The Case of the Missing Gold Coins: St Patricks Day Mystery Game

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Keeping students engaged before and after breaks can sometimes be a challenge. Are you looking for something to captivate your students before or after break? Then look no further! Thousands of teachers have used these mysteries for back to school activities, engaging students before Thanksgiving, Christmas break, Spring Break, adding fun to Halloween, end of the year activities, reading comprehension, critical thinking, morning work, guided reading, and SO much more! This engaging, fun, and educational mystery game will leave your students begging for more! And the best part is, they won’t even know they’re learning!

Are you ready to watch your student engagement skyrocket?! Students will work together to solve the mystery AND practice a variety of academic skills including; inferencing, critical thinking, problem solving, reading comprehension, and much more! The material is so fun and engaging, students won't even know they are actually learning! This activity can be used anytime of year and is a fantastic way to get students excited about learning.

The Case of the Missing Gold Coins

It's St. Patrick's Day and all the students in Mrs. Flanagan's class are so excited to see the classroom decorated and find the little chocolate gold coins that are left out each year. But when they arrive in the morning, there are no chocolate gold coins to be found! Someone has taken them and it's your job to find out who and save the day!

NOW INCLUDES DIGITAL MYSTERY ACCESS PERFECT FOR DISTANCE LEARNING!

What is included?

Teacher setup instructions with detailed information about each page
Different ways to play the game
Graphic Organizer Breakdown
Inference Sentence Frames
Mystery introduction
25 clues to solve the mystery
6 different graphic organizers to choose from!
Answer key
Discussion Questions
Access to the Digital Mystery
Graphic organizer with example

What skills will we be working on?

There are so many different skills that students will be working on, that it would be impossible to list them all, but here are a few:

Team building
Collaboration
Inferencing
Problem solving
Reading comprehension
Critical thinking

What materials do I need?

Paper and ink to print materials
Just print and go!

What do I need for the digital mystery?

Access to the internet
Access to Google Sites
Access to Google Forms
PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR STUDENTS HAVE ACCESS TO GOOGLE SITES
If you are doing the digital mystery, there are a few things you’ll need to do before you get started. I highly suggest you TEST THE LINK on a student device to see whether or not they have access to the site. Go through the mystery and see how it would look to a student. If you do not have access to Google Sites, you may need to contact your district or school’s IT department for further assistance.

How much time will this activity take?

I would reserve approximately 90 minutes to 2 hours for this activity. This depends on your class and how you implement the game.

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