Project Call for Participation

Theme:

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!

To participate:

You must register with the Landmark moderator at landmark@ga.k12.pa.us (registration info below), 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)

This game has been very popular in the past. So inorder to give every school a chance to participate we are asking for only one registration from each school. Other classes from the same school can particpate by helping to research the clues and guess the landmarks submitted by the other participants. We would like no more than 50 participating schools. Good Luck to all!

Timeline:

Registration

January 1 to January 8, 1999

All schools wishing to participate must register with Germantown Academy by midnight January 8 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.

Phase I -Letter of Introduction

January 8 to January 15, 1999

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.

Phase II - Compose Clues

January 15 to January 29, 1999

All participating schools will choose their landmark and work on creating nine clues. By midnight February 3 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.

Phase III - Game Time

February 8 to February 26, 1999

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! .

Phase IV - Make Your Guesses

February 27 to March 5

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 7.

March 5, 1999

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 January 29
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.



Registration: (Do not send the name of your landmark)


School Name
Address
Phone
Email
Contact person name
Contact person email
Contact person phone

Send any questions to the landmark moderator at landmark@ga.k12.pa.us. I am looking forward to a fun filled exciting game.

For more information about the game and a look at the clues and landmarks from the past four games see our web site at

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/~carol/landmark.html

Warm regards,
Carol Siwinski

Carol Siwinski
Germantown Academy
Fort Washington, Pa. 10903
Curricular Technology Specialist

csiwi@ga.k12.pa.us
www. ga.k12.pa.us/curtech/curtech.htm
www.forum.swarthmore.edu/~carol/rest_stop.html
www.forum.swarthmore.edu/~carol/landmark.html

"All students are gifted; it is our job to identify the gift"