Mario+Kart+Leader+Board

[[image:Picture_of_Mario_from_Mario_Bros_Games.jpg width="185" height="352" align="left"]]**AN INVITATION TO THE MARIO KART LEADER BOARD PROJECT!**
====**Penny Chaiko**, Teacher Librarian at Nantyr Shores Secondary School and **Julie Johnson**, Teacher at Goodfellow Public School, would like to **cordially invite** you to be a part of our **Mario Kart Teacher Collaboration & Leaderboard Project!**====

====The goal of this project is for schools and classrooms from SCDSB--and beyond! to creatively use the Mario Kart Wii game linked to their curriculum. In any areas--math, literacy, science, whatever you like!====

====Some ideas of how to link the game to curriculum are already provided by Julie Johnson at her resource site at www.gbl.betterthanworksheets.com or email jujohnson@mail1.scdsb.on.ca if you'd like to consult/brainstorm. She would be very happy to help!====

====In the context of using the Mario Kart game in class, each student can have at least one chance to play the game (they would need to race as 1 player in order to get a timed result down to the 6 time points ie: '1:37:009'). (Everyone races as Mario with a Standard Kart on the Luigi Circuit so results are the same and thus comparable). Then those times can be submitted here on our leaderboard page.====

====The top contenders by year's end will have a chance for a 'race off' at a celebration event (likely held at Nantry Shores--or via Skype/online if you are not local). At the celebration event, schools/classes can also share the different ways they implemented the MK game.====

This wiki would be a place to share accomplishments and different applications. It would act as a resource as well as a venue for collaboration and discussion.
====This project builds on the success of [|Julie Johnson's MISA funded math & literacy project]of last school year. There are many ideas in her blog about the project as well. This project received a fair bit of media attention, click [|HERE] if you would like to see the newspaper clippings and here the radio interviews.====