We have hunted Country Capitals and Landmarks around the world.

Now, the Maywood Center Moderators challenge you: WHO?? are the people that traveled into unknown places and discovered some of the landmarks or founded the cities that became capitals? Some of these explorers may have blazed the way for for others that came later and founded the cities or built the landmarks.

Pretending we are detectives like in the popular game, Carmen SanDiego, let's follow the clues to discover who these explorers are!!

Hunt for Famous Explorers is patterened after Hunt for Country Capitals and Hunt for World Landmarks so many of you already know the rules.

Watch for the announcement of Hunt for Famous Explorers on the Kidproj list around the middle of March. The game will be played between April 7 and May 30, 1997 with registration beginning April 7. Hopefully this time frame will accommodate all the Spring Breaks that may occur during the month of April!!

To Play

Choose an explorer anywhere in the world. Students, research facts concerning the explorer and compose nine interesting clues and send them along with your the name of your explorer to the Explorer Moderators. Three clues per week will be posted by the Explorer Moderators 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 explorers will be declared the winner!

Follow-Up Activity

Wouldn't it be fun to create a world history timeline with the explorers that our players have chosen? Then create a vertical computer generated timeline and email it to the Kidproj list to share with everyone. It will be interesting to see how different groups produce these timelines! They will also be displayed on these web pages.

To Get Ready

To participate you must send in your students FourResponse Questions to Kidlink and subscribe to the Kidproj listserv. 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)

For Teachers/Adults: Please subscribe to the Kidproj -Coord list for adult communication. Just add a second line directly below the "subscribe kidproj your name" line to the above message:

subscribe kidproj-coord your name

Introduce Yourselves

Please introduce yourselves by writing a description of your class, your school, and your community. Introductions should be sent to the KIDPROJ list so everyone can read it! Introductions may be mailed after your class is registered for the game. Please put "Explorers" somewhere in the subject line, ie; "Explorers- Maywood Center Intro".

Now You Are Ready To Play!

The Maywood Center Explorer Moderators hope to meet you in the game! The email address for the game moderators is explorers1@juno.com.
Questions or comments about the game may be emailed to Diane Smith dianes@halcyon.com or the KIDPROJ-COORD list.

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[Register Here][Play Dates][Participants][Clues][Guesses]
[History Timelines]

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Information Contact: Patti Weeg, Title 1 Computer Teacher, Delmar El. School, Delmar, Maryland, USA. Home Page: http://www.intercom.net/local/weeg

KIDPROJ WWW Contact: Grant Dougall, Educational Consultant: Technologies, Saskatoon Board of Education, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CANADA. Web Site: http://198.169.140.21/

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HTML coder for this project Diane Smith

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Created 10:26 AM 6/12/97