Use this Easter themed mystery prompt to see what ideas your students come up with about ‘what could have happened?’
There are plenty of ways you may wish to use this prompt, including using the visual prompt provided in this post. If you would like some ideas, keep on reading..
Lesson Suggestions:
Present the image above to your class. Either show on the Interactive Whiteboard, or print and hang somewhere. If using as an early finisher activity, print and laminate these images as cards.
Either brainstorm as a class or instruct students to think about what could have made the eggs smell strange and what could the strange smell be? Setting a timer for ‘thinking time’ is recommended.
Invite students to share their ideas with the rest of the class. Remind students that there are no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answers. This prompt is to invite creative thinking.
Set a writing task to follow the discussion. Instruct students to pretend they are detectives and must write what they think happened.
The following questions should be addressed in the writing task: describe what they imagine the smell coming from the Easter eggs to be like, where is the setting, who owns the strange smelling Easter eggs on the table, what caused the smell.
Print the template worksheet image below to help plan for this writing task Otherwise you could just use plain lined paper or workbooks to carry out addressing the questions to help ‘build’ the story..
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Remind everyone that there’s no right and wrong, otherwise there would be no room for creative thinking in this task.
To develop this as a writing activity, you could extend it by having your students work towards writing a full story around this scene. Completing the questions in the template above should help develop a plan for their own strange Easter egg mystery story.
As with all mysteries, we all want to know an ‘answer.’ While there is no right and wrong, in fact I hope your students come up with lots of different ideas, I’ve included my own mystery story in the video below to show what happened. You may choose to share this with your kids after they finish writing their own stories to carry out a compare and contrast lesson or just for fun.
After viewing the video, discuss if anyone had any similar ideas in their stories. Do a compare and contrast session with the story above and what students wrote
Further extend this mystery activity by instructing students to write about Slimewort and where they think he could be hiding.
You may have noticed the ‘Math Mystery’ tag in the video, and that is because this case can be further resolved and integrated with a math activity if you wish.
Solve the case! Where is the horrible Slimewort hiding?
If you are interested in extending this mystery activity by integrating it with your math lesson, click on the link image below to find the file case on my Teachers Pay Teachers store. A fun theme for an Easter spiral review math session. Each grade level provides five clues with a variety of math review. Be sure to check out the product description to see the specific math skills covered in that grade version.
It is free to register if you don’t have a login with TPT.
Not sure what a math mystery is? Do you want to know more about how to use them? Check out the video below.
You may also like to read this blog post
‘Five Easy Ways to Use Math Mysteries in your Classroom.’
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