DETECTIVES Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 184
THE DETECTIVES - TEACHER’S GUIDE - Unit 4
3. b
4. Lakeview Estates
5. on the poster at the entrance to the school
6. Yes. They are starting to build this new neighborhood HERE.
3. Let’s Talk! (HOTS- Inference) (page139)
Curriculum:
Have the students work in pairs.
SI: Students will express personal
The students have to pretend they are one of the members
wishes and opinions.
of the Green Team.
Each pair has to come up with one idea for what to do next.
When they have finished, have pairs make suggestions. Write them down on the board to make a
list.
Then discuss each suggestion and why it’s possible to do and why it’s not possible to do.
Detective Tip No. 3 HOTS (page 139)
Answer Key:
LISTEN
Ask:
What should we listen for? (Anything that is happening around you that may be a clue; e.g
someone explaining something, the place where you are, etc.)
Why is that important? (Have students explain based on what they heard.)
Have all the students copy this from the board into their Detective's Notebooks.
Detective’s Notebook! (2) (page 140)
Have the students open their Detective’s Notebook and answer the questions from their books.
They should make a list of clues that helped them find the answer.
Answer Key:
1. The animals are disappearing from Lakeview Park because someone is destroying their habitat.
2. Someone cut down trees. / Someone is building a road to the lake. / The kids found a plan for
Lakeview Estates.
3. Accept all logical answers.
You may want to use this rubric to assess the students' work.
Rubric
Full points
Answered all the questions
Used complete sentences to answer
Correct use of grammar and spelling
Used capital letters and full stops
correctly
160
Partial
points (5)
None (0)
