Thank you to all who participated in our Mystery Class contest. We know that all of you worked very hard throughout the entire activity, and we consider all of you winners!
Now it's time to reveal the location of our classes and the winner of the contest. We hope you had fun trying to uncover their locations and we know you learned a great deal about collecting and interpreting data, longitude and latitude, photoperiod, and the effects of these elements on migratory species. Each Mystery Class has written their own introductions that follow this announcement in seperate messages
Here we go!
# 1 Fairbanks, Alaska, U.S.A. (64.83 N, 147.8 W)
# 2 Washington, DC, U.S.A. (38.83 N, 77.00 W)
# 3 Cape Town, South Africa (33.6 S, 18.47 E)
# 4 Cairo, Egypt (30.05 N, 31.283 E)
# 5 Adelaide, South Australia (34.77 S, 139.13 E)
# 6 Kamchatka, Russia (53.22 N, 158.93 E)
# 7 Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands (9.083 N, 167.3 E)
# 8 Ruakaka, New Zealand (35.9 S, 174.45 E)
# 9 Misawa, Japan (40.68 N, 141.4 E)
# 10 Angangueo, Mexico (19.6 N, 100.3 W)
And the winners...
FIRST PLACE CONGRATULATIONS:
Lynn Connell's Class:
Jenna, Eric, Hannah, Kent, Stephanie, Dani,
Adam, Jessica, Cari, Kate, Carley, and Abbi
lconnell@esu6.esu6.k12.ne.us
SECOND PLACE CONGRATULATIONS:
Ms. Babcock's fourth grade PALS group
Alden Terrace School, Valley Stream, NY (40N 73W)
Elmont Public Schools, Elmont, NY
k12elbac@vaxc.hofstra.edu
THIRD PLACE CONGRATULATIONS:
Tony Ward's Ajax High School class
Tony Ward (tward@spanit.com)
HONORABLE MENTION:
Mark Egger's class
(mark_egger@qmserver.lkwash.wednet.edu)
Dave Kust
Grade 4 Instructor
Breck School
Minneapolis, MN 55422
dakus@breck.pvt.k12.mn.us
Mr.Daly's third period math class
T. Daly (frankms@holli.com)
Lynda Eckert
Computer Lab Instructor
Oley Valley Elementary School
Oley, PA
Lynda Eckert (leckert@fast.net)
Mrs. Allen's 4th Grade Class
South Park Elementary
Pueblo, Colorado
Gary Trujillo (garyt@csn.net)
Fifth graders at East Hills International
Studies Academy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Susan Fineman (fineman@pps.pgh.pa.us)
Biology class from Lawrenceburg, TN
Christy Bottoms (cbottoms@sacam.OREN.ORTN.EDU)
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE CONTESTANTS--YOU DID A GREAT JOB!
How Contest Entries Were Ranked
* We ranked the contest entries first of all based on which class
had the most
correct answers giving both the correct COUNTRY and the correct CITY.
* The 1st place class gave 6 correct answers.
* After that, we looked at classes with 5 correct COUNTRY and CITY answers.
* There were 9 classes who had 5 correct answers, so we then had to look at the accuracy of their remaining answers to see which class did best.
* Five classes were more accurate because they identified all the countries correctly in their remaining answers.
* Then we ranked these five based on how close their remaining city guesses were.
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