Mystery Skype Call With Kansas!
Mrs. Lofdahl invited Ms. Tulbure's class to be part of a
Mystery Skype/Google Hangout call with her first grade class!
Two groups come together via Google Hangouts, but neither know the other's location. Closed questions, or questions that can only be answered with a YES or a NO answer, were permitted.
Every third grader contributed and tried to solve the Mystery. Before the call, the class created some useful jobs and gathered resources that would help them be good geography detectives.
Mrs. Lofdahl's students invited us to play Rock, Paper, Scissors to see who would go first. They won, so they asked the first question.
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| All photos by Photographers Marley and Samantha |
We decided that four students should be our Questioners. They asked the yes or no questions. We also had two Question Helpers, who would also think of inquiries to make to the other team.
Two Data Enterers sat next to the Questioners and typed the questions and answers on a Google Doc that all could see.
It was helpful to review the yes and no answers quickly.
Others were Researchers. They used Google Maps and traditional atlases to zero in on the clues.
A few students were Task Masters and Question Focusers. If students had problems, they would try and solve them. In addition, they would run facts and updated maps to the Questioners.
We also had Greeters, Closers, and awesome student Signers that made helpful signs.
It was a great game filled with fantastic questions. Mrs. Lofdal's students guess our location first. Well done! Our class continued to ask questions until they narrowed their location down to....KANSAS!
Below is a slideshow and video of our first ever Mystery Skype
What did you like about the game?
What job would you like to be next time? Why?
