ABSTRACT
Welcome students to The Private Eye School. Explain to them that at this school, they will master skills used by real-life detectives to solve crimes. Some of these skills include: thinking outside the box, being a keen observer, learning detective vocabulary, asking good questions, making inferences, and making deductions. Use these introductory activities, or courses, to prepare students for the mysteries they will be solving later in this book as a graduate of The Private Eye School. Ask students to draw nine dots on a sheet of paper and then connect all the dots using four straight lines—without lifting their pencil from the paper. Assign individual words to students in groups or by themselves, and instruct students to define the vocabulary terms. Explain to students that detectives must learn to ask good questions because good questions will uncover clues that will lead to the solving of a crime.
