If you are interested in participating, please contact project designer and coordinator, Cheryl Vitali. Each participating school is encouraged to develop their own unique celebration to share. Whether folding peace cranes in Japan or having a fiesta in Canada, the focus is on celebrating the global friendships and harmony that can develop from classroom collaboration. Students at Alta Elementary are participating in MayaQuest 2001. This promises to be the most exciting quest yet, because the Quest Team is hosting our travel buddy Quesla as they trek through Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala.
Every day is an exploration.
The journal will continue after the quest down to Ecuador, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Many classrooms locally and around the world are participating in this special exploration with Alta students. Students at Alta Elementary enjoyed participating in AustraliaQuest in the fall of 2000. Their exploration began the first day of the school year hosting Olympic Travel Buddies from Sydney, followed the dreamline of the Aborigines with the Quest Team, and culminated in a Corrorrboree near Thanksgiving. Our buddies arrived home in February and we are still working with materials to share on our Web site.