DETECTIVES Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 115
THE DETECTIVES - TEACHER’S GUIDE - Unit 3
Unit 3: Mystery at the Museum (page 73)
Curriculum:
AI: Students will locate relevant
information for specific purposes.
Discuss the title of the unit.
Ask:
What do you think this unit is about? (Accept all logical answers.)
What kind of mystery do you think could happen in a museum?
Now look at the new characters with the class.
Ask:
Who are our new characters for this unit? ( Mike, Bettina, Miss Bates and Fifi, someone
unknown)
What do you think these people do in the story? (Accept all logical answers. Connect the
students’ guesses to the title of the unit.)
Do you remember some of the characters from previous units? (Tom, Kate, Jack, Amy)
Do you expect these characters to play a role in this unit, too? (Accept all logical answers.)
What do you think their role in this unit will be? (Accept all logical answers.)
Part 1: What Happened Last Night?
(pages 74-78)
Discuss the title.
Ask:
What do you think happened last night? (Paintings
were stolen.)
How could we know? (two empty frames)
Curriculum:
SI: Students will answer questions
about familiar topics.
AI: Students will extract information
from visual data.
1. Let’s Talk! (HOTS – Prediction) (page 74)
Ask the questions in the book:
Why do you think Tom, Kate and Amy are at the museum? (There is a mystery to solve.)
Who else is in the museum? (Mike)
Why do you think Mike is there? (He is an artist.)
Do you think Tom and Kate know Mike? (Accept all logical answers.)
What do you see in the picture? (Have the students describe different objects.)
What’s strange about this picture? (empty frames).
What else do we see in the picture? (a roll of paper with a red wax seal)
Do you think these may be clues? (Accept all logical answers.)
So now what do you think the mystery is? (Accept logical answers but try to lead to "who
stole the paintings".)
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