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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Improving Deductive Reasoning Skills

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars recognize problems that may be solved using deductive reasoning, and develop aids to help them in solving these problems. They produce their own deductive reasoning puzzles for other students to solve.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Double Quiz: Present Simple Questions/ Trivia

For Students 6th - 10th
In this ESL online interactive grammar instructional activity, students answer 15 multiple choice questions regarding the use of present simple tense verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Deductive and Inductive Reasoning

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze and distinguish between deductive and inductive arguments. They produce, construct and evaluate deductive and inductive arguments. Each student reviews a list of key terms dealing with both types of arguments and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Lost World (4 parts)

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders view this science fiction adventure, though not scientifically accurate, creates opportunities to explore the extinction of dinosaurs and to explore evolution.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"All Day Nightmare"

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students read an "All Day Nightmare" by R.L. Stine. They use the interactive book to choose the plot at the end of each chapter. They also complete an open-ended story.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Web Quest on "How to Write a Mystery."

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students complete a Web Quest on How to Write a Mystery. They listen to or read a short mystery story and discuss its elements. They write an outline of a mystery story using all of the elements.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Science: Criminalistics - A New Look at Crime

For Teachers K - 12th
Students examine the world of forensic science, focusing on fingerprint analysis. In the lesson, they implement a method by which fingerprints of class members are categorized and identified. Elementary students study classification...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Do you know your Hats Quiz

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this hats worksheet, students look at pictures of hats and choose which name fits the hat best. Students complete 20 multiple choice questions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Archaeology as a Career

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read about archaeology as a career. They develop a list of questions they would like to ask an archaeologist and then actually interview an archaeologist on the future of archaeology as a career.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dancing Flamingos

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students, through the media of dance and drama, discover how an animal's behavior helps them to survive in the environment. They practice performing or mimicking how a flamingo's acts and positions itself when being observed. The...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Get a Clue: What is There and What Isn't

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students practice the ability to examine and analyze evidence and extract information that eventually leads to deductive conclusions. After evaluating the objects discovered in a box, students write a one-page reflection paper of their...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Writing A Summary - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars explore short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. For this literature lesson, students read one of his short stories listed and then summarize the story in a written piece.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Unveiling the Secrets of Saturn

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Learners read and study an article then answer questions on Saturn.  In this investigative lesson students identify ways space exploration has helped humanity and then they search the Internet for space pictures and sketch a drawing...
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Hound of the Baskervilles 1: Meet Sherlock Holmes

For Students 9th - 10th
Students investigate the iconic and much-beloved character of Sherlock Holmes, as well as the mystery genre, in this excerpt from Masterpiece's 2002 version of The Hound of the Baskervilles. As students are introduced to Holmes, they use...
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Website
Other

The Sherlock Holmes Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the world's most famous address, 221b Baker Street in London, the home of the Sherlock Holmes Museum. Site includes information about visiting, biographical information on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and several Sherlock Holmes stories.
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eBook
World Wide School

World Wide School: Etext of Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the complete etext to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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eBook
World Wide School

World Wide School: Etext of Return of Sherlock Holmes

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the complete etext to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Who Is Sherlock Holmes?

For Students 9th - 10th
Who exactly is Sherlock Holmes? Who's the real "great detective," and where do we find him? Neil McCaw traces the evolution of Sherlock. [4:53]
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Handout
Bibliomania

Bibliomania: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

For Students 9th - 10th
Here, read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes." This website provides full texts of "A Scandal in Bohemia," "A Case of Identity," "The Red-Headed League," "The Boscombe Valley Mystery," "The Five Orange Pips,"...
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the complete text of the novel Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.
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eBook
Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
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eBook
University of South Florida

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Lit2 Go: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical material about Doyle, and complete texts of many of his works. These include: "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," "Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes," "The Return of Sherlock Holmes," "His Last Bow," "The Mystery of Cloomber," and...
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Website
Other

Sherlockian.net : Everything the Web Offers on S. Holmes

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an incredibly extensive site that provides any information you could possibly want about Sherlock Holmes, the detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Activity
Shmoop University

Shmoop: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explores the characters, plot and themes found in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Read about the symbols, imagery and allegories presented in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

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