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

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.

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 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.

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. 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.

A fun, engaging time maths murder mystery for students to solve. Pupils complete time questions to solve the murder. The following objectives are covered: • convert time between analogue and digital 12- and 24-hour clocks • calculate the duration of events • converting from hours to minutes, minutes to seconds, years to months, weeks to days • know the number of days in each month, year, leap year, and other time periods such as fortnight and decade 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. 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 ✦ 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.

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. 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.

Football / World Cup Maths Murder Mystery - great for revision, end of year, football lovers. Suitable and differentiated for KS2. Topics included - addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, measurement (time, perimeter), fractions, square numbers, etc. Celebrate the coming World Cup with this fun and engaging activity. Answers included on the last page. Please feel free to browse my other murder mysteries: Addition and Subtraction Telling time General Revision General Revision Fractions General Revision Halloween

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.

Level: Intermediate Aim: Students learn 6 new words related to crime and practise using adverbs of certainty. Students work together in 2 murder mystery roleplays in which they need to piece together the evidence to catch the killers. Lesson Vocabulary: Crime Scene Evidence Murder weapon Witnesses Suspects Motive Lesson Grammar: It can’t be… It probably isn’t… It may/might/could be… It probably is… It definitely is…

Worksheet where students work in pairs to solve a 'murder' mystery using number. Ideal for KS3 students.

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.

(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.

Resources include a Powerpoint presentation with a description of the victim, suspects and a series of clues. Confession worksheet will require pupils to put paragraphs in order to reveal the mystery. Teacher copy also included.

This is a murder mystery used to introduce my year 7 class to using evidence in History

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. 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.

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

Wilbur has been murdered! You are a group of trainee detectives, this is your final assessment and you have been assigned a real case to investigate. Your team must interview the suspects, take notes and look at the evidence. After this, you will discuss and decide on the murderer, motive and reason why you chose them, presenting this to your lead detective (the teacher) and the rest of the trainee groups. This seaside murder mystery can be run in any classroom. This should take three lessons, one for preparation, one for interviewing, and one for presenting findings and accusations to the class. You are provided with the information for 8 suspects, resources and clues. Full instructions. recommended age 14+

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.

Comparison grid for 'The Speckled Band' by Arthur Conan Doyle and 'Lamb to the Slaughter' by Roald Dahl.