March Mammal Madness
The official location for March Mammal Madness tournament information and resources! If you're learning, you're winning!
MC Marmot Rodent Roundtable
- MC Marmot's Rodent Roundtable - YouTube ChannelDirect link to the YouTube channel for the Rodent Recap after each battle. Due to time zone differences and video production times, there may be a delay before each individual video is embedded on this Libguide page.
Stoats
- Stoatally Awesome ConverterGet your #stoatistics here! Created by Marc Kissel
Busted Bracketeers
Sometimes our pick for Champion meets an unfortunate early exit from the tournament. Upsets happen, and they are called upsets not because people respond to them with cordial equanimity. BUT in 2024, in collaboration with MMM graphic design guru, Prof. Will Nickley, we present the Busted Bracketeers Bracket! While you can’t update any digital bracket submissions, you CAN print out this bracket starting with the Sweet Sixteen, pick a new champion to cheer & keep following the MMM action through to the end! Rally your fellow friends with busted brackets to form your own local club!
Educators, consider starting a small prize for the best score of the Busted Bracketeers or best sustained engagement of the Busted Bracketeers.
- 2024MMM Busted Bracketeer BracketPrint out this bracket starting with the Sweet Sixteen, pick a new champion to cheer & keep following the MMM action through to the end!
March Mammal Madness for Educators
It begins! Please follow this link to the request form for educator materials, if you haven't already, and an optional educator survey!
2024MMM Bracket
- BRACKET GUIDE for EducatorsThis Tournament Guide provides key info about how to play March Mammal Madness with specific details for 2024.
- JUMBO Bracket in English (PDF)5 page pdf for those who need extra space
- 2024MMM Quiniela Español (pdf)Spanish Language version of the bracket
- 2024MMM Quiniela Español JUMBO (pdf)PDF de 5 páginas para aquellos que necesitan más espacio
- PNG Files of Brackets (Folder)If you need PNG files of any of the brackets, here they are.
- Perennial Bracket Banner FolderBracket banner display designed to be used year after year:
-PDF designed to be a 8'x12' banner with grommets
-JPG is available if absolutely necessary (but not recommended)
Online Bracket Scoring
Back by popular demand, Mr. Jeff Brunstrum’s CONTEST MANAGER!
The contest manager can be copied and then be used by teachers to track student scores on their bracket selections. MMM strongly emphasizes that students should be graded on participation, aspects of combatant research, arguing from evidence, and/or other classrooMMM activities, but students should never be graded on how well their bracket scores in the tournament.
- Self-Scoring Tournament BracketThis will allow participants to have a digital MMM bracket of their picks that will automatically update and score their selections as the tournament goes on. If you are looking to run a MMM pool this will also give a convenient way for players to enter their bracket submissions and the pool manager can use the digital pool manager sheet to automatically score up to 40 entries and keep updated standings throughout the tournament.
- Contest ManagerThis template allows a Bracket Pool Manager to run a Pool using Google Sheets. The pool manager can use this sheet to automatically score up to 40 entries and keep updated standings throughout the tournament.
- Contest Manager Video DirectionsThis video goes over some of the common mistakes that are made importing contestant data. THREE CHEERS FOR Mr. Brunstrum!
IS YOUR MMM CONTEST BIGGER THAN JUST ONE CLASS?
- Large Contest ManagerIntended to be able to automatically score up to 400 entries and keep updated standings. This manager may get slow and laggy with large amounts of entries, but it should work.
2024MMM Tournament Schedule
The action starts at 8 PM Eastern / 5 PM Pacific on all game nights.
2024 March Mammal Madness CALENDAR
Game Time is 8 PM Eastern/5 PM Pacific for all tournament nights.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| March 10 (SUN) | Wild Card Eve |
| March 11 (MON) | WILD CARD |
| March 13 (WED) | Round 1: Epic Animals |
| March 14 (THURS) | Round 1: Connoisseur Critters |
| March 18 (MON) | Round 1: Rainbow Collection |
| March 20 (WED) | Round 1: Take a Bow |
| March 21 (THURS) | Round 2: Epic Animals & Connoisseur Critters |
| March 25 (MON) | Round 2: Rainbow Collection & Take a Bow |
| March 27 (WED) | SWEET 16 |
| March 28 (THURS) | ELITE TRAIT |
| April 1 (MON) | FINAL ROAR |
| April 3 (WED) | CHAMPIONSHIP |
2024MMM Videos
- Key 2024MMM DetailsQuick Guide about the 2024 Divisions, Picking your Winner, Home Habitat Advantage in Rounds 1-3 & Random Habitats Info for the Elite Trait, the Final Roar, and the Championship, and introducing the the Busted Bracketeers.
- Inside the MMM TournamentVideo with a behind the scenes explanation about how winners are determined and the battle play-by-plays crafted.
- MMM Educator VideoVideo with specific info for Educators to MMMaximize the Educational Opportunities of March Mammal Madness.
Getting Started Resources
- 2024 MMM Combatant Information Slides in EnglishView-only Google presentation. (Educators - go to File>Make a Copy to create a version you can edit)
- Logos and Hype MaterialsGoogle Drive folder of 2024MMM logos and other graphics - PNG files.
