Mystery Skype

Team Gibbas Mystery Skype

By: Student Blogger Elise 

"Are you west of the Mississippi River?"  This was one of the questions that Team Gibbas asked the classroom we were skyping with for our first Mystery Skype of the year.

On Wednesday, May 2nd we got to do a mystery skype with a class from Kansas. When we skyped them we had no idea where they were from. To find out where they were from we had to ask yes or no questions. First we asked big questions and went down to more detailed questions. We did the skype to practice our map skills. When they said yes or no our note taker  would write down the notes to help the people in the think tank ask very good questions. Then the runners would give the questions to the filters to make sure they were good questions that hadn't already been asked before. After we learned that they were from Kansas the next question they asked was if we were from Massachusetts, so it was a tie!

At the end of the Skype call we learned that the fourth grader on screen asking us questions was actually the daughter of Mrs. Gibbas's college roommate!  We also learned that these Kansas fourth graders would be getting out of school a bit earlier than us.  Their last day of school will be May 24th whereas we will be in school until June 21st.

We can't wait to do a mystery skype again!

Thank you Mrs. Klipfel for this fun learning experience!