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Engage your students in murder mystery games in the classroom throughout the year with this bundle of my best-selling mysteries!There are many opportunities throughout the year to use these mysteries: Before, during, or after a mystery unitAs a class rewardAs an icebreaker at the beginning of the yePrice $34.00Original Price $42.50Save $8.50
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Engage your students in a murder mystery game in the classroom or virtually!
I use this lesson before starting my mystery unit and the students love it. They enjoy taking on the roles of the characters, and they enjoy the competition and challenge of trying to find the vandal.
**New!!! I've included a virtual option for both versions of this mystery. Perfect for distance learning. This means I've included links for character cards, directions, and maps to be sent to students and explained how to facilitate discussion using Zoom or other virtual settings.
This product includes:
-An introduction sheet with the background of the incident: a student's art project was destroyed right before the annual art contest. She was able to list off names of who it could have been before being led out of the classroom by an administrator. All of the suspects (your students) are in the classroom. They start their own investigation into who vandalized the student's artwork.
-17 character cards that detail how each character knows the victim, where they were during the incident, and any other pertinent information (including lots of red herrings). This activity works well with class sizes of 11-34. Any class over 17 can double up two students to one character. There are also six characters who can be removed from the set and the story will still make sense.
Idea from a customer on how to use this with smaller classes or teaching virtually: "For those with smaller classes, I did this with a class of 9 students. I tried to assign what I felt were the most important players to the students in my class, and then I used Flipgrid to record interviews with the other personas. I pasted QR codes from Flipgrid around the room so students could hear from the others involved."
-A copy of the school map so students can keep track of who was where when the incident occurred.
-A notes sheet to detail the different characters, motives, and alibis. I include a sample answer key of the notes sheet so teachers can quickly reference different characters and check student understanding.
-An assessment sheet. Students must detail a few characters who are innocent, a red herring, and of course who the vandal is. For each they need to explain what clues support their answer.
An engaging way to focus on inferences, characterization, and motive!
****New!!! Now includes two versions of the same mystery. Each version has a different vandal with different motives and clues while using the same setting and introduction so one class won't spoil it for another*****
Want more? Here is a new Middle School Classroom Mystery for your students to solve!
Classroom Murder Mystery Activity and Classroom Murder Mystery Activity II work best for older students since the vocabulary is more advanced and the student conflicts are more mature in content.
