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Challenge question #5

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Mystery Class #1 - We think that this class lives in northeastern Canada or
Alaska or Greenland. We had a hard time with the clues! We know that
caribou live in these areas and we think that the Atlantic Ocean is the
richest ocean in the world. From Erin Neuroth and Hannah Gravier

Mystery Class #3 - We think this class is in Christchurch, New Zealand at
43 S, 172.5 E. From Shayla Workman and Richard Bolton.

Mystery Class #4 - This class lives in Brazil somewhere because it's in the
southern hemisphere, close to the Equator. Three possibilities are
Guayaquil, Manaus or Belem. This was the best I could do from Cheri
Wilson.

Mystery Class #5 - I think my mystery class is somewhere in Asia, like
Siberia from Mat Gardner.

Mystery Class #6 - We think our class is on Ross Island in Antarctica
because their days are getting shorter so they are in the southern
hemisphere and all the rest of the clues fit. From Ayla Sanderson and Mike
Gunter

Mystery Class #7 - Hi! We think mystery class #7 is in New Westminster,
British Columbia, Canada at 44 degrees N Latitude and 127 degrees W
longitude. From Moorea Agnoli and Autumn Hancock.

Mystery Class #8 - My graph led me to believe that the mystery class was in
the southern hemisphere. Clue one told that people there had only seen
snow twice in the last 35 years so this told me that the place had to be
somewhat near the Equator.
Clue two said that they had 11 official languages. This made me
think that maybe the people were separated for long periods of time and did
not get to know the other languages well enough to establish one main one.
Clue three listed the seasons in one of their local languages. The
language that was listed was Dutch, because my mother is from the
Netherlands. From all of this I believe that this class is somewhere in
Indonesia. From Yana Gilpatrick.

Mystery Class #9 - I think this class is in Ukraine because it has two huge
rivers that divide the country into three sections. It lost most of its
country in 1920 to Poland and in 1945, World War II took a huge toll on the
Ukraine which could cause the population to be low. So I think this class
lives in the city of Sumy, Ukraine at 51 E, 34 N. From Madeline Bills.

Mystery Class # 10 - I think this class lives somewhere in Africa. that's
all I could figure out from Tia Tonne.

Our class had a great time working on this project. It is a
wonderful research project and really made my students think and work. It
also made me aware of the great need for resource materials my classroom
and school has. We used encyclopedias, atlases, CD ROM atlases, World Fact
Finder. I am interested to know what resources other classes used and how
much class time was spent on this activity. My class spent a total of
about 3 class periods (50 min.) on it.

Louann Talbert

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