One-Hour Mysteries

One-Hour Mysteries
Author: Mary Carr
Publisher: Prufrock Pr
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2005-06-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781593631147

Children become detectives when they solve the mysteries and discover "who done it" in each of the five crimes in this book. Includes deductive reasoning skills, taking notes, organizing data, and analyzing evidence. Teacher's guide, with full solutions begin each chapter.

More One-Hour Mysteries

More One-Hour Mysteries
Author: Mary Ann Carr
Publisher: One-Hour Mysteries
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781593631093

Children become detectives when they solve the mysteries and discover "who done it" in each of the five crimes in this book. Includes deductive reasoning skills, taking notes, organizing data, and analyzing evidence.

Private Eye School - More One-Hour Mysteries for the Classroom

Private Eye School - More One-Hour Mysteries for the Classroom
Author: Mary Ann Carr
Publisher: PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2007-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1593632940

In this companion to her best-selling books, One-Hour Mysteries and More One-Hour Mysteries, Carr presents five exciting new mysteries for student detectives to tackle.

The Private Eye School

The Private Eye School
Author: Mary Ann Carr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000489698

In this companion to her best-selling books , Carr presents five exciting new mysteries for student detectives to tackle. Students will sharpen their sleuthing skills after completing the course designed for great detectives at the Private Eye School, before moving on to tackle mysteries such as “The Vandal Strikes” and “The Great Electric Train Robbery.” Along the way, students will learn to analyze bloodstains and lip prints, while decoding messages and solving challenging puzzles. Each of these mysteries requires students to think outside of the box, organize data, take notes, make inferences, and use deductive reasoning skills. The mysteries include a teacher's guide and attractive reproducible pages for students to use in their investigations. The Private Eye School also provides directions for creating a classroom learning center, in which students write their own mysteries, create logic puzzles, and sketch crime scenes. Grades 4-8

More One-Hour Mysteries

More One-Hour Mysteries
Author: Mary Ann Carr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2021-09-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 100049473X

Teachers loved Mary Ann Carr's One-Hour Mysteries and asked for more! In this follow-up to her wildly popular book, Mary Ann Carr offers five motivating mysteries that your students can solve using clues and logical reasoning. Your students 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: Miss Moneybags' Last Will and Testament, The Doggone Mystery, The Case of Forged Houdini, Who Took the Video Game, and Aunt Sally's Secret. 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! Grades 4-8

The Midnight Hour

The Midnight Hour
Author: Elly Griffiths
Publisher: Brighton Mysteries
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2021-12-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 035842416X

Newly minted PI Emma Holmes and her partner Sam Collins are chosen for a high-profile case: retired music-hall star Verity Malone hires them to find out who poisoned her husband, a theater impresario. Verity herself has been accused of the crime. Soon Emma realizes that Verity's life intersects closely with her own. The team of female PIs circle closer to the killer, with the Brighton police hot on their tail. The clues suggest they're looking for a criminal targeting the old music-hall crew. How long will it be before that trail leads straight back to Max? Print run 3,000.

Mystery Disease

Mystery Disease
Author: Mark A. Bohland
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2021-09-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000494802

A serious illness is sweeping through town. Why are people getting sick? What is the source of this disease? With this problem-based learning unit, students become public health workers as they track down the source of a mysterious illness. Working in teams to solve the real-world problem and present their findings, they experience genuine, higher order learning. Decisions they make affect the outcome of the simulation. The activities combine science, social studies, math, research, thinking, cooperation, and speech skills in one great unit. This guide includes everything you need—teacher's directions and student information in the form of memos and medical reports.This open-ended scenario will draw students into a real-life drama. Allow your students to solve more real-life problems in Crime Scene Detective, Detective Club, Mystery Science, and The Great Chocolate Caper. Grades 5-8

The Great Chocolate Caper

The Great Chocolate Caper
Author: Mary Ann Carr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000489612

Reginald Van Feisty, owner of the world-famous chocolate factory, Dutch Delight Chocolates, is excited about his brand-new recipe for chocolate. But, before he can manufacture even the first chocolate bar, the recipe is stolen! Have your students discover who stole Van Feisty's famous chocolate recipe and they'll not only be great detectives, they'll be masters of logical thinking. There are nine suspects, but which one is guilty? This mystery becomes a vehicle for teaching logical thinking. In solving the mystery, students will: differentiate between valid conclusions and invalid assumptions, use syllogisms to reach valid assumptions, recognize false premises, solve deductive matrix puzzles, and decode a secret message. Grades 5-8

Motel of the Mysteries

Motel of the Mysteries
Author: David Macaulay
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 97
Release: 1979-10-11
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0547770723

It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization.

"Who Could That Be at This Hour?"

Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2012-10-23
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0316225029

Before the Baudelaires became orphans, before he encountered A Series of Unfortunate Events, even before the invention of Netflix, Lemony Snicket was a boy discovering the mysteries of the world. In a fading town, far from anyone he knew or trusted, a young Lemony Snicket began his apprenticeship in an organization nobody knows about. He started by asking questions that shouldn't have been on his mind. Now he has written an account that should not be published, in four volumes that shouldn't be read. This is the first volume.