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Introduction for Teachers
Camp Internet's 'Explore the California Channel Islands' is an online learning environment introducing engaging and productive technology applications for classrooms, afterschool programs, libraries, or home schooling. The Camp designs each year-long, interactive learning experience as an 'Expedition', with you, the teacher, serving as the 'Expedition Leader', from your classroom, the 'Expedition Outpost'. The Camp provides teachers with a project management guide, materials for student activities, and a Camp Internet Passport workbook for every student. Recommended grades are 4th-12tth
Daily Program Track
The multi-disciplinary track.
Designed for elementary and Middle School classrooms where teachers have the flexibility to offer the program on a daily basis, integrating social science, earth science, living science and English literature into a year round program.
The Social Science Camp once-a-week track specifically compliments 4th grade California History, 5th grade Westward Expansion, 8th grade U.S. History Growth and Conflict, and 9th grade History- Social Science electives.
The Earth and Living Science once to twice a week track compliments elementary, middle and high school science subject areas in astronomy, geology, natural resources, oceanography, meteorology, marine biology, terrestrial biology, and ecosystems.
The English Literature track offers reading and analysis, complimented by film studies, for all grades on a weekly basis in the classroom with reading activities for home assignments.
Multi-Media
The Camp is designed to offer you new online text, graphics, and video, complimented by CD ROM and print educational materials. It also offers effective technology management techniques and year long technical support to ensure that, as an educator, you enjoy participating in this multi-disciplinary learning environment. Camp Internet programs can enhance your existing curriculum, or it can be used to introduce a new curriculum unit into your classroom on a daily or weekly basis.
Scalability
Explore the California Channel Islands is designed to be scalable to meet your needs - one hour a day for the full school year, or one to two hours a week as a special learning activity or lab project. There is enough material - and an abundance of reference sources - from which to build a year round, daily learning activity program. There is also a concentrated effort to streamline the basic information so that it can serve students with only an hour a week to participate in the classroom, in the computer lab, at their library, or in an afterschool program. It is your choice as the teacher, the Camp Internet Expedition Leader.
The number of study units and culminating 'Challenges' you assign is up to you, and can be adapted to the interests and capabilities of your students. We strongly encourage at a very minimum that students participate in the main level web and mail-in activities to help them develop an online peer group where student-to-student education can take place. The Challenge Incentives are suggested rewards for student participation, can be tailored to correspond to the assignments you elect, and many can be printed out on plain paper for inexpensive distribution to the students at the culmination of a study unit.
Goal
The goal of the program - whether you commit to one hour a week or one hour every day - is to share the wonder of the Channel Island region with your students, to awaken their minds to scientific and historical inquiry, and to give them intellectual tools with which to make better use of online technology and computers.
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