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Excellent links to lesson plans, and discussions about mysteries |
A mystery on the Net. It's all done for you, all you have to do is follow the instructions. |
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Official Kids Love A Mystery Week site with contests, and lesson plans. If you love reading or writing about mysteries then this is for you! |
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Learning with Mysteries: Lesson plans |
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This is a nice lesson plan before you start this school web project. |
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Remember Nancy? this is a place for kids and adults |
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Murder Mystery: How do forensic scientists help solve murders? |
Do you want to teach about fingerprints and how police use them to help solve mysteries? I like this site because of it's ready to use lesson plans and question/ answering to students. |
For Grade 6 science. Several links related to fingerprinting. |
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DEFINITELY go here. There are more links to mysteries than you'll ever need. |
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Links to conventions, mystery writers, contests, newsgroups, mystery organizations, etc. |
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A very well written dissertation about TV mysteries and their counterpart in books. This would be a good unit plan in a high school English class. |
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A place to solve mini-mysteries everyday, authors links, etc. |
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Who Done It? Sleuthing & Self-discovery for 7th & 8th Grade Creative Writing Students |
An extensive unit for mystery writing. |
The author offers a lesson plan to use with mystery books |
And tons more down
here... these are mostly for kids, but grown-ups would like them
too!
FBI
Kids' and Youths' Page Sci/Tech:
Police play it by ear
Did you know that you can now identify people by their
ears?? Read it here in this BBC news article. Police
are compiling what is believed to be the world's largest
computer database of ear prints to be used in the same way
as fingerprint evidence in linking suspects to
crimes. Forensic
Entomology Pages,
International
Have you ever wondered about what happens to bodies when
they die? Or, how can insects help in finding the cause of
death? When the corpse is crawling with maggots, how
does the entomologist proceed to estimate the time of
death? Kiddonet.com
There are games here, as well as clicking on the "Do you
want to solve a mystery?" And they give prizes
too! The
Mystery Page
Become KC Rodgers, a forensic detective without a clue!
Apply your detective skills and forensic knowledge to
identify the kidnapper of Susie Van Konkel. In this game,
you must search the house for
evidence... Saturn
Space Hotel: The Mystery of the Stolen
Plans
- Are you a good enough detective to work out who stole
the professor's plans? Find out with this mystery created by
primary school children in the UK. Interactive
Adventure: Moon Rock -
Try your hand at this interactive space adventure
story written by a class of 8-10 year olds. Museum
of Unnatural
Mysteries
This is a slightly bizarre, cyberspace, science museum
site for all ages. Are there really flying saucers?
What killed the dinosaurs? Is there something ancient and
alive in Loch Ness? The Museum takes a scientific look at
these, and other, questions. Someone
in Time -
Every month, Discovery Channel Online has a new mystery
history guest. Look at the clues A.
Pintura: Art Detective
- Play this game and learn about artists such as Picasso,
Van Gogh, Raphael, and Gauguin while you help solve a
mystery! If anything, the pictures are
great... Ace
on the Case:
Secrets@Sea
- Fun online investigative game exploring topics in Ocean
Science. Learn about I
Can Do That!
- This fun site helps you learn about DNA, RNA, cells,
protein, and cloning. Mission:
Drosophila
- Become a secret agent tracking down the secrets of
DNA. Mysteries
in the Millions
Use your skills of deduction and inference to solve these
mysteries. You will also need to use your logical thinking
skills while doing some of our puzzling
mysteries.
Find out
which case in the USA made officials aware why
fingerprinting was so important. What is the name of this
famous case? This is for kids interested in forensic
science, DNA testing, polygraph testing, fingerprinting and
other cool stuff.
In another
section, you can read what it takes to be a forensic
scientist with job descriptions of some of the main
specialties in the field. Watch a video if you have
Real Player plug-in and feel free to ask questions about
information or jobs in the Forensic Science Forum. Your
questions will be answered by a forensic
scientist.
and figure out
who the person is!
oceanography,
marine animals, and water pollution as you collect clues to
solve a mystery.
Email the
Crumbmaster
if you have any questions.