Student Learning
Camp teachers are using our online program and in-class projects to motivate all levels of learners. At-risk to GATE, students LOVE Camp Internet and are eager to get online, learn, and develop their own projects that bring their online learning to life in the classroom and out in their community. Students receive the most value from the Camp program when in use 1-2 hours a week for in-class and homework assignments. The varied curriculum themes follow State standards and frameworks, and also serve as an excellent technology elective. Teachers set up a corner in the classroom as their Camp Internet Outpost with posters and learning materials, and of course - computers! Students can participate any time of the day or week, and once a year Community Nights bring the families in to the classroom for multi-generation technology learning.
All levels and types
of students enjoy the learning technology challenges presented by the
Camp program. They are challenged to read, think and respond; to study,
consider and create; and to link lessons from the past to the issues of
the present. GATE programs are using the resources in early morning and
afterschool classes; teachers with bi-lingual students appreciate Camp's
emphasis on the multi-cultural heritage of the American West as a means
to motivate learning; at-risk students are seeing the empowerment technology
offers them -and- enjoy related year end field trips that can be a motivating
reward for completing their Camp passports. Some schools run the Camp
program as their afterschool enrichment activity, others form teacher
collaboration across subjects. At the elementary level, the combination
of history, reading, science, art, social studies and math provides year
round activities for a self-contained classroom. Flexible for 4th-12th
grade settings.