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Identifying Clues to Help Solve a Mystery

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
Students investigate clues in mystery novels. In this genre study lesson, students read the book Sammy Keyes and The Hotel Thief and use the 5 W's to answer questions about the mystery. Students draw conclusions using the details from...
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Is There Mystery in Measurement?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Investigate perimeter and area of polygons! In this measurement lesson, learners use index cards to create rectangles and trace their hand to estimate its area and perimeter.
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The Mystery Box

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students design a mystery box to hold an object related to the timeline of life studies. In this timeline of life lesson, student play a game with fossils and other remnants of past times and guess the era it comes from.
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Predicting a Mystery's Solution

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Awarded the 1998 Edgar Award for Best Children's Mystery, Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief offers readers a chance to hone their predictive and deductive skills along with Sammy Keyes, who the Midwest Children's Book Review calls "the...
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Mystery Eggs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the properties of plastic eggs filled with solids, liquids, and gases and use these observations to hypothesize whether a chicken egg is hard-boiled or raw.
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Mystery of the Malformed Frogs Lesson Plan

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students develop an understanding of how students and volunteers can make scientific observations that can aid conservation. They read the account of the Minnesota New Country School project by Ryan Fisher, Mystery of the Malformed...
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Mysterious Plot Problems

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
Your readers explore plot patterns in mysteries by identifying problems first in Two-Minute Mysteries by Donald J. Sobol and then in  The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. To gain access to the worksheets, graphic organizers and...
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The Cream Cake Mystery - Seeing Patterns

For Teachers K - 6th
A great language arts lesson designed for emerging readers awaits your class. Rhyming words are the focus. Learners play an interactive learning game on the computer that helps them to understand words that rhyme. As with all of these...
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The Mystery of History-Original Sources

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research the events surrounding the Alamo in 1863, and explore the differences between primary and secondary sources of information. They brainstorm lists of items used to research a subject and categorize them as primary or...
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What's That Food?

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Get things cooking with the first lesson in this series on the science of food. Working in small groups, young scientists make and record observations about different mystery foods. These descriptions are then shared with the class and...
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Picture the Process!

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students read "Chasing Vermeer," and then study the author's writing process. They make connections between the book and the author's real life experiences. They then write an original mystery story, following the writing process.
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Crime School Investigations

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars solve a mystery at their school. In this classifying lesson, students find suspects who committed the crime. Young scholars categorize them into race, sex, and fingerprint type. Students show their results in graphs.
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Solving Mysteries!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students solve a mystery. In this lesson on journalism, students learn how writing an article is like solving a mystery by answering the 5 "W" questions. Students solve a mystery provided to them on an attached worksheet.
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How Buds on Trees Survive the Cold (and Related Mysteries)

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students solve a science mystery. In this biology lesson plan, students see how the delicate tissues of a tree bud are insulated so that they can survive the winter and learn how to determine the age of a branches and twigs.
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Red Rock Mysteries Word Scramble

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In this Red Rock Mysteries book series word search worksheet, students locate the 21 words or names listed in the puzzle and circle them to solve the word puzzle.
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Mysteries of Egypt

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students watch a video about the mysteries of Egypt. They discuss philanthropic acts performed in ancient Egypt. They locate Egypt and landmarks on a map. They finally create a replica of an Egyptian artifact after researching the object.
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Puzzle Mystery

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students solve the mystery of which painting they are reproducing by sketching. They determine the mood and imagery in artwork.
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Number Gumshoe

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this mystery numbers game worksheet, learners use the 15 clues as well as their multiplication and division skills to solve 15 math riddles.
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Mystery Marauders

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars investigate plants with pest damage. In this plant life lesson, students study plants that have been damaged by insects. Young scholars try to discover which insects are causing the damage.
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Bison Mystery Box

For Teachers K - 8th
Natural design is amazing. Young scientists connect the features of a bison to an assortment of everyday items. A bison's tail is an ideal flyswatter, and a pot stores water just like a bison's stomach. The lesson connects the usefulness...
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Math Maven Fractions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners solve fraction mysteries.  For this fractions lesson, students read Math Maven's Mysteries and use problem-solving and critical thinking skills to solve the mysteries. 
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Decoding a Mystery Message from Space

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students examine a message sent from outer space and do their best to interpret its meaning. In this problem solving lesson, students investigate a code sent to them from "outer space." The students collaborate with their classmates to...
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Mystery State #46

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In this United States mystery worksheet, pupils determine which state is described by the 5 clues listed on the sheet and then mark it on the outline map of the United States.
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Mystery State #49

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In this United States mystery worksheet, young scholars determine which state is described by the 5 clues listed on the sheet and then mark it on the outline map of the United States.

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