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Journey North Tulips, Collaboration and Mystery Classrooms Collaboration will make a better project. Journey North site

3 schools interstate to collaborate. The collaboration was connected Used video conferences, used google docs, Set up through the web site. Jouney north--How does spring arrive in the Northern Hemisphere? Measure when spring starts by when the tulips come up. The company is on the site to order the tulips from. When they bloom, we can upload the date. World expression is the bulb we got today.

It would be cool to connect schools and our other classrooms. The variable is the geographic location of the planted tulips.

The list of experiments is generated from the three classrooms.

What will affect emergence? Movies were made from each school and shared the ways to plant and do the experiments.

Video Conferences were set up for each school. Scopia was used so the images were projected to the whole class.

Sigrid Lumbar is in charged of the LNV and she will set up a meeting room. Scopia will be a free option to do this.

Examine results : Journey North results and partner classroom results.

Ended with a live sharing. Each experiment had to dig up one of the bulbs. Video conferences with college students.

What got you interested in science. What makes a good poster.

Finally all groups made a poster and each school had a piece of the poster. There were some powerful implications for learning when each school met. There was accountability to other students.

After the meeting and the presentations kids had a day of play.

Mystery classroom,

What is the meaning of the seasons.

10 classrooms spread over the plant.

The first 5 weeks is working on the math about sunlight and darkness. This is during the fall equinox. It is the tilt of the earth that is the reason for the seasons. Work is tracked on the graph. Watch the lines on the graph to converge. Each group has a packet and there are 2 kids per classroom. They get clues about their country or continent. and each group has differnt classroom. Google doc to enter date. students had to imput all the data. Then they could see the diffenert data of logging information. Soon the students were getting closer to the amount of time by comparing other information.

Getting ready to fill out the form was more difficult.

Students had to guess what state, city, country and continent their mystery classroom was located.

Ended the session with the video classroom. Discussed the reasoning for the guess and the latitude and longitude. Again the final write ups.

Lends itself to writing in a structure to guess the mystery classroom They used scientific evidence to support the guess.

tinyurl.com/tulips-mystery christina smith csmith@wnesu.net