Mystery Class Update: May 3, 2002 Today's Report Includes: "Where In The World" Are They? A Special Note From Journey North Coming Next Week: Meet Your New Friends Hear Ye! Hear Ye! A Call For Mystery Sites in 2003 How Contest Entries Were Ranked Announcing the Mystery Class Contest Results! Reminder: Coming Next Week! Year-End Evaluation: Please Share Your Thoughts! "Where In The World" Are They? Here's the answer you've been waiting for! Click on map for larger view The 10 Mystery Classes for 2002 Are: Introducing Location Latitude Longitude Mystery Class # 1 Homer, Alaska, US 59.642 N 151.548 W Mystery Class # 2 South Pole, Antarctica 90.000 S 172.600 E * Mystery Class # 3 San Juan, Puerto Rico 18.456 N 66.071 W Mystery Class # 4 Lima, Peru 12.100 S 77.050 W Mystery Class # 5 Mangilao, Guam 13.250 N 144.450 E Mystery Class # 6 Thessaloniki, Greece 40.633 N 22.966 E Mystery Class # 7 Khumjung, Nepal 27.833 N 86.733 E Mystery Class # 8 Froya Island, Norway 63.733 N 8.833 E Mystery Class # 9 San Ignacio, Belize 17.250 N 89.000 W Mystery Class # 10 Kigoma, Tanzania 4.866 S 29.633 E * Longitude for MC #2 is "your choice" since all longitude lines converge at the pole. The given 172.600 E is borrowed from New Zealand because logistics operations for the Pole come through Christchurch. A Special Note From Journey North Hear Ye! Hear Ye! A Call For Mystery Sites in 2003! Help! Know anyone in far and distant places that can keep a secret? We're looking for classrooms outside of North America that would like to be one of the 10 secret Mystery Classes in 2003! PLEASE CONTACT: our feedback form Congratulations from everyone at Journey North to all of you who participated in the Mystery Class Activity this year! We know that you worked very hard on your answers. And no matter how many Mystery Sites you correctly identified, you should be very proud of yourselves--this is a very challenging activity! Especially in a year like this, when the number of entries that we received surpassed our previous record by 20 percent! Competition was intense, and with the larger number of entries came a larger number of correct answers. So give yourself a high five! What an accomplishment for all of you to go from graphing sunrise and sunset data beginning 11 weeks ago, to figuring out approximate longitude, to determining a real location somewhere in the world. You ALL did a fantastic job! Coming Next Week: Meet Your New Friends Be sure to come back next week when you'll finally be able to "meet" your new (and not so secret anymore) Mystery Friends! Just like you, they all worked very hard for this activity. They studied and prepared their clues and pictures carefully, and had to keep a secret for all this time! So they'll be really happy to finally meet you next week. They'll send their personal greetings, photos and some tasty treats for you too! May 10: Come back and Meet the 10 Mystery Sites! 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 with both the correct CITY/TOWN/VILLAGE and the correct COUNTRY. Special Notes: For MC #2, South Pole Antarctica, we also accepted answers indicating "South Pole Station" or "Amundsen Scott Station". For MC #3, the Mystery Class' school is located in the suburb of San Juan known as "Condado", but the specific clues focused on San Juan, so we accepted answers indicating San Juan as the city. For MC #5, Mangilao, Guam, the clues were specifically directed to the individual village of Mangilao (which is not a suburb of Agana or Hagatna), so other nearby villages were not accepted as correct. For MC #8, giving the answer Froya Island for the city was sufficient, but we also accepted individual cities on Froya Island as correct (i.e. Sistranda, Titran or Flatval) For MC # 10, Kigoma, Tanzania, we also accepted the city name Ujiji as correct. