Can You Solve the Mystery?

$19.50

Join the detective squad! Collect evidence with tweezers and gloves, dust and lift fingerprints, and piece together clues to solve the mystery—it’s detective fun in action! Case Closed is a robust school-age unit steeped in activities that enable students to challenge themselves, experiment, and transform information into meaningful content and skills. While the lesson plan incorporates many different Pennsylvania Learning Standards, it focuses on the key learning areas of “Approaches to Learning through Play” and “Language and Literacy Development”. Specifically, students will learn to engage in learning activities that meet the PA Standard Areas of Constructing, Organizing, and Applying Knowledge, as well as Foundational Skills, Writing, and Speaking and Listening.

About our lesson plans:

  • Developed and tested by a team of experienced, certified educators

  • Immediate PDF download upon purchase with unlimited use

  • Activity pages, extension activities, and additional resources included at no cost

  • Developmentally appropriate

  • Printable format that is also digital friendly with links and QR codes embedded in the lesson plans

Camp Outline:

  • Arrival Activity
  • Class Discussion
  • Detect the Truth
  • Let’s Get Moving – Capture the Evidence
  • CSI Evidence Organization
  • Fingerprinting
  • Social-Emotional Learning – CSI Skills
  • CSI Badge
  • Reflection
  • Arrival Activity
  • Class Discussion
  • What’s Missing?
  • Let’s Get Moving – Stuck in the Mud
  • Shoes on Scene
  • Rebuild the Crime Challenge
  • Social-Emotional Learning – Suspect Interview
  • Crime Scene Signifiers
  • Reflection
  • Arrival Activity
  • Class Discussion
  • Card Evidence
  • Let’s Get Moving – Clumps
  • Fingerprint Dusting
  • Fingerprint Art
  • Social-Emotional Learning – Unique Fingerprint
  • Shoe Print Evidence
  • Reflection
  • Arrival Activity
  • Class Discussion
  • Riddle Busters
  • Let’s Get Moving – Secret Agent Obstacle Course
  • Secret Code Clue
  • Create a Code
  • Social-Emotional Learning – Secrets
  • Handwriting Analysis
  • Reflection
  • Arrival Activity
  • Class Discussion
  • Missing Birthday Cake Timeline
  • Let’s Get Moving – DNA Race
  • Alibi Checkers
  • Whose Prints?
  • Social-Emotional Learning – The Art of Interrogation
  • Decode the Birthday Message
  • Reflection