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?
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ReplyDeleteDear Class,
Global Play Day was awesome and turned out very well. Reason number one I liked the fact that everything was a opinion to other people with their favorite toy. Reason number two is that the board games are the game that i do not know how to play. Reason number three is that some toys were wrecked up but still works surprisingly the toys still worked. Support For reason number one, the Global play day is imaginative and keeps you off the screen. Support for Reason number two is that the remote control is awesome , but it moves around for you and I do Not like that so you have to have push toys. Everyone has legos and half of them are not moving around on your own, I have a ton of Legos and they aren’t pushable, so that's why I like push toys. Support for reason number three, The push toys are the best because back then they did not have technology so you would have to push the toy, I had a bunch of push toys that I like. Now, time for the details of my truck. My truck which I brought in last year, but this one is special. It is seven times bigger than the other truck. It is diecast, opening doors, opening hood, Actually rubber little tires and delicate sidemirriers, oil tank, smokestack, running board, mud flaps, bumper, head lights, horn on the top, deflector,and the steps on the back to connect up the lights to the trailer. How do you think Global Play Day went and do you have that detailed of a truck?
Sincerely,
Skyler