WE WON!!

Results are in for our Journey North Mystery Class project and we WON!

Adrienne and I are very pleased to have found the correct locations for all 10 mystery classes. This coming friday we will "meet" the actual classes.


This was our second year in participating in this project even though she was in public school this time(we also won last year!). I can't say enough good things about it! If you are homeschooling or not, it is worth looking into:

Journey North Mystery Class

The Journey North has many other projects to do throughout the year, and we will be trying out a few during our next school year. I think the following would be interesting to Adrienne and Celeste:

Symbolic Migration

Tulip Gardens

Here is a little explanation of Journey North, from their website:

Seasonal change is all around us. Children see it in the length of a day, in the appearance of a flower, in the flight of a butterfly. Journey North is a free, Internet-based program that explores the interrelated aspects of seasonal change. Through interrelated investigations, students discover that sunlight drives all living systems and they learn about the dynamic ecosystem that surrounds and connects them.

Sunlight and the Seasons: Children study seasonal change in sunlight in a global game of hide and seek called Mystery Class.

Plants and the Seasons: Children explore tulip growth in their own gardens, running an experiment that tracks the arrival of spring.

Seasonal Migrations: Children follow animal migrations. They observe, research, and report findings and watch journeys progress on live maps.

Mystery Class ~ Final Update!

We finished last week our Journey North Mystery Class project, and I just sent our final guesses to the site. Adrienne and I are hoping we are correct!

Here are our final answers for the 10 Mystery Class locations:

#1: Douala, Cameroon

#2: Lausanne, Switzerland

#3: Taichung City, Taiwan Province, China

#4: Maputo, Mozambique

#5: Homer, Alaska, USA

#6 Melekeok, Babeldaob, Palau

#7 : Bird Island, South Georgia

#8 : Mukdahan, Thailand

#9: Adelaide, Australia

#10: Mount Pleasant, Iowa, USA

This is a wonderful yearly event, if you are interested in finding out more, visit the Journey North site by pressing the link below. There are many other interesting and free projects as well.

Journey North Mystery Class

Mystery Class Update #10

Journey North Mystery Class Update

Sunrise/Sunset data up to April 6, 2009

Here are our guesses so far for each location:

#1: Cameroon, Africa

#2: Vaud Canton, Switzerland

#3: ?, Taiwan

#4: Mozambique, Africa

#5: Alaska, USA

#6: Koror State, Paula

#7: King Edward Point or Bird Island, South Georgia Islands

#8: Udon Thani Province, Thailand

#9: Adelaide, Australia

#10: Wisconsin, Michigan

Adrienne and I calculated the longitude clues this morning and found many mistakes with our guesses of last week, but we did find a few correct guesses too!

Here are the order of our mystery classes charts this week, as seen on the photo:

The 3 at the bottom of the picture represent the locations west of Greewich, England, farthest away is #5, then #10, and #7

The remainder 7 classes starting closest to Greenwich: #2, 1, 4, 8, 3, 6, and 9.

There is only one more set of clues next week!

Visit Journey North Mystery Class if you are interested in this project, we will participate again next year.

Mystery Class Update #9

Sunrise/sunset data up to March 30, 2009

Organized by Northern/Southern Hemisphere, the space in between representing the equator, each sheet is then placed as closest or furthest away from the equator.

So far, our mystery classes are organized in this way:

Northern Hemisphere: 5, 10, 2, 3, 8, 1, 6 (5 being the place we are guessing is furthest away from the equator, and 6 the one closest to it)

Southern Hemisphere: 4, 9, 7 (4 being closest to the equator, 7 further away)

After reading this past Friday's clues , we have a little bit more of an idea for some of the mystery classes, but nothing sure yet!

Mystery Class Update #8

Sunrise/Sunset data up to March 23, 2009

We now have the first set of clues to help us in determining the locations of the 10 mystery classes. Here is the link: Journey North Mystery Class 2009.

Mystery Class Update #7

Journey North Mystery Class update ~ Sunrise/Sunset date up to March 16

Mystery Class Update #6

Mystery Class update ~ Sunrise/sunset up until March 9, 2009

Mystery Class Update #5

Journey North Mystery Class sunrise/sunset data up to March 2, 2009

Mystery Class Update #4

Journey North Mystery Class sunrise/sunset data up to February 23, 2009

Mystery Class Update #3

Journey North Mystery Class sunrise/sunset data up to February 16, 2009

Mystery Class Update #2

Journey North Mystery Class sunrise/sunset data for February 9, 2009

Journey North Mystery Class #1 ~ First Week!

Adrienne and I completed the 10 charts for each mystery class location on Saturday morning. You can still join at Journey North .

Journey North Mystery Class ~ Starts Monday!

Adrienne and I are looking forward to doing this project again! We did it last year and you can see all the related posts by clicking HERE . Even though she is now attending public school, this is one of the projects that she has been asking for, reminding me since Christmas, wanting to make sure we didn't miss it!

Journey North Mystery Class is a great project that includes many interesting educational activities. We learned about sunlight and the seasons, latitude and longitude, charting our weekly sunrise/sunset data on charts, and calculating daylight hours. Our favourite part was doing research using the interdisciplinary clues towards the end of the project, trying to find out the location of each of the mystery classes. Sometimes the clues were food related, or history, politics, culture...very interesting! All while trying to match up our answers with the latitude and longitude coordinates that we had come up with!

You can visit Journey North website to learn more about the Mystery Class and how to partcipate in this project here. If you are participating, leave a comment at the end of this post. It can be fun comparing notes!

The project starts this Monday, February 2 and ends on May 8 when the Mystery Sites are revealed.