(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.

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

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.

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.

Suitable for KS3 or KS4. This murder mystery style activity is designed to engage your pupils on solving equations both with an unknown on one or both side of the equation while having them determine the details of a crime which took place. This can be used as a class or homework activity or an extension task Answers are included.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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 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)

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.

Get your students thinking and working like historians with this lesson. I have used this lesson for several years as part of a project on developing history skills in my pupils. Students have to infer and reach a reasoned judgement based on the evidence. This includes primary sources in the form of artefacts and secondary reports. The class works in pairs to decide why and how the man found in the peat bog in Denmark died. They assess the evidence to decide whether it was: Murder Suicide or Sacrifice (you can choose the most appropriate option depending on the needs of your students) Illness/natural causes. The evidence is not given to them all at once, instead the teacher drip feeds it throughout the lesson. This is in a bid to challenge preconceived ideas and see if pupils will change their minds when faced with new information or sources. The last task is to write a paragraph or more (a bit like a mini DBQ) explaining what the different options were and what they believe happened to Tollund Man based on the evidence they have collated. There is a very basic outline that can be used if it is wanted but students are encouraged to write their views based on the evidence in their own way using PEEL. The final piece can be marked using the grade boundaries on the end slide. The lesson fits with the common core requirement for students to analyse, evaluate and consider causation. The grade boundaries/descriptors are skills based: i.e: identify, then describe then explain then evaluate at the top end of ability. The zip file contains: fully animated powerpoint Clues from the crime scene worksheet Answer table worksheet with choice of options ‘WH’ questions worksheet. Full lesson plan description This lesson is engaging and can be used as a stand alone or as part of a project on historical skills. It works very well as an introduction to History during secondary school transition at Year 7. TERMS OF USE: This download (free or purchased) is for your own personal use in your classroom or your home. Please do not share my resources with others unless given explicit consent by me. Please direct them to my store instead. **This download MAY NOT be used in whole or in part on any distance learning course platforms including, but not exclusive to, Outschool or Udemy. ** You may not share this download. You may not alter any item in this download, resell and claim as your own work. Similarly, you may not sell or share these resources with anyone and you may not use the contents of this download to create anything for commercial purposes or other commercial products. If you are an education board or school and would like to use my resources district wide, please contact me about licensing. © Amy Hughes (MsHughesTeaches) All rights reserved.

On Christmas Eve a train gets stranded in a snowdrift in the middle of nowhere. A group of passengers decide to leave the carriage and take refuge in a nearby hotel, only to discover in the morning, trapped and cut off from the outside world, that one of them has been murdered… Visually attractive Christmas murder mystery story lesson complete with all resources needed for a fun engaging lesson. Power point includes: * Title page. * Complete lesson objectives and outcomes (WALT and WILF) - with the focus on higher attaining students to use descriptive language for effect and to build up tension and drama within the story. * Lesson starter – winter weather anagrams. * Story scenario – dramatic scenario (as above) * Copy and complete first paragraph starter prompt – used in order help students start the story effectively (also given as a handout resource.) * Mini word bank. * Mini-prompt paragraphs two and images to help students write. * Fantastic “murder mystery bingo” plenary activity with teacher’s callers card and 30 unique bingo cards (with instructions on how to best play the game included.) * All resources included at the end of the Power Point. If you liked this resource, you will also enjoy – A Spooky Christmas Story: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spooky-christmas-story-full-lesson-11177327 (Royalty free images included and bingo cards created from myfreebingocards.com.)

UPDATED FOR SUMMER 2024! After the Santa and Easter murder mysteries were such a success, I thought I would create a summer one for use on those last few days in the summer term to go alongside the quizzes or other activities you might do every year. This mystery follows the murder of Mr. Rossi who was (unfortunately) still in his ice cream van when someone melted it! There are 20 suspects and 5 clues for teams to solve before gaining access to the final clue, which will allow them to start eliminating suspects. The clues rely on team work to complete them well within an hour, and require problem solving skills as well. Some clues are (loosely) linked to science; there is a classification key and a speed calculation, but the main aspect is team work and problem solving. Students will need the case brief printed, and some of the slides in the PowerPoint to complete this. The slides needed are labeled in the notes section. There is a leader board so you are able to display the progress of each team. I allow teams to lock in an answer whenever they want, but I won’t tell them if they’re right until the end. They can work on the clues in any order but MUST have completed all 5 before accessing final clues. all answers are provided in the PowerPoint. Enjoy

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

This Stranger Things–themed English Murder Mystery is a fast-paced, highly engaging way for KS3 students to revise grammar, spelling and punctuation. The class set of A Christmas Carol has disappeared—students must analyse clues, correct English errors and eliminate suspects to solve the case. The activity reinforces key literacy skills including homophones, capital letters, suffixes, adjectives, adverbs, contractions, synonyms, antonyms and basic punctuation. Perfect for lessons, cover work, revision sessions or end-of-term fun. Includes: • Full murder mystery activity • Character, location and time clues • Grammar-based tasks and errors to spot • Printable worksheets and full solution • Ideal for KS3 English and literacy intervention If you enjoy this resource, please consider leaving a review—it really helps.

I have loved altering the mini mystery murders posted by Whieldon. (Great ideas!) This mini mystery is suitable for children working securely at L4 and needing to apply their maths skills in one and two step problems to reach L5