One-Hour Mysteries: Grades 4-8

(Paperback)

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

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, 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

Author Bio

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.