Camp Internet News from the Director
August 28 - September 1, 2006

Timothy Tyndall - Director - Camp Internet

Weekly News from the Director of Camp Internet.

Welcome Back To School!

As part of the Camp Internet distance learning Community you have access to resources, activities and Camp Teacher help throughout the year.

Full year Courses in Science, Writing, Reading, Math, American and World History are just part of what will be available to you.

And you can begin any of the courses anytime during the year and we will talor the schedle to fit yours.

Let's look at School Start Up.

Teacher's Web

Keeping records is an important part of any Classroom.

Goto our Forms and Printable Materials.

Now - let's look at the Course work for school startup this month:

Science
We will study Geography this month. Goto: Channel Islands Science to begin. Materials in english and spanish. Storybook format for K-3.

Goto: for California BackCountry Geography studies

Goto: for Ancient Southwest Geography studies.

You will find one very important theme running through through our Science courses. It is "the Scientific Method". Essential for all of the areas of science we will study this year.

Let's study the "Scientific Method" just a bit. Read your course materials at the Scientific Method study unit.

Assignment:
for Friday: Write 250 - 500 words describing what the Scientific Method is.

History
We will make a History Timeline and our first map to use throughout this years History studies.

Goto: History Class Start Up

Goto: to begin study of Native American Life on the Pacific Coast

Goto: to continue your study of Native American Culture and Life. Read the Introduction

Goto: for the third study unit this month. Read the Introduction to Ancient Southwest History to begin.

Assignment:
Prepare your first Timeline. Goto: for the Timeline Project assignment. This unit will also give you a world map to print out for use during the year.

and prepare your word list as assigned.

Reading
Writting, both technical and creative, will be part of our Language Arts studies. As we go through our reading assignments we will also have reviews which will allow us to practice writting in many forms.

Goto: Reading Class Start Up for your first writting assignmnet.



A new part of our Camp Internet course options this year is the Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution program.

Combining Conflict Resolution studies with an emphasis on application in the classroom with a more general Peace Studies course we explore the history, literature and culture of Peaceful Societies.

Go straight to the Peace Studies web

If you have any questions send them over to camp@campinternet.net