Following the adventures and discoveries of a real-life expedition encourages higher level thinking and learning skills in related weekly activities in math, science and social studies.

Find out more about how this program will keep relevant with YOUR CLASSROOM SCHEDULE!

GRADE LEVEL - we recommend this program for 4th through 7th grade in the US. Age range 10-13 years.

TIMELINE - the main event starts the 15th April 2005, finishing the 14th October. We encourage students to still track the expedition team's progress via the Expedition Journal during vacation/holiday periods.

The learning center resources, including the weekly lesson activities, will be available for the first semester April 15th through the end of May. At this point the winners of the competition will be announced. See below for prize information.

A second semester event will begin August 15th through October 14th, at which point competition winners for this second period will be announced. See below for prize information.

HOW TO USE THIS PROGRAM - 1. First REGISTER YOUR CLASS. This will allow your students to participate in the interative portion of the event and take advantage of the weekly activities in math, science and social studies.

2. Then go to the EXPEDITION JOURNAL: expedition team members will be sending back journal entries to the x360 weblog every 1-2 days via laptop and satellite phones. Taking the form of text and still images, these updates will provide an ongoing adventure narrative for students to track the latest progress of the expedition team kayaking through Indonesia.

3. Next, go to the LEARNING CENTER: create student teams for math, science and social studies. Each team will be responsible for researching the lesson and finding a solution for the weekly activity.

After completing the weekly assessment, teams may post comments, feedback and questions to the weblog set up for that subject area. You will need your username and password assigned when you first registered for the event.

Teams may rotate content areas throughout the competition.

A weekly assessment of lesson objectives will be completed by each class. Teachers will email class responses to me - April - by the end of each week. Please note that the more responses sent in by a class over the event period, the better its chances of winning the competition.

Results of the winning teams will be posted on the subject area weblogs at the beginning of the following week.

COMPETITION and PRIZES - the winning class for both competitions will be awarded a kayak paddle signed by expedition team members. The winning team for period 1 will be announced the end of May. The winning class for period 2 will be announced the middle of October.

TEACHER'S WEBLOG - ask questions, post comments or interact with other teachers via the Teachers Weblog.

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DEFINITIONS - WEBLOGS: Comments and questions can be posted by your class to a communal weblog for other classes and the expedition team to read. You just need your username and password to be an author. There is no fancy software to deal with - everything is done through your existing browser.

THIS IS A FREE EVENT! We only request you use the components of the program, such as the class weblog, in a responsible manner. You are responsible for the content posted by your students. Thanks!

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