ABSTRACT

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

chapter |1 pages

Introduction

chapter |14 pages

A Mystery at the Mall

chapter |7 pages

The Coaster Caper

chapter |13 pages

The Case of Santa's Blackmail

chapter |8 pages

The Case of the Missing Tiara

chapter |16 pages

A Hollywood Crime