Dear Parents, 

Mr. Jeff, our ES IT teacher, has been introducing World Education Games to as many students as possible and giving them their account information for the huge event.  This event had previously been known as WORLD MATH DAY, but has evolved into MATHS, SCIENCE and LITERACY events. (If students haven't yet heard about this from him, it's because they were doing a practice MAP test during their IT class.) 

The event runs from Oct. 13-15th. Students will compete against other students from around the world and collect points for each correct answer.  At the end of the event, all points are converted into cash and UNICEF uses the worldwide total to help with the SCHOOL-IN-A-BOX Project.  (View here: Unicef Video School in a Box) This helps our DAA students think beyond the academics and technology and more about Global Citizenship.  

Students can keep a record of any and all countries that they compete against, as well as what time they took the test.  Then, we as a class can use this for tracking, graphing, tallying, mapping and comparisons with other classes. They start to see time zone patterns over these few days.  

Students are tracked as individuals and as a school.  Top answerers will be recognized at the end of the event.  

Students are encouraged to do this at home as it is open now for practice. I will be giving out the account numbers and password information on Sunday. 

Have fun!!