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL CONTESTANTS--You Did a Great Job! Announcing the Mystery Class Contest Results! (Hey, did you skip the beginning of this report and peek already? Well, once you read the results below, be sure to go back up to the beginning of this report for important messages!) Now at long last, here are the entries with the highest number of correct answers, listed by Grade Level: GRADE 2 ( 3 classroom entries) A Two-Way Tie with 10 correct answers each: Ms. Janet Carstens' Class; and Mrs. Lori Satterstrum and Mrs. Garrison-Bruden's class, both from Webster Stanley Elementary School in Oshkosh, WI GRADE 3 ( 13 classroom entries) A Two-Way Tie with 10 correct answers each: Miss Allison Bailey's class at Citrus Elementary School, Vero Beach, FL Ms. Saundra McDonald's class at McGillis JCC School in Salt Lake City, UT GRADE 4 ( 41 classroom entries) The Fourth Graders Went Wild! 8 Classrooms Got All 10 Answers Correct! Mrs. Knaeble's Friday Math Class, Cedar Ridge Elementary in Eden Prairie, MN Ms. Pat Gaines' Class at Belle Sherman School, Ithaca, NY Mrs. Charlotte Layne's Class at Cider Mill School, Wilton, CT Mrs. Ann Young's Class, also at Cider Mill School, Wilton, CT Ms. Karen Pape's Class at Breck School in Minneapolis, MN Ms. K. Allen's Class in Colorado Mrs. Megan Clark's Class, also at Cider Mill School, Wilton, CT The Fourth Grade Class at Townshend Elementary School GRADE 5 (43 classroom entries) Fantastic Grade Five Was Really Alive! This grade had 7 classrooms answering all 10 questions correctly! Mr. McElroy's Class at South Suburban Montessori in Brecksville, OH Miss Snow's Class at Bibich Elementary in Dyer, IN Mr. Koontz and Mrs. Daniels' Class at N. Albany Elem. in Albany, OR Mrs. Wanda Voelker's Class at Pymatuning Valley Middle School in Andover, OH Mrs. Gatto's Class at Bibich Elementary in Dyer, IN Ms. Sharon Huntzinger's Class at Warner Elementary in Spring Arbor, MI Mr. Andrew Gibbs' Class also at Warner Elementary in Spring Arbor, MI GRADE 6 ( 59 classroom entries) Super Grade Six had the most submissions of all grades, and 6 classes had all 10 answers correct! Mr. Louis Falcone's Class at Morse Pond School, Falmouth, MA Ms. Anna Hartle's Bell 4 Class at Cincinnati Country Day School Ms. Martha Butler's Class at Oak Lane Day School Ms. Kathy Franda's Timster Homeschool Mrs. Silvestro's Yellow Class at Bedford Middle School, Westport, CT Mrs. Silvestro's Red Class at Bedford Middle School, Westport, CT GRADE 7 (36 classroom entries) A Six-Way Tie with all 10 answers correct! Mr. Amlung's Bell 2 Class at Mariemont School Ms. Hough and Ms. Kloewer's Class, York Middle School, York, NE Ms. Susan Fineman's Class at Morningside School, Pittsburgh, PA Ms. Trubelhorn's Class at St.John's Greek Orthodox, Tampa, FL Ms. Cerullo's Periods 1 & 7 Classes, Joyce Middle School, Woburn MA Ms. Mackay-Atha's Seventh Grade Science, Georgetown Day School,Washington, DC. GRADE 8 ( 23 classroom entries, ) A Two-Way Tie! (10 answers correct ) Mr. Iverson's Burgundy Team, Central Middle School, Eden Prairie, MN Ms. Nancy Hurst's Hearthside Homeschool Academy GRADE 10 ( 2 classroom entries) A Tie with both having 7 correct answers: Mr. Amlung's Bell 8 Class, Mariemont School Mr. Czaplewski's 3rd Hour Class in WI GRADE 11 ( 1 classroom entry, 5 correct answers) Dr. Hogan-Tinsman's Class at The Learning Center, Georgetown, DE GRADE 12 (4 classroom entries) Mr. Amlung's Bell 4 Class at Mariemont School (9 correct answers) GRADE 13 ( 1 classroom entries, 9 correct answers ) Mr. Ward's OAC World Issues Class at Ajax HS, Ontario, Canada Reminder: Be sure to come back next week to "meet" and learn more about your new Mystery Friends! Year-End Evaluation: Please Share Your Thoughts! Please take a few minutes to share your suggestions and comments in our Year-End Evaluation Form below. The information you provide at the end of each year is the single most important tool used to guide our planning. Journey North Year End Evaluation Please share your thoughts The FINAL Mystery Class Update Will be Posted on May 10, 2002 Copyright 2002 Journey North. All Rights Reserved. Please send all questions, comments, and suggestions to our feedback form