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<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\n“Mysteries” lessons are designed as stand-alone projects which each last 3-4 hours. The “History Mysteries” serve a number of very useful purposes:<\/p>\n Overview What is\u00a0the “Mysteries” approach? “Mysteries” lessons are designed as stand-alone projects which each last 3-4 hours. Through engaging topics, they teach skills of problem formulation, deductive reasoning, independent research, groupwork and structured writing. There is a standard\u00a0teacher lesson plan\u00a0and\u00a0student record sheet \/ markscheme\u00a0for each activity. Also available is a complete case study of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[448],"tags":[422,420,79,421,419],"class_list":["bg-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3701,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699\/revisions\/3701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThrough engaging topics, they teach skills of problem formulation, deductive reasoning, independent research, groupwork and structured writing.
\nThere is a standard\u00a0teacher lesson plan<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0student record sheet \/ markscheme<\/a>\u00a0for each activity.<\/p>\nAlso available is a complete case study of the “Iceman Mystery”, with all the resources needed to run the Mystery with your class!<\/a><\/h4>\n
How do they work?<\/h3>\n
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What’s the point?<\/h3>\n
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\n The Iceman Murder Mystery<\/a><\/td>\n Prehistoric<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n The Murder of Becket<\/a><\/td>\n 1100s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Cats’ Bottoms and the Holy Grail<\/a><\/td>\n 1200s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n The Princes in the Tower<\/a><\/td>\n 1400s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n The Gunpowder Plot<\/a><\/td>\n 1600s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n The Franklin Expedition<\/a><\/td>\n 1840s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n The Causes of the American Civil War<\/a><\/td>\n 1860s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n The Dreadnought Hoax<\/a><\/td>\n 1900s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n The Disappearance of Antoine de St. Exupery<\/a><\/td>\n 1900s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Operation Mincemeat<\/a><\/td>\n 1940s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"