Mystery Lesson

1. Mystery Lesson

2. 3rd Grade

3. Mystery of the flying orange pumpkin E Kel

4. What is a mystery? • What special Vocabulary words do we use when we talk about mysteries?

5. Mystery Activities • Play Mystery Memory Match • Assessment Template • Demonstrate on Destiny • Graph

6. Vocabulary • alibi • clue • crime • detective • evidence • mystery • red herring • sleuth • suspect • victim • witness • an excuse the suspect uses to show they were somewhere else when the crime was committed. • a fact or object that helps to solve mysteries • an act that is against the law • a person who investigates mysteries and gathers information • something that helps prove who committed the crime • something that is secret and unknown • a false lead that throws the investigator off track • another name for a detective • a person who is believed to have possibly committed the crime • someone who is harmed or suffers some loss because of the crime • someone who saw the crime being committed and can provide some information

7. How many have each bookWhich is the most popularHow many more students read ______ than _____?

8. 4th Grade

9. Riddle • A boy is hurt in a bicycle accident. The ambulance driver rushes the boy to the hospital and calls the child’s father, Dr. Smith. Dr. Smith meets the ambulance at the emergency room and becomes hysterical when he sees his injured son. In the operating room, where the boy is taken for surgery, Dr. Smith gazes into the child’s face, and then says “I’m glad this is not my son!” • Why is Dr. Smith not the boys’ father?

10. Questions • What makes a book a mystery? • What different characters do you find in a mystery? • What other words come to mind when we talk mysteries?

11. Vocabulary • alibi • clue • crime • detective • evidence • mystery • red herring • sleuth • suspect • victim • witness • an excuse the suspect uses to show they were somewhere else when the crime was committed. • a fact or object that helps to solve mysteries • an act that is against the law • a person who investigates mysteries and gathers information • something that helps prove who committed the crime • something that is secret and unknown • a false lead that throws the investigator off track • another name for a detective • a person who is believed to have possibly committed the crime • someone who is harmed or suffers some loss because of the crime • someone who saw the crime being committed and can provide some information

12. The case of the Baffled Bear By Cynthia Rylant E RYL

13. Questions about the book • What was the problem that had to be solved? • Who were the suspects? • What were the clues that lead you to suspect the character? • Did you guess the correct solution before you reached the end of the story • Does the solution make sense?

14. 5th Grade

15. Mystery Lesson • Unscramble • Mystery Vocabulary • Checklists • Read: The case of the sticky Bruch (pg141) • Read: Detective LaRue

16. Vocabulary • alibi • clue • crime • detective • evidence • mystery • red herring • sleuth • suspect • victim • witness • an excuse the suspect uses to show they were somewhere else when the crime was committed. • a fact or object that helps to solve mysteries • an act that is against the law • a person who investigates mysteries and gathers information • something that helps prove who committed the crime • something that is secret and unknown • a false lead that throws the investigator off track • another name for a detective • a person who is believed to have possibly committed the crime • someone who is harmed or suffers some loss because of the crime • someone who saw the crime being committed and can provide some information