A murder has been committed, can you solve the crime. You will be given, codes, puzzles and brain teasers to give you vital clues before you look at the suspects. You will need to work out where the crime took place, the time the crime took place, the weapon used and most importantly the killer and their motive. Working in groups, or alone, students must use all their skills to solve this murder. Ideally for students in years 5,6,7 and 8. This resource will get your students thinking, and debating. Why not have a debate trial when they decide who they think the killer is? Although the suspects remain the same, there are three sets of clues (codes/puzzles and brain teasers) which lead to three separate killers letting you use the resource three times with three different outcomes.

Full Murder Mystery lesson, full bespoke storyline Based loosely around Inspector Calls, and would work well with a Sherlock Holmes Scheme of Work Includes PowerPoint explaining how 10-clues lead to the suspect being identified Worksheet included, and full explanation of the mystery itself included in the PowerPoint notes to assist teachers Could work for Year 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 pupils

(updated) Murder at the Mansion! Perfect for Online lesons. A self contained point and click game to evolve inference skills, recognising links and comparisons of evidence through texts and logical development and above all…HAVE FUN! Suitable for all GCSE levels as well as Functional Skills English. This lesson works exceptionally well for cover lessons. Works well on tablets, laptops SMART boards and white-board projectors. Can your students solve the mystery at the Mansion. Each room offers clues to your student detectives. Can they spot the clues and recognise the red herrings!? Can they link, infer and collate the clues to spot the Killer from the innocents? This game works brilliantly in small groups or as a whole class task with lower levels. Encouraging note taking, and spotting small details as well as how to filter and disregard non-relevant information. This lesson has proven popular with all my students and is even a bit of fun for teachers and support staff to join in the investigation. The end also allows for class discussion on multiple topics such as ; crime, misunderstandings, communication skills, teamwork, mysteries, problem solving/puzzles and much more…! Note: for best results, save and run on computer rather than via a cloud or Onedrive.

The Middle Ages The aim of this lesson is to decide what happened to the Princes in the Tower. The lesson begins with some context of the Wars of the Roses and who was next in line to the throne after King Edward IV. Students are required to solve the mystery of the disappearance of the two Princes (Edward & Richard) and are introduced to the main suspects in this murder-mystery investigation. As they examine a range of sources, they will begin to piece together an idea of what happened to them. They will then be required to complete an extended writing task with key words and help if required. This lesson is ideal for sparking curiosity about historical mysteries and encouraging independent thinking. It also includes recently discovered new evidence by Professor Tim Thornton, which sheds new light on the investigation. This lesson includes: Fun, engaging and challenging tasks Storytelling, critical thinking and source analysis A family fortunes style plenary Links to video footage Printable worksheets Differentiated tasks Suggested teaching strategies PowerPoint format, which can be changed to suit (Please note AI has been used to create four images on this PPT)

A fun, engaging Roman numerals maths murder mystery for students to solve. Pupils complete Roman numeral questions to solve the murder. The following objectives are covered: • read Roman numerals to 1000 • recognise years written in Roman numerals • calculate missing Roman numerals in a sequence • add, subtract, multiply and divide Roman numerals Complete answers are provided for all questions. This resource is suitable for Key Stage 2 pupils. The question and answer sheets both come as PDFs. If you buy this resource and are pleased with your purchase, leave a review and receive another up to the value of this one for free. Just email helen-teach@outlook.com with your username, the reviewed resource and the resource you would like for free. More maths murder mysteries: ✦ 6 Maths Murder Mysteries With Answers BUNDLE ✦ Units of Measurement Maths Murder Mystery With Answers ✦ Decimals Maths Murder Mystery With Answers ✦ Time Maths Murder Mystery With Answers ✦ Squares & Cube Numbers Maths Murder Mystery With Answers ✦ Negative Numbers Maths Murder Mystery With Answers Other useful resources: ✦ Negative Numbers Maths Murder Mystery With Answers ✦ Rounding Code Cracker Worksheets Valentine-themed resources ✦ Valentine’s Day Maths Bundle Easter-themed resources ✦ Easter Maths BUNDLE Worksheets Halloween-themed resources ✦ Halloween Maths BUNDLE - Differentiated Worksheets Christmas-themed resources ✦ Christmas Maths BUNDLE Differentiated Worksheets Visit Helen-Teach’s Shop for more resources.

