From Camp to Community

Type of Resource: Research Resources, Online Activities, Virtual Tour
Free or Fee: Fee
Computer Needs: Flash, Quicktime
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This site is comprehensive and combines archives and multimedia in its presentation about logging life and camps. The topics covered provide a whole picture of the logging experience. There are audio components and Quictime 3D capabilities to tour camp rooms.

Description:

From Camp to Community offers information, video clips, 3D tours of a logging camp, maps, stories, images and interactive activities to learn about logging in the Cowichan Forest on Vancouver Island, Canada, in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Search the archives to find images and information. Learn about life in the camps, the communities that developed, the men that worked as loggers and the work that they did.

Possible uses:

Teachers can use this site as a resource for teaching about early logging life and share relevant pages, images and activities with students. There are many topics to learn about and discuss - the emergence of the steam engine and chain saws; women at the camps; children at the camps; First Nation people; environmental issues, etc. Students can explore the site at the start of a study to create questions and some background knowledge and then revisit the site for a more in-depth study. Students can use this site as a research resource.

Related Resources:

K-3, 4-5, 6-8

Languages : French
Social Studies : History
Social Studies : Geography
Social Studies : Cultures
Multilingual : English/French

Research Resources, Online Activities, Virtual Tour

Flash, Quicktime