One-Hour Mysteries
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.
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.
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, organizing data, and analyzing 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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