The resource consists of six Power Point Lessons: Lesson 1 -To understand what a stereotype character. Lesson 2 - To understand interrogation and hot-seating. Lesson 3- To understand what cross-cutting is and how is it useful in drama. Lesson 4- To devise a clear plot within a performance. Lesson 5- Rehearsing your Murder Mystery. Lesson 6 - Assessment Performing your Murder Mystery.

A fun, engaging negative numbers maths murder mystery for students to solve. Students add, subtract, multiply and divide negative and positive numbers to solve the murder. Complete answers are provided for all questions. This resource is suitable for upper Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 pupils. The question and answer sheets both come in PDF format. If you buy this resource and are pleased with your purchase, leave a review and receive another up to the value of this one for free. Just email helen-teach@outlook.com with your username, the reviewed resource and the resource you would like for free. More maths murder mysteries: ✦ 6 Maths Murder Mysteries With Answers BUNDLE ✦ Units of Measurement Maths Murder Mystery With Answers ✦ Decimals Maths Murder Mystery With Answers ✦ Roman Numerals Maths Murder Mystery With Answers ✦ Time Maths Murder Mystery With Answers ✦ Squares & Cube Numbers Maths Murder Mystery With Answers Other useful resources: ✦ Negative Numbers Maths Murder Mystery With Answers ✦ Rounding Code Cracker Worksheets Valentine-themed resources ✦ Valentine’s Day Maths Bundle Easter-themed resources ✦ Easter Maths BUNDLE Worksheets Halloween-themed resources ✦ Halloween Maths BUNDLE - Differentiated Worksheets Christmas-themed resources ✦ Christmas Maths BUNDLE Differentiated Worksheets Visit Helen-Teach’s Shop for more resources.

Let your students have the opportunity to develop their detective skills! This lesson is a murder mystery based on the death of William II of England, son of William the Conqueror, who died in mysterious circumstances in the New Forest. Provided with an evidence pack, stuffed full of crime scene pictures, evidence from eye witnesses, autopsy reports, and private letters between the main suspects, students will go through the evidence packs and try to work out just what happened to William - was his death an accident? A murder? A vast criminal conspiracy? This lesson is a fun way to explore the tensions in Norman England, and the problems between church and state that later flourished under Henry II. This lesson can be used to develop skills with analysing evidence, making conclusions using evidence, and developing persuasive arguments.

A fun, engaging units of measurement themed maths murder mystery for students to solve. Pupils complete the decimal questions to solve the murder. The following objectives are covered: • Compare amounts using different units of measure • Convert between different units of metric measure of length, capacity and mass • Convert between different units of time • Complete calculations using different units of measure The units used to measure length include: mm, cm, m and km The units used to measure mass include: g and kg The units used to measure capacity include: ml, cl and l The units used to measure time include: seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks and months Complete answers are provided for all questions. This resource is suitable for upper Key Stage 2 pupils. The question and answer sheets both come as PDFs. If you buy this resource and are pleased with your purchase, leave a review and receive another up to the value of this one for free. Just email helen-teach@outlook.com with your username, the reviewed resource and the resource you would like for free. More maths murder mysteries: ✦ 6 Maths Murder Mysteries With Answers BUNDLE ✦ Decimals Maths Murder Mystery With Answers ✦ Roman Numerals Maths Murder Mystery With Answers ✦ Time Maths Murder Mystery With Answers ✦ Squares & Cube Numbers Maths Murder Mystery With Answers ✦ Negative Numbers Maths Murder Mystery With Answers Other popular resources: ✦ 15 Fun Maths Arithmetic Games ✦ Rounding Code Cracker Worksheets Valentine-themed resources ✦ Valentine’s Day Maths Bundle Easter-themed resources ✦ Easter Maths BUNDLE Worksheets Halloween-themed resources ✦ Halloween Maths BUNDLE - Differentiated Worksheets Christmas-themed ✦ Christmas Maths BUNDLE Differentiated Worksheets Visit Helen-Teach’s Shop for more resources.

