If you don’t know what a Mystery Hangout/Mystery Skype/Mystery Location Call is and you are a teacher… especially a geography, language, or world cultures teacher… then you are missing out.
Essentially it is a real-time 20 questions game between students in two different classrooms. You can only ask Yes/No questions and each side takes turns. You keep going until both sides know where each other are in the world. Then you spend some time asking questions to each other based on interest. The whole process should be about 15-20 minutes, no longer, so it doesn’t impact class time too much.
Today I am posting my maps collection because I have been having a hard time with other groups not having maps. I have collected a set of maps, located here: https://goo.gl/42noVE It is important to have maps ready for your students. I have mine in plastic sleeves so they are easy to access. After we figure out the country, if the other team wants to do prefecture/province or even smaller, to city, then we switch over to Google Maps to see in close. But the big maps are good until then, to get to country and, in many cases, state level, too.
Sites that describe Mystery Hangouts or give good ideas:
- http://mysteryhangouts.blogspot.jp/
- http://globalclassroom2013-14.wikispaces.com/Mystery+Location
- http://weinquireandinspire.blogspot.jp/2015/05/breaking-down-classroom-walls-with.html
- http://cybraryman.com/mysterylocationcall.html
- http://jasonmarshallmbusd.blogspot.jp/2015/06/mystery-hangout-whats-all-fuss-about.html
- http://www.slideshare.net/dambrosio7/mystery-hangout
I love Google Hangouts. Here is our map so far:
Tweet at me if you’d like to arrange a Google Hangout! @tesolgeek
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