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for the week of Sept. 28 - Oct. 2
Expedition I. - Native American Studies - week 2
Online Activities
Be sure to keep watching for the addition of new photographs, paintings, and drawings that will be illustrating Expedition I. at all levels.
Your Expedition I. Trail Guides are also making articles available online to read, and are available for questions. See their information off the main intro screen for Expedition I.
Also being added are short interactive Challenges for each topic area,
some with multiple levels for more advanced students. These can be answered online, but it is more efficient to print out the questions - or read them aloud to the class, and then have them write their answers on paper first. Once they are satisfied with their answers, then have them enter their answers in the online boxes provided right inside the Challenge. It is important to be sure that each student - or each clan - identifies their personal or clan email in the Challenge header. We are testing getting the answers automatically sent back to their own email boxes - or Clan box - so they have a personal response that is educational. To try out an interactive Challenge, go to the Island of the Blue Dolphins quiz. Others are being added to each topic area over the next two weeks. These are in addition to the important Passport questions they need to be researching and answering. The Teacher’s listserv will receive a document with the answers to the Passport questions during each Expedition.
Have everyone log on at http://pueblo.rain.org to pick up
email and listserv postings several times a week.
Chat room - be sure to try this out with a general introductory message so
you see how it works. Upcoming chats are
October 1st - all day drop in chat with the Camp Directors and special guests. This is your trial run with the students to get them familiar to a live chat with interactive dialog. Have the students compose a few questions about Native American prehistory in the Channel region ahead of time and then post them using their class or Clan names.
Upcoming : October 8th - Expedition I. featured
Trail Guide Chat, 10am-12 noon. This is the first Official Camp
Chat with noted Trail Guides. You are not expected to be online for the full two hours, but drop-in for at least half an hour, a full hour if possible. The featured topics will be : San Clemente Island Archeology, Chumash Rock Art, and general Channel Island information. If your class has created any art work during the Expedition, please try to get it to us BEFORE the chat. Then we can scan it, send you the URL where we post it online, and then when you ask a question of the Trail Guides, you can attach the images as part of your presence during the chat. You can see in the chat room now how images are posted along with words.
Hands-on materials
About the abalone shell and acorns provided in your Expedition Crate. Please be sure to have the students handle these individually - they are hands on compliments to the online activities. There are questions about them posted online that require the students to handle the shell and acorns in order to answer the Challenge.
Since one of our Trail Guides is the President of the American Rock Art Research Association, it is an excellent opportunity to have the students study the rock art images that will be posted online, and then learn to understand the images they are seeing as representations of cultural beliefs and reflections of the natural environment.
Use not only the online resources on Rock Art that we are including in the Expedition, but also visit Bill Hyder’s links of his Trail Guide area. Then provided students with the materials to replicate the rock art images. Craft paper, or white paper, crayons - brick red, white, black, yellow ochre, gray - will be good approximations of the actual pigments. And once the forms are outlines, coloring them on a slightly rough surface ( maybe the floor ) will add texture so the image will feel more like it is on sandstone. We certainly welcome you to send in the best works so we can post them online. And then you can use them to post along with questions the students may have about the actual rock art sit
Questions ? write to camp@rain.org
or, post to the listserv from here.
Camp Counselor Susan Barkdoll is available in your region as well, let her know if you need hands-on help at your site - write to susanb@rain.org. She will be visiting your classrooms to assist with hands-on instruction and training through out the year. And if you have a user name or password problem, Gregg Black is available at RAIN to help you - 1-800-889-2823, or help@rain.org. This document is also being posted to the listsesrv
Saturday Camp Internet Teachers Workshops
The Camp is interested in making educators available to you for special Saturday workshops during the school year.
Let us know which of these topics you would like to attend a workshop to learn more about :
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