Mystery Hangouts!
Students are challenged to locate the location of our Mystery /Hangout/Skype partners. Here are some tips from experienced Mystery Skype students: http://pernillesripp.com/2013/05/13/great-mystery-skype-questions-to-get-you-started/
For the USA
If east of Mississippi:
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For Canada:
These are suggestions only! Depending on your answers you have to adapt your questions. We play in a yes/no format where students get to continue guessing until they get a no answer. Then it becomes the other teams turn.
Things we do not recommend doing:
Things we do recommend doing:
- Are you in North America?
- Are you in Canada?
- Do you border a ocean?
- Do you border Alaska?
- Do you border the Hudson Bay?
- Are you landlocked?
- Does your province have a NHL team?
- Do you border the United States?
- Do the Rocky Mountains touch your province?
- Are you north of British Columbia?
These are suggestions only! Depending on your answers you have to adapt your questions. We play in a yes/no format where students get to continue guessing until they get a no answer. Then it becomes the other teams turn.
Things we do not recommend doing:
- Vague questions such as weather related ones unless they are specific.
- Guessing states too quickly.
- Not having a student write down the questions and answers.
- The teacher having their location on their Skype profile.
- Wearing a shirt that represents or is a clue to your location.
Things we do recommend doing:
- Paying attention to the questions that the other team asks – often it gives away clues.
- Paying attention in general.
- Having a sign signaling thinking or someone telling jokes/stories.
- Staying calm and don’t be rude to each other.
- Assigning jobs and sticking to them.
- Having a student-led discussion after the call to discuss success/failures and figure out how to improve.