Reminder:
Mystery Class Begins on Monday, January 30, 2006
Today's
Report Includes:
- World Citizens Needed to Solve International Mystery
- Mystery Class Begins Monday
- Teachers: Important! Plan Ahead and Mark your Calendars
- Teacher Tips--Mystery Class Advice from the Pros
World Citizens Needed to Solve International Mystery
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Calling all
emissaries of inquiry. Ten secret Mystery Classes have gone deep undercover
around the globe. In fact, they're so hidden that their location might
never be located again--that is, unless YOU join together as citizens
of world to find them. You'll connect, collaborate and compete to solve
this international mystery.
(How secret are the locations? They're so top secret that details of their
whereabouts are not even known here at Journey North--except in the minds
of one or two people, and they're not talking!)
There's no time to delay. The hunt begins Monday, and you'll only have eleven weeks of sleuthing before you'll be asked to solve THE mystery:
"Where in the World Do You Think Our Ten Secret Mystery Classes are Located?"
Mystery Class Begins Monday
Your first step in this year's Mystery Class happens January 30th. On that Monday, check your local newspaper and retrieve your town's sunrise and sunset times for that date. Then be sure to record these times for your hometown on a Mystery Class Datasheet.
Just four days later, on Friday, February 3rd, we will post the first sunrise/sunset data for ten secret Mystery Classes. Be sure to record this Sunrise/Sunset data on the Mystery Class Datasheets too.
In the weeks that follow, continue to record your own local sunrise/sunset data every Monday, and the secret Mystery Classes' sunrise/sunset data every Friday, and be sure to graph photoperiod changes too. As you enter the home stretch after 11 weeks, be ready to use all that you've discovered to unlock the secret of their concealed locations. The job is challenging, but the payoff is huge.
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Note to Teachers: Important--Plan Ahead and Mark Your Calendars
Here's the 2006 Mystery Class Schedule with the Deadlines that must be followed by everyone (no exceptions). Please be sure to mark down these deadlines and plan ahead, so you and your students know what to expect from Journey North.
Mystery
Class Calendar 2006 |
| February 3- April 14: | Each Friday, Sunrise/Sunset Times are posted for the ten Mystery Sites. |
| March 10: | The "Longitude Clue" is posted. |
| March 17, 24 & 31, April 7 & 14 | Interdisciplinary clues from the Mystery Sites are posted each week. (Please Note--out of fairness to all participants, we will only post the clues on their scheduled dates.) |
| April 21: Deadline for Your Answers! | No
late entries will be accepted (out of fairness to all participants,
no exceptions.) |
| April 28: | Mystery Sites Revealed! |
| May 5: | Meet Your Mystery Friends! |
Teacher Tips--Get Mystery Class Advice From the Pros!
Before you get started, be sure to visit the Teacher Tip page. Get helpful tips, advice, and suggestions from veteran Journey North teachers on organizing your class, calculating photoperiod, graphing and much more:
- Teacher
Tips--Mystery Class
- Share your ideas too. We always welcome insights from practicing Journey North teachers. Write to our: feedback form
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