{"id":122,"date":"2019-02-26T19:53:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T19:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mary-ellenwilcox\/?p=122"},"modified":"2019-02-26T19:53:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T19:53:09","slug":"march-mammal-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mary-ellenwilcox\/2019\/02\/26\/march-mammal-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"March Mammal Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Have you heard? Are your kids involved? Do you do March Mammal Madness?<\/p>\n

If you are not, that’s OK, I wasn’t either until this year. I found out about March Mammal Madness through a facebook group for teachers I follow that is full of crazy awesome science ideas.\u00a0 March Mammal Madness, or MMM2019 for short, pits animal against animal in a “who would win” theoretical situation. The results combine careful research by university professors, and weighted probability with a dice roll to keep things random.<\/p>\n

You can read up about past years and the ideas behind the\u00a0bracket here:\u00a0https:\/\/libguides.asu.edu\/MarchMammalMadness\/2019MMM<\/p>\n

Personally, for maximum involvement, I’ve assigned each student in our middle school an animal. They will prepare a 1-minute presentation to convince their peers that their animal should win and then we will follow along, cheering for the animals as they win and crying for those who lose.<\/p>\n

Right now, as kids research their animals, they are devoted, excited and happy. There is friendly “smack talk” about whos animal will beat which other animals in the room. It’s a perfect end to our classes before the break starts and it is channelling their energy into something productive.<\/p>\n

In March,\u00a0once we return from break, I expect this to take a few minutes each day out of our class time, but I expect the knowledge of animals and habitats to increase, that we will have a moment to bond over our shared desire to see a particular animal win and I expect for the kids to have a lot of fun.\u00a0 I’m looking forward to it, and perhaps you will be too once you look into it.<\/p>\n

What fun things do you do in your classes that add value and allow you the opportunity\u00a0to create and develop relationships with your students?<\/p>\n

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Have you heard? Are your kids involved? Do you do March Mammal Madness? If you are not, that’s OK, I wasn’t either until this year. I found out about March Mammal Madness through a facebook group for teachers I follow that is full of crazy awesome science ideas.\u00a0 March Mammal Madness, or MMM2019 for short, … Continue reading “March Mammal Madness”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mary-ellenwilcox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mary-ellenwilcox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mary-ellenwilcox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mary-ellenwilcox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mary-ellenwilcox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mary-ellenwilcox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mary-ellenwilcox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mary-ellenwilcox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mary-ellenwilcox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mary-ellenwilcox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}