Summary
The rotation stations in this lesson are culminating activities after our unit of reading and writing mysteries as a whole class, with small groups, and with partners. These “Super Sleuth Stations: Mysteries and Mayhem” are all about student choice. The students choose what station they want to go to and complete it and then travel to another station of their choice. The students choose what they want to write about, what they want to do research on, and what they want to read.
TIPC Ratings
Students had to read carefully through the mysteries in order to pull out the clues to be able to solve the mystery. However, research was not a major component of this lesson.
This lesson falls in the Ideal/Target Range for Communication & Collaboration. The students used Edmodo to communicate with their peers. They wrote mysteries and posted them on Edmodo for their peers to try to solve the mystery. In the other stations, the students worked as a team to solve the mysteries that they were presented with. They reflected on their work through a student self-evaluation and using the provided teacher rubric.
This lesson falls in the Approaching range for Critical Thinking and Problem Solving. At every station students are either using the clues to solve a mystery or writing a mystery of their own. Students reflected on their work through a self-evaluation form.
This lesson falls in the Ideal/Target range for Creativity and Innovation. The students were asked to create a game/presentation, write a mystery, and create a caption for a mysterious picture. The students had a variety of opportunities to be creative and develop meaningful, original work. Student reflected on their products through the use of a self-evaluation form.
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Mysteries&Mayhem
Contents:
- Lesson Plan
- Rubric for Literacy Stations
- Station Activities and Work Samples
- Student Self-Evaluation
