Summary
To participate you must send in your Four
Response Questions to Kidlink and subscribe to the Kidproj
listserv. All correspondence for the game will take place on the
Kidproj listserv. To subscribe
to Kidproj send a message to the listerv.
Address: listserv@listserv.nodak.edu
subject: Blank
Body: subscribe kidproj (your name)
Choose a Landmark any where in the world. Have your students research
facts concerning the landmark and compose nine interesting clues.
Three clues per week will be posted by the landmark moderator
to the Kidproject board over a three week period. All registered
schools can ask one question per week which requires a yes or
no answer to each clue posting school. At the end of the three
weeks the school which guessed the most landmarks will be declared
the winner!
January 1 to January 8, 2001 All schools wishing to participate must register with Germantown Academy by midnight January 7 and you must send your nine clues to the landmark game moderator by midnight February 6. E-mail your registration form to landmark@ga.k12.pa.us. The registration information is at the bottom of this message.
January 8 to January 15, 2001 - Participants should send a letter of introduction to the Kidproj listserv. Share something about your school, your class, and your town with the other participants.
January 15 to February 1, 2001- All participating schools will choose their landmark and work on creating nine clues. By midnight February 1 all participants should send their nine clues and the name of their landmark to the landmark moderator at landmark@ga.k12.pa.us . This is a change from the original game to insure the successful completion of the game. This list will only be seen by the moderator and not by any G.A. participating classes. A list of all participants and their e-mail addresses will be sent to the Kidproj listserv by February 8.
February 5 to February 26, 2001 - By midnight Monday of
each week the landmark game moderator will post three clues to
the Kidproject board. If Monday is a holiday the clues will be
posted before time. During each week a question requiring a yes
or no answer can be asked of each posting school. Remember this
question must be sent to the posting school and not to the Kidproject
board. Each school is allowed only one actual guess of the landmark
so do your research! .
February 26 to March 4 - Send one e-mail message to the
landmark moderator containing the name of each particiating school
and your guess for their landmark. This message must be in the
hands of the moderator by midnight March 5 .
March 5, 2001- The game is officially over midnight March
5 and a winner will be announced by March 12. The moderator will
post a list of each school's final tally to the kidproject board.
A list of all the schools and their landmarks will also be posted
at this time.
Reminders:
All participants must be a member of the KIGPROJ listerv. All
communication for the project will take place on the KIDPROJ board.
Send registration to - landmark@ga.k12.pa.us - not the Kidproject
board.
Send your nine clues to the landmark moderator by February 1 -
landmark@ga.k12.pa.us
Send all questions to the posting school. You will have a list
of each participants email address from the list being sent by
G.A. Add each participating schools email address to the address
book of your mail program and then it will be handy through out
the game.
Send your guesses to the landmark moderator by March 5- landmark@ga.k12.pa.us.
This project brought excitement and enthusiasm to our classroom,
our school and to the learning process. It allowed me to be the
guide on the side instead of the sage on the stage as my students
organized the game, used both public and private e-mail to send
the announcement and all the correspondence. They wrote and worked
in small groups as they not only researched the clues for our
landmark but researched the clues submitted by the participating
schools. As the clues came in weekly my students posted them to
boards in our classroom and to a general board in the students
cafeteria and teacher's lounge so that many students and teachers
throughout the school participated. They submitted questions each
week to the participating schools, helped participating schools
with questions of organization or rules which needed to be clarified,
submitted our guesses to partcipating schools and kept a tally
of all landmarks guessed correctly by setting up a data base.
This project has many wonderful aspects. It not only crosses the
curriculum areas allowing students to call on their writing, problem
solving, critical thinking, map reading and organizational skills
but it also crosses grade levels and cultures. As you can see
from the participant list elementary, middle and high school students
from around the world participated as equals.
So if you are interested in getting involved become a member of
the kidproj listserv and look for our announcement in early December
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