Mystery
Class Update: April 29, 2005
Today's
Report Includes:
- Congratulations from Journey North
- Don't Forget! Meet and Greet Next Week
- Where In The "World" Are They?
- How Contest Entries Were Ranked
- Announcing the Mystery Class Contest Results
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye! A Call for Mystery Sites in 2006
- Coming Next Week
- Year-End Evaluation: Please Share Your Thoughts!
Everyone at Journey North salutes all of you who participated in the Mystery Class Activity this year. Give yourself a double high five! No matter how many locations you correctly identified, you ALL learned so much, and you did an awesome job!
In addition to just learning a little more about these locations and people, you'll find out just how much of a challenge life can be in other lands. Indeed, several of the Mystery Sites actually have gone through major political and social upheaval very recently.
Where In The "World" Are They?
Drum roll, please.....the answer you've been waiting for!
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The 10 Mystery Classes for 2005 Are:
| Introducing |
Location |
Latitude |
Longitude |
| Mystery Class # 1 |
Lome,
Togo |
06.133 N |
01.217 E |
| Mystery Class # 2 |
Geelong,
Australia |
38.158
S |
144.350
E |
| Mystery Class # 3 |
Galway,
Ireland |
53.267
N |
09.050
W |
| Mystery Class # 4 |
Dunnville,
Canada |
42.900
N |
79.617
W |
| Mystery Class # 5 |
Russell,
New Zealand |
35.267
S |
174.117
E |
| Mystery Class # 6 |
Bishkek,
Krygyz Republic |
42.900
N |
74.600
E |
| Mystery Class # 7 |
McMurdo
Station, Antarctica |
77.850
S |
166.700
E |
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Mystery Class # 8 |
Wales,
Alaska USA |
65.608
N |
168.088
W |
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Mystery Class # 9 |
Suva,
Fiji |
18.133
S |
178.417
E |
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Mystery Class#10 |
Djupivogur,
Iceland |
64.650
N |
14.283
W |
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:
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For MC #5, in addition to the city name of Russell, we also accepted as correct the original name of the city "Kororareka".
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For MC #7, we only accepted as correct the specific designation of McMurdo Station, McMurdo Base, or some indication of the McMurdo location specifically, because the clues were indeed focused on that facility.
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For MC #8, we only accepted as correct answers indicating "Wales" as the city/village. Other answers referencing "Prince of Wales" were not accepted as correct because they were imprecise and could have meant other locations such as Prince of Wales Island, or a general geographic form such as the Cape Prince of Wales.
- May
6: Meet Your 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. The information readers provide is critical for planning new initiatives and for improving Journey North. We'd appreciate your help. THANK YOU!
Journey North
Year End Evaluation
Please share your thoughts
The FINAL Mystery Class Update Will Be Posted on May 6, 2005
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