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Challenge Question #8, Grades 4 - 5
Date: Fri Apr 22 2005 - 23:40:03 EDT
Ms. Cathy Hesler Shaw Elementary - Grades 4 - 5 "Where in the world do you think our 10 Mystery Sites are located?
Mystery Class #1 Lome, Togo, Africa 6 Degrees North Latitude 1.5 Degrees East Longitude
Mystery Class #2 Geelong, Victoria, Australia 38.2 Degrees South Latitude 145 Degrees East Longitude
Mystery Class #3 Galway, County Galway, Ireland 53.25 Degrees North Latitude 9.05 Degrees West Longitude
Mystery Class #4 Dunneville, Ontario, Canada 43 Degrees North Latitude 79.2 Degrees West Longitude
Mystery Class #5 Russell, Northland Region, New Zealand 32.5 Degrees North Latitude 174.3 Degrees South Latitude
Mystery Class # 6 Bishkek, Kyrgystan, Asia 35 Degrees North Latitude 75.5 Degrees East Longitude
Mystery Class # 7 McMurdo Base, Antarctica 75.6 Degrees South Latitude 167.5 Degrees East Longitude
Mystery Class # 8 Wales, Alaska, USA 65 Degrees North Latitude 167 Degrees West Longitude
Mystery Class #9 Suva, Viti Levu, Fiji Islands 18.1 Degrees South Latitude 178.3 Degrees East Longitude
Mystery Class #10 Djupivogur, Iceland 64.5 Degrees North Latitude 14.5 Degrees West Longitude
Congratulate Ourselves! What can we say about the journey! I, for one, will be doing this again. The children, whether they know or not, have learned so much in a real-life, non lecture-like way. Some took to the bone and ran with it. Others got to the end and were afraid to commit to there findings. All, however, learned much about the flow of our planet and the cultures that comprise it. Even though they might not be ready to synthesize it now, they will retain it and call upon it wen needed, of that I am sure. I teach a low-socioeconomic, Gifted classroom in Tampa, Florida. Overall, this is the greatest connected response to a project I have seen from them yet. As a whole, they are very eager to learn whether all of the internet research and collation of data process they have learned has "paid off." Our fingers are crossed for accuracy, but even so, the journey was an "our place in the world" affirming project for them. Thank you. We will be finding places for the Mystery Classrooms
in 2006.
Received on Fri Apr 22 23:34:52 2005
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