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One-Hour Mysteries

Grades 4-8
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One-Hour Mysteries presents five engaging mysteries designed for students to solve using clues and logical reasoning. Tasks include analysing crime scenes and applying forensic techniques. Mysteries featured are Mystery at the Mall, The Coaster Caper, The Case of Santa's Blackmail, The Case of the Missing Tiara, and A Hollywood Crime.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for educators and students in grades 4-8, this resource supports the development of critical thinking skills such as deductive reasoning, inferring, note-taking, data organisation, and evidence analysis.

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One-Hour Mysteries offers five motivating mysteries that your students can solve using clues and logical reasoning. Your students will become crime scene investigators, analyzing clues found at a crime scene and applying forensic techniques in their analysis.

Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Description

One-Hour Mysteries offers five motivating mysteries that your students can solve using clues and logical reasoning. Your students will become crime scene investigators, analysing clues found at a crime scene and applying forensic techniques in their analysis.

Each mystery includes a complete set of teacher instructions and blackline masters that may be photocopied for classroom use. This exciting book features the following mysteries:

  • Mystery at the Mall,
  • The Coaster Caper,
  • The Case of Santa's Blackmail,
  • The Case of the Missing Tiara, and
  • A Hollywood Crime.

What better way to motivate critical thinking than with a whodunit? Skills include deductive reasoning, inferring, taking notes, organising data, and analysing evidence.

Get ready for real thinking combined with cloak-and-dagger fun!

If you like this book, you'll love its follow-up, More One-Hour Mysteries.

Grades 4-8

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781593631147

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 February 2005

Country: United States

Imprint: Prufrock Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 219.0mm

Height: 276.0mm

Weight: 120g

Pages: 66

About the Author

Mary Ann Carr began writing mysteries for kids to solve while teaching gifted students. She has taught grades 1-7, working with gifted children as a gifted and talented education resource teacher for 14 years. She currently teaches in The College of William and Mary's summer enrichment program. Carr recently retired as a resource teacher and lives on the Chesapeake Bay in a rural county in Virginia.

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