ABSTRACT

Solving robberies, a blackmail, sabotage and murder, student detectives will investigate suspects, their alibis and motives, in addition to a variety of other clues. Each clue will provide evidence necessary to eliminate the suspects one by one until the guilty culprit is found. In addition to using deductive reasoning skills, the students, will take notes, organize data, and analyze evidence in a classroom forensic lab. Each mystery includes complete instructions for the teacher and attractive reproducible pages that outline the mystery and supply clues, one by one until the culprit is found. In addition to introducing deductive logic, the mystery requires students to determine relevant and nonrelevant information.