There’s been a murder! This exciting, engaging investigation activity allows students to control the direction of their own learning, through speaking, listening, discussing, and reasoning. I initially created these resources to provide something interesting for the students to engage with for their Functional Skills Speaking and Listening discussions, but it has since been used across Citizenship and PSHE departments, as well as by form groups, as a catalyst for social and moral discussions. Students play detectives aiming to solve the case of a death of an old lady. Using a range of evidence, from video clips, to interviews with key suspects, to positioning events on maps, students work in teams to try and solve the case. They must use skills of communication, to decide which leads to prioritise, and which evidence to discount. They also need to use their skills of literacy, to read and understand key evidence, and skills of numeracy to ensure that they keep their case within budget! Included in this resource pack are: - Full PowerPoint lesson talking students through the case; - A range of ‘Exhibits’ - evidence that the students use to build a case, including video clips; - A map of the local area, to help visualise the events leading up to the death; - Budgetting and recording sheets to track their progress; - A prime supsects list; - Clue cards containing interviews with prime supsects; - Full teacher guidance. Considering the time and effort that it took to create these resources, I think that they offer exceptional value. Whenever I have used this activity before, it has taken at least 2-3 lessons, including the introduction, investigation, conclusions, and evaluation. I orignally have used this with lower ability Year 8,9, and 10 groups, but colleagues have adapted it easily for students of all key stages. All images have been cited at the end of the PowerPoint presentation and are licensed for commercial use.

Here is a KS3 Scheme of Work/ Programme of Study for a Murder Mystery project called Darkwood Manor. The program is designed to last 6 to 8 weeks and is filled with exciting tasks to help students enhance their creativity in developing characters and storylines. The main plot revolves around a manor house that is up for sale, and the owners need to prove that it is not haunted. To do this, a competition is held for the general public to spend a night in the manor and report their findings. The project begins with character development, exploration of the rooms, gathering the local villagers’ viewpoints, and culminates in planning a final performance to showcase their findings and announce a competition winner. This 23 page workbook accompanies the PowerPoint – KS3 Drama SOW Darkwood Manor. It was implemented to show evidence of teaching and learning. It is packed with tasks to accommodate all levels of learning and interaction including extra tasks in the back for lessons such as cover and behaviour exclusions. This project is taught in Year 7 but is suitable for KS2 as well. Examples of tasks are: Test your prior knowledge – Key Terminology Reading and annotating a set text, looking at tension and atmosphere. Developing characters for a short performance. Peer Evaluation. Analysing a video for Dramatic Tension. What is Proxemics in Drama. Plan a performance that demonstrates the use of physical theatre. These materials were created by a non-specialist educator with dyslexia, who was tasked with teaching a few hours a week from a complex scheme of work in a department with limited or no resources. Over the past 6 years, PowerPoint teaching resources have been developed to support non-specialists and new teachers, and more recently, work booklets have been introduced to support theory-based learning and evidence of teaching.

Santa has been killed! But who did it? What will happen to Christmas?! Skilled game to use in English class as a fun lesson. Complete with differentiated characters, clues and a worksheet. Can be an exciting Speaking and Listening drama based exercise.

It is the late 19th/early 20th century. Women Suffrage, as a movement, is growing in popularity. A woman is found dead shortly after a Women’s Rights rally. Do you have the detective skills to solve this gruesome murder? This is a point and click adventure game. There are sounds to add immersion as well as small easter egg clickables of real posters, letters, newspaper clippings and facts from the time period. The London Murder mystery! Perfect for online lessons. A self contained point and click game to evolve inference skills, recognising links and comparisons of evidence through texts and logical development and above all…HAVE FUN! Suitable for all GCSE levels as well as Functional Skills English. This lesson works exceptionally well for cover lessons. Works well on tablets, laptops SMART boards and white-board projectors. This game works brilliantly in small groups or as a whole class task with lower levels. Encouraging note taking, and spotting small details as well as how to filter and disregard non-relevant information. This lesson has proven popular with all my students and is even a bit of fun for teachers and support staff to join in the investigation. The end also allows for class discussion on multiple topics such as ; Women’s/ equal rights, protests, Historical figures, crime, misunderstandings, communication skills, teamwork, mysteries, problem solving/puzzles… and much more! Note: for best results, save and run on computer rather than via a cloud or Onedrive. Main Program is a Powerpoint that will automatically run. there is an attached guidance document to help support the lesson.