- Calendar (editable for Educators)View-only Google presentation. (Educators - go to File>Make a Copy to create a version you can edit)
Lesson Plans, Presentations, & Worksheets in English
Please Go to File>Make a Copy in order to have your own editable version.
- 2024MMM Trading Cards for Student ResearchFolder of images and research collector cards. By Ian Hecht
Lesson Plans, Presentations, & Worksheets in Spanish
Even Moar Educator Materials
- 2024 Learner Awards EnglishCertificates you can edit! Go to File>Make a Copy to make your own version.
- 2024 MMM Guide for Playing with the Youngest LearnersMammals March Madness (MMM) for the Younger Crowd (K-5) Prepped by Jenna Kissel (MMM Education Engagement Coordinator)
- Compendium of the 11th annual March Mammal Madness Tournament 2023Overview of and data generated by the the 2023MMM Tournament
- March Mammal Madness in eLife"Education and Outreach: March Mammal Madness and the power of narrative in science outreach"
- Self-Scoring Tournament BracketThis will allow participants to have a digital MMM bracket of their picks that will automatically update and score their selections as the tournament goes on. If you are looking to run a MMM pool this will also give a convenient way for players to enter their bracket submissions and the pool manager can use the digital pool manager sheet to automatically score up to 40 entries and keep updated standings throughout the tournament
- Contest ManagerThis template allows a Bracket Pool Manager to run a Pool using Google Sheets. The pool manager can use this sheet to automatically score up to 40 entries and keep updated standings throughout the tournament.
- 2024MMM Collector Trading CardsFolder of 2024MMM Collector Trading Cards by Ian Hecht
- Compendium of the 10th annual March Mammal Madness tournament 2022‘Describing at Large Their True and Lively Figure, their several Names, Conditions, Kinds, Virtues (both Natural and Fanciful), Countries of their Species, their Love and Hatred to Humankind, and the wonderful work of Natural Selection in their Evolution, Preservation, and Destruction.
Crowd-Sourced Educator Resources
- Crowd-Sourced Educator Resources Education FormAre you an educator that creates your own additional MMM-related resources? Please share it with the community via this form. MMM thanks you & your colleagues thank you!
- Crowd-Sourced Educator Resources 2024 DatabaseThe spreadsheet database of educator-created resources submitted via the link above so that all educators can access these crowd-sourced resources.
Other Resources for Educators
- USGS Science Resources for TeachersScience information for K-12 grades and college level, including classroom lessons.
- PBS Learning MediaDeveloped by PBS, this resource gives K-12 students a place to access trusted content for homework support.
- TimeTreeTimeTree is a public knowledge-base for information on the evolutionary timescale of life. Data from thousands of published studies are assembled into a searchable tree of life scaled to time.
- Sketchfab 3D modelsA collection of public domain cultural heritage 3D models, including from the Smithsonian Institution, Western Science Center, Denmark's Digital Archive of Natural History, The Digital Atlas of Ancient Life at the Paleontological Research Institution and many more.
- National Geographic Photo ArkPhoto Ark founder Joel Sartore has photographed more than 9,000 species around the world as part of a multiyear effort to document every species living in zoos and wildlife sanctuaries, inspire action through education, and help save wildlife by supporting on-the-ground conservation efforts.
- BirdSleuth K-12Developed for K-12 education by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. It encourages kids to engage with the curriculum and develop their own questions using the scientific process.
- Smithsonian Learning LabThe Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access created the Smithsonian Learning Lab to inspire the discovery and creative use of its rich digital materials—more than a million images, recordings, and texts.
Example Play by Plays
- 2019MMM: Nimravid vs. Tiger QuollNarration of the CAT-e-Gory Round 2 encounter between #2 Nimravid and #7 Tiger Quoll, by Katie Hinde and Patrice K. Connors.
- 2019MMM: Jackrabbit vs. SpringhareNarration of the Jump Around Round 1 encounter between #8 Springhare and #9 Jackrabbit by Jessica Light.
- 2018MMM: Berlin Boar vs BobcatNarration of the Urban Jungle Round 2 encounter between #3 Berlin Boar and #6 Bobcat, by Katie Hinde, Jessica Light, Mauna Dasari, and Anne W. Hilborn
- 2018MMM: Harar Hyena vs. CoyoteNarration of the Urban Jungle Sweet Sixteen encounter between #1 Harar Hyena and #7 Coyote, by Katie Hinde, Tara Chestnut, and Anne W. Hilborn
- 2018-2021 Sports-style summariesSince 2018, MMM team members have written sport-style summaries following the live "play-by-play" narration of simulated combatant encounters on social media.
2024 Theme & Division Announcement!
Other Animal Games We Love!
- METAZOAThe animal kingdom (Metazoa, in Greek) is full of our distant relatives... some more distant than others! Metazooa is a game that tests how well you know our extended family tree.
- ANIMORDLEWordle for Animals for the month of March! Animordle was created by friends of the MMM tournament JT Miller of St. Albans School and Sean Nolan of the Landon School.
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