Mystery Class Update: May 7, 1999 Today's Report Includes: Today's The Day You've All Been Waiting For... Where In The World Are They? Announcing The Mystery Class Contest Winners How Contest Entries Were Ranked "And the Awards Go To..." Coming Next Week: Meet Your New Mystery Friends Please Share Your Thoughts Today's The Day You've All Been Waiting For... Thanks to all who participated in the Mystery Class contest. We know everyone worked very hard throughout this entire activity, and we consider all of you winners. Whether you submitted one guess or ten, and whether you are in third grade or twelfth grade, we were glad to have you in the Contest! We hope you had fun trying to uncover the ten secret locations and we hope you learned a great deal about collecting and interpreting data, latitude and longitude, photoperiod, GMT, and the effects of these elements on migratory species. After many weeks of supplying clues for you, your ten Mystery Friends have finally revealed their locations below. They have worked very hard all season and are looking forward to "meeting" you. Be sure to come back next week for their introductions and some photos too. Right now, though, we know what you REALLY want to know... Where In The World Are They? Click on the map to see a larger view The 10 Mystery Sites Are: Mystery Class City Country Latitude Longitude # 1 Saipan* Northern Mariana Islands 15.20 N 145.75 E # 2 Vestmannaeyjar, Heimaey or Westmann Islands* Iceland 63.45 N 20.26 W # 3 Cape Town South Africa 33.93 S 18.46 E # 4 Istanbul Turkey 41.00 N 29.00 E # 5 McMurdo Antarctica 77.85 S 166.70 E # 6 Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei Darussalam 04.91 N 114.91 E # 7 San Diego California U.S.A. 32.70 N 117.20 W # 8 Sao Paulo Brazil 23.53 S 46.61 W # 9 Killygordon,Crossroads,Ballybofey, or Lifford* Ireland 54.83 N 07.75 W # 10 Waimea (Kauai) Hawaii U.S.A. 22.00 N 159.75 W Announcing The Mystery Class Contest Winners! First, let us say Congratulations to ALL contestants--you did a Great Job! How Contest Entries Were Ranked We ranked the contest entries by grade level, so our first step was to separate the entries according to their grade levels. If the entry came from a mixed-grade classroom, we ranked the class according to the highest grade in the class. After that, we carefully reviewed each entry to see how many correct answers there were. The general judging rule we follow is that a correct answer must contain both the correct CITY and the correct COUNTRY. Special Notes: Under the CITY category, there were three specific Mystery Class locations where the correct city was judged on a slightly broader basis to be accurate and fair to everyone: For Mystery Class #1, we accepted the island name "Saipan" as a correct "city" because the entire island is very small. For Mystery Class #2, we accepted the island name of either "Vestmannaeyjar", "Westmann Islands" or "Heimaey" as a correct "city", again because this island location is also very small. For Mystery Class #9, which is a rural location between towns, we judged the city entry to be correct if it gave any one of the four towns near the location--Ballybofey, Crossroads, Killygordon or Lifford. (Of course, the correct country name for these locations was also still required.) Now, here are the entries with the highest number of correct answers, listed by grade level: "And the Awards Go To..." GRADE 3 (Nine classroom entries) A two-way tie! Mrs. Mangino's class (9 Correct answers) Ithaca, NY (bmangino@icsd.k12.ny.us) and Mrs. Harralson's Room 13 (9 Correct answers) Camino School, Camino, CA (jbharr@directcon.net) GRADE 4 (Nineteen classroom entries) Another two-way tie! Kathleen Allen's Class South Park Elementary School (10 correct answers) Pueblo, CO (cougar@csn.net) and Mr. Ensminger's Science and Social Studies Classes Germantown Elementary School, (10 correct answers) Germantown, TN (sisters2@bully.net) GRADE 5 (Seventeen classroom entries) Cindy Luchenbill's Class (9 correct answers) Duchesne Elementary, Florissant MO (cluchenbill@fergflor.k12.mo.us) GRADE 6 (Twenty-three classroom entries) A three-way tie! Sandi Anderson's Class (9 correct answers) Plymouth Middle School, Plymouth, MN, (sandiand@mneta.net) Anna Hartle's Class (9 correct answers) Bell 2, Global Connections Class, Country Day School, Cincinatti, OH (hartlea@ccds.cincinnati.oh.us) Dale Schmidt's Class (9 correct answers) Bath Middle School, Lima, OH (schmidd@bath.noacsc.org) GRADE 7 (Twenty-one classroom entries) Another two-way tie! Valerie Davis's Visionaries: Walkertown Career Academy (9 correct answers) Winston Salem, NC, (davisv@ibm.net) and Mrs. Kloewer's 7th grade science class York Middle School, (9 correct answers) York, NE, (gkloewer@esu6.esu6.k12.ne.us) GRADE 8 (Ten classroom entries) Mrs. Blair's Media Research class (10 correct answers) Nuttall Middle School, Robinson, IL, (cblair@rob.crwfrd.k12.il.us) GRADE 9 (Two classroom entries) Pam Randles's Class (6 correct answers) Haines High School, Haines, AK, (pam@MosquitoNet.com) GRADE 10 (Three classroom entries) Warren Prince's Class (8 correct answers) Middlefield Collegiate, Markham, Ontario, (wprince@home.com) GRADE 12 (One grade 12 entry, Two entries with no grade) Tony Ward's combined Grade 11 & 12 Advanced, Ajax High School, (10 correct answers) Durham District Board of Education, East of Toronto, Ontario at 43d53m N and 79d0m W, (tonyward@home.com) Coming Next Week! Be Sure To Come Back Next Week To "Meet" Your New Mystery Friends! This contest wouldn't have been possible without them! Please Share Your Thoughts Journey North Year End Evaluation Please share your thoughts The FINAL Mystery Class Update Will be Posted on May 14 1999. Copyright 1999 Journey North. All Rights Reserved. Please send all questions, comments, and suggestions to our feedback form