A fully resourced and original SoL for Year 7 Drama, based on the characters from Cluedo. Each lesson has slides and attached resources, including an evaluation quiz, character and clue cards and suggested ‘red herrings’. Each lesson has additional slides at the end in case you need to teach in a classroom, rather than a practical space, or in the event a cover lesson is needed: no additional adaptation required! All resources are included, although you will need to add one YouTube link in lesson 5. Other than that, it is fully ready to go.

A fun, engaging square and cube numbers maths murder mystery for students to solve. Students identify, add, subtract, multiply and divide squares, cubes and square roots to solve the murder. Complete answers are provided for all questions. This resource is suitable for upper Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 pupils. The question and answer sheets both come as PDFs. If you buy this resource and are pleased with your purchase, leave a review and receive another up to the value of this one for free. Just email helen-teach@outlook.com with your username, the reviewed resource and the resource you would like for free. More maths murder mysteries: ✦ 6 Maths Murder Mysteries With Answers BUNDLE ✦ Units of Measurement Maths Murder Mystery With Answers ✦ Decimals Maths Murder Mystery With Answers ✦ Roman Numerals Maths Murder Mystery With Answers ✦ Time Maths Murder Mystery With Answers ✦ Negative Numbers Maths Murder Mystery With Answers Other useful resources: ✦ Negative Numbers Maths Murder Mystery With Answers ✦ Rounding Code Cracker Worksheets Valentine-themed resources ✦ Valentine’s Day Maths Bundle Easter-themed resources ✦ Easter Maths BUNDLE Worksheets Halloween-themed resources ✦ Halloween Maths BUNDLE - Differentiated Worksheets Christmas-themed resources ✦ Christmas Maths BUNDLE Differentiated Worksheets Visit Helen-Teach’s Shop for more resources.

I'd allow working in pairs to find the murderer, victim, when, where and why. Students will probably require a calculator for this.

A source based lesson about the murder of Tsar Nicholas II. Includes the case file (source booklet), worksheets and Powerpoint.

Pupils need to find out who murdered Ant and Dec and why by solving algebra questions

Another murder! A self contained point and click game to evolve inference skills, recognising links and comparisons of evidence through texts and logical development and above all…HAVE FUN! Suitable for all GCSE levels as well as Functional Skills English. This lesson works exceptionally well for cover lessons. Works well on tablets, laptops SMART boards and white-board projectors. Can your students solve the mystery of Forestfield Estate? Each area offers clues to your student detectives. Can they spot the clues and recognise the red herrings!? Can they link, infer and collate the clues to spot the Killer from the innocents? This game works brilliantly in small groups or as a whole class task with lower levels. Encouraging note taking, and spotting small details as well as how to filter and disregard non-relevant information. This lesson has proven popular with all my students and is even a bit of fun for teachers and support staff to join in the investigation. The end also allows for class discussion on multiple topics such as ; crime, misunderstandings, communication skills, teamwork, mysteries, problem solving/puzzles and much more…! Note: for best results, save and run on computer rather than via a cloud or Onedrive.

For pupils studying the Perfect Tense, this is a whole set of resources based on an exciting murder mystery. It includes, not only the murder mystery, but starter activities, two plenaries, extension documents, lesson plans etc. Pupils work in groups and compete against the other groups to solve the murder first. This set of resources was used for both Ofsted and internally reviews lessons which were rated as 'outstanding'. The objectives are: To enhance thinking skills in order to participate effectively in a team and reflect on learning. To consolidate prior knowledge of the past tense in order to further develop understanding and accuracy.

More simplification of Whieldon's worksheets. This time linking in with a space topic. These resources are really engaging my Level 4 children when applying their maths skills. Hope they work for you.