Today we did a fun Yes/No Mystery Skype with Mr. Badura and a group of third grade students from York Elementary School in York, Nebraska. My students had jobs during this Skype to make sure that everyone was engaged and helping out. We had Hannah and Claire as our Greeters, Emily and Kiera were the Inquirers who asked our questions, and Jeremy and Nathan were the Answerers who gave our answers. Sarah took photos and Anthony did the video. Liam, Tyler and Nicholas were the Text Mappers who looked at terrain in the maps.

Katie and Anna were Atlas Mappers who marked off what states it could not be using dry erase markers on a map.

Veronica, Emmet and Adam were our Think Tanks who helped come up with questions.

Lexi and Brennan were our Question Keeper to keep track of what questions we had already asked.

Helena and Megan were the Runners who went to each group, gathered questions and relayed them to the Inquirers.

Both classes did a fantastic job of asking questions to narrow down the locations. We each guessed correctly right after each other!

At the end, we had fun sharing some facts about our different states. We learned that Kool-Aid was invented in Nebraska. We enjoyed learning about how they keep safe during tornadoes since they live in Tornado Alley.An interesting rock formation in their state is Chimney Rock.

They also have Carhenge which is a spoof on England’s Stonehenge. We thought this sculpture was really neat!

Thanks for a great Skype! We hope to keep connected through blog comments.