Campwide Briefings
UNITED
NATIONS DAY – October 24th. Do
your students know what the goals of the United Nations are?
This year, more than ever since World War II, understanding
the role of the UN is increasingly important. Camp Internet
is fortunate to have a past Assistant Secretary General of
The UN, and the original Chancellor of the UN’s University
of Peace in Costa Rica, available to answer student questions.
Dr. Robert Muller has worked diligently for World Peace for
over 55 years and this Thursday the 24th, on United
Nations Day, is being honored with a World Citizenship Award
from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
Send Questions to Camp Internet’s ‘Peacemaker Trail Guide’ If your student’s
have questions they would like to ask Dr. Muller about the
work of the UN, about prospects for World Peace, or other
related topics, please email the questions to camp@campinternet.net
so we can submit them to him. In the subject line, please
put For Dr. Muller. Dr. Muller’s books will be going out to
the winner’s of the Camp Internet Peace Poem Project this
week – Nightingale Middle School in Los Angeles and the American
School in Hong Kong. Congratulations!
You
can learn more about the United Nations at
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/index.html
And
see Dr. Muller’s curriculum and other resources at
The
Camp Internet Peace Poem Project is also online as a pdf at
http://www.campinternet.net/peacepoemproject/
THIS
WEEK ONLINE with Camp Internet
Keep
on writing and submitting your Halloween, Ancestor, and Saints
stories. This month we host a writing contest for multi-cultural
Halloween, All Souls Day, and All Saints Day celebrations.
The Campwide Field Reports Room will be open M-F 8am-3pm for
you to post student stories. A spooky (but no gruesome) ghost
story ? A loving tribute to a departed relative? Or a story
admiring a wonderful Saint ? A book report on one of the above
? Whatever religion your students observe, one of these story
assignments will be appropriate. Winning story earns their
class a Mark Twain storytellers CD ROM! Room will be open
through November 1st.
Family Night Event Ideas Your
fellow teachers are planning Family Nights tied into Camp
Internet. As a few examples of parent involvement activities
this Fall: a school in Los Angeles is planning a Peace Poem
Event at a local coffee house and another school in Ontario
is planning a Science Night about the Channel Islands. We will help support your events with online
activities so let us know anyway we can help you facilitate
online resources for parents.
SPECIAL
EVENTS – THE TWO IMPORTANT GROUP PROJECTS are ready for ALL
Campers – we need your input this month!
- FIRST
- Post your SCHOOL INTRODUCTION (as a class or as individuals)
in the FIELD REPORT room for your Expedition track. Menu
to select your room from is at http://www.rain.org/campinternet/nfieldreports/ Tell us about your school, your community,
your class, and special projects you have planned for the
school year. This month we also invite reports on animal
sightings on campus – who visits or lives at your school
?
- THEN
- See the first GPS school project “Where is Your School?”
in Field Reports – GIS. There is a form to fill out to enter your site
data, and a way to then copy and paste that report into
the work room to share your findings with one another. You
don’t need to have GPS as there is an online lat/long calculator.
This event will be open all month and will add-in changes
Animal Sightings. Room for postings is at http://chat.rain.org/cgi-bin/nph-gis-fr
.
SEVEN NEW STORYBOOKS
ONLINE TO VISIT!!
Something
NEW this month – we invite you to try out the first early
reader Storybooks we are piloting. The first completed books
are in the Islands section under Chumash History and under
Storytelling. They are in English AND Spanish, so try it out
and let us know how you think this style and format will work
for younger readers, or ESL developing English skills. Send
feedback to camp@campinternet.net if you have comments to
offer.
You
can access the new bi-lingual Storybooks directly at
http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/expedition1/unit1B.html
http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/stories/
REMEMBER
to USE YOUR DIGS – these are excellent content and comprehension
exercises that can be made use of every week.
You
have DIGS open for student use in Islands, Backcountry, Southwest,
America’s Original Promise and GIS – use them any day, M-F,
anytime 8am-3pm. These allow students to research one or more
questions, post answers – and – teachers can use these as
a graded assignment by printing the results each Monday afternoon.