The Landmark Game
Timeline
January 1 to January 8, 2001
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
or use the web form. The registration information is at the
bottom of this message.
Phase I -Letter of Introduction
January 8 to January 15, 2001 -
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 February 1, 2001-
All participating schools will choose their landmark and work on creating nine clues.
By midnight February 1 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 5 to February 26, 2001 -
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 26 to March 4 - 2001
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 5.
March 5, 2001
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.
Registration: (Do not send the name of your landmark)
School Name
Address
Phone
Email
Contact person name
Contact person email
Contact person phone
Reflection
This project brought excitement and enthusiasm to our classroom, our school and to the
learning process. It allowed me to be the guide on the side instead of the sage on the
stage as my students organized the game, used both public and private e-mail to send the
announcement and all the correspondence. They wrote and worked in small groups as they not
only researched the clues for our landmark but researched the clues submitted by the
participating schools. As the clues came in weekly my students posted them to boards in
our classroom and to a general board in the students cafeteria and teacher's lounge so
that many students and teachers throughout the school participated. They submitted
questions each week to the participating schools, helped participating schools with
questions of organization or rules which needed to be clarified, submitted our guesses to
partcipating schools and kept a tally of all landmarks guessed correctly by setting up a
data base.
This project has many wonderful aspects. It not only crosses the curriculum areas allowing
students to call on their writing, problem solving, critical thinking, map reading and
organizational skills but it also crosses grade levels and cultures. As you can see from
the participant list elementary, middle and high school students from around the world
participated as equals.
So if you are interested in getting involved become a member of the kidproj listserv and
register by January , 2001.
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