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Ancient
Southwest Briefing
Dec
3-7 2001
NEW
- Student Project Showcase
Ancient
Southwest Field Reports WANTED !
What
did your students do in class or on a field trip that complimented
their Southwest studies this Fall ? Did they build an Indian village
model of a pit house, kiva, or pueblo? Did they illustrate a Pangaea
Gazette? Make a rock art drawing, draw ancient pottery designs,
or study Indian baskets ? Paint an image of the life in the Ice
Age or of ancient astronomers? What ever your students worked on
this Fall that complimented their Camp learning activities – we
WELCOME YOU to share it with the entire Camp Internet student body.
Show us their work !
We
will be featuring all of your student’s Fall projects – text or
image – in the SOUTHWEST FIELD REPORT Room beginning December 4th
– 21st – so plan ahead for what your students will contribute. Every
student is welcome to prepare a 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.
DIRECT
LINK for posting is http://chat.rain.org/cgi-bin/nph-sw-fr
FEATURE
THIS WEEK
We
head out to the coast to learn about the Chumash and Gabrielino
who lived on the Channel Islands and in the mountains of the coastal
ranges. This is a great chance to sample the in-depth resources
available through the Channel Islands track on Camp, and integrate
those into your studies. The Dig will introduce these peoples to
your classroom.
Please
also visit the brand NEW Indian Basket Gallery available through
the Art section in your track – many baskets here include Pacific
Southwest tribal works of great beauty and engineering. If you missed
the Indian Basket Chat last week – do visit the read-only version
still in the TRAIL GUIDE CHATS / CAMPWIDE room to learn how and
why these wonderful baskets were made.
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.
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 January and will be based on using a local location as
the field study.
Ancient Southwest Briefing
Dec 3-7 2001
NEW - Student Project Showcase
Ancient Southwest Field Reports WANTED !
What did your students do in class or on a field trip that complimented their Southwest studies this Fall ? Did they build an Indian village model of a pit house, kiva, or pueblo? Did they illustrate a Pangaea Gazette? Make a rock art drawing, draw ancient pottery designs, or study Indian baskets ? Paint an image of the life in the Ice Age or of ancient astronomers? What ever your students worked on this Fall that complimented their Camp learning activities – we WELCOME YOU to share it with the entire Camp Internet student body. Show us their work !
We will be featuring all of your student’s Fall projects – text or image – in the SOUTHWEST FIELD REPORT Room beginning December 4th – 21st – so plan ahead for what your students will contribute. Every student is welcome to prepare a 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.
DIRECT LINK for posting is http://chat.rain.org/cgi-bin/nph-sw-fr
FEATURE THIS WEEK
We head out to the coast to learn about the Chumash and Gabrielino who lived on the Channel Islands and in the mountains of the coastal ranges. This is a great chance to sample the in-depth resources available through the Channel Islands track on Camp, and integrate those into your studies. The Dig will introduce these peoples to your classroom.
Please also visit the brand NEW Indian Basket Gallery available through the Art section in your track – many baskets here include Pacific Southwest tribal works of great beauty and engineering. If you missed the Indian Basket Chat last week – do visit the read-only version still in the TRAIL GUIDE CHATS / CAMPWIDE room to learn how and why these wonderful baskets were made.
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.
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 January and will be based on using a local location as the field study.