Texas History Mystery: Day 1
May 5, 2008
Today was the first day of our Texas History Mystery (based on the MysteryQuest format) and the first session was great! This year we have 67 classes during our 5 days of connections representing schools from across the state.
One school had a back drop and acted out their clues.
Sometimes when the clues are embedded in a skit, it is difficult to hear the clues. This class used nice visual clues to restate the clues.
All of the classes today had good “reveals” and one class even had a good-bye song! I used our Sympodium while facilitating to help keep the classes (and myself on track). I hope our schools enjoyed the connections as much as I did.
We had some time at the end and the classes got to ask each other questions and we learned about the size of the schools.
- Roanoke Elem from Northwest ISD had about 550 students in their elementary. (They have 13 elementary schools in their district.)
- Fairfield Elem from Fairfield ISD had about 750 student in their elementary which is the ONLY elementary in their district.
- Park Lakes Elem from Humble ISD has over 800 students in their elementary school and they have 23 elementary schools in their district.
This helps me to understand the size of the larger districts because in my service area, the majority of my schools do not have multiple elementary schools.
I would love to hear from teachers and students. How did your connections go today?
Posted in Collaborative Projects, Tx History Mystery
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I had an afternoon session today with 3 elementary schools in Humble and one Middle School in Fort Bend. The presentations were well prepared and our sites are learning how to use presets to zoom in on clues and groups in their presentations! Not even one technical glitch in this one, which made everything flow really nicely. We even had some mariachi singers in one mystery presentation!
Cool on the goodbye song. I’ve been thinking about incorporating Angela’s cheers into this and having each class prepare a cheer to share as they say goodbye. Wouldn’t that be fun?!