March Mammal Madness
Stoats
- Stoatally Awesome ConverterGet your #stoatistics here! Created by Marc Kissel
BRACKET ZONE
- 2025 Bracket & EDUCATOR Bracket GuideAll the essential info about the tournament for educators to use March Mammal Madness with their learners.
- Link to ALL 2025 BRACKETS without the GuideCommon Name Brackets in English
Common Name Brackets in Spanish
Latin Binomial Bracket
Screen-Reader Bracket
JUMBO brackets that print on 5 pages in English & Spanish
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Educator Starter Pack (English Language
To download - go to FILE>DOWNLOAD
To copy, go to FILE>MAKE A COPY
- Past Tournament Highlight ReelRelive some of the tournament's past controversies!
Educator Expansion Pack (English Language)
Get Hyped
- Compendium of the 12th annual March Mammal Madness 2024 TournamentCompilation of all of the Read All About zines for each match of the 2024 MMM tournament, tournament highlights, usage data, and educator contributions.
- MetazoaMETAZOA "The 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."
- AnimordleANIMORDLE Wordle 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.
Online Bracket Scorers
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.
- MMM Pools by Round: from engaged Grandpa to Bracketologist Extraordinaire!March Mammal Madness Pick'em Pool! Back for 2025! After his grandkid showed him the 2023 bracket, Grandpa PoolsByRound expanded his website for the Mammal Madness. Check it out!
- MMMBrackets: from Learner to Bracketologist Extraordinaire!Now open to everyone!
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 DatabaseThe spreadsheet database of educator-created resources submitted via the link above so that all educators can access these crowd-sourced resources. NOTE - no resources will display until some resources have been submitted!
Trailer and educator materials request
On this holiest of holy mammal holidays, Groundhog’s Day, this woodchuck declares 2.5 more weeks until the bracket drops (2/20) and 5 more weeks until the 13th Annual March Mammal Madness Tournament begins!
WHAT’S IN STORE FOR 2025?! Really great science turned into story, all new classroom animated video recaps, and more! In coming days we will be rolling out lots of pre-season fun... and some construction zones as we replace 2024 content with 2025 content.
In the meantime, overthink this teaser trailer!
ALSO: Educators can request materials via this form (and please take the educator survey, it helps the tournament a lot!).
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.
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.
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