findings. Teachers are responsible for posting the student work to the chat room, for uploading correctly-sized pictures, or to send us images to help you upload them. Please monitor the quality of their work, and let’s see as many student’s work as possible from each classroom. This will become part of the permanent archive and they will be proud to showcase their online work to their parents and friends. Room will be open 7am – 10pm for teacher postings of student work, and you can share the postings with the students in class anytime. (In the Spring, we will ask you to help them post their own work, so use this Fall exercise as practice building up to their final report postings.)
LIVE EVENTS this WEEK
CHAT --- Our top event this week is the Indian Basket LIVE CHAT with Jan Timbrook from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Jan has been one of the tour guides when our teachers visit the Museum each summer, and has a wealth of knowledge to share about Indian baskets – who made them, how they were made, what they were made of – and who is keeping the tradition alive today.
DIG --- We are heading West in our features and will be learning about the Desert Cahuilla, so drop into the DIG and let’s meet these resourceful people.
FAMILY NIGHT --- In Science, all tracks shift their attention to Astronomy this time of year, and the LIVE Fall Family Night for November is on Astronomy. Please invite the families to join us online from home, school or library computers – and to invite grandparents in distant cities to also join them online.
TEACHERS –– IMPORTANT PROJECTS for EVERY TEACHER
Please post an intro about your school in the FIELD REPORT Center -- open Campwide Field Report 5-10pm, and add your introduction to those already presented by your fellow teachers. Goal is to get as many as possible online this week as we are now inviting students to view them for the rest of the month, 8am-5pm. We will keep a link to the posting instructions in the TEACHERS CHAT ROOM inside the Teaches Web, but are also moving on to a the new GPS/GIS teacher training activities.
LAUSD teachers – if you want face-to-face technical support to accomplish this project, you are welcome to attend the informal drop-in workshops being held Nov 28, 3:15 to 5 at the LACOE Lab.
GPS
We encourage our SW classes to get out their GPS units and start recording any native plants on their school grounds. Record the name of the plant, its location (latitude, longitude and elevation), and if you have a digital camera, you can start taking pictures of the plants. Build up your archive of native plants identification for a project we will do together in the winter. Your GPS Lesson Plans are due in December and will be based on using a local location as the field study.
Camp01-sw mailing list
Camp01-sw@campinternet.net
http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/camp01-sw