A set of interactive, logic-based activities where students read clues to solve each mystery.
Use this fun and engaging interactive PowerPoint with your students as a warm-up or brain break.
Mysteries for Kids
The mini-mysteries in the resource progressively get harder. The star scale on the ‘Choose Your Mystery’ slide helps distinguish the difficulty level of each mystery.
It’s a perfect interactive whiteboard activity for the whole class, promoting collaboration, communication and problem-solving.
Interactive Features
The PowerPoint is best viewed in ‘Slide Show’ mode. This allows for interactive functions to work correctly. Simply ‘View Show’ from the beginning and use the buttons to navigate through to your choice of mystery.
When your students think they know whodunnit, tap the ‘Solve’ button and then choose the culprit to find out if they are correct.
Take a look at the following segment from our Gamified Learning Using Interactive PowerPoints Webinar to see Teach Starter Resource Producer Tom step through this fun logical thinking resource.
My class has loved mini mysteries. They ask to do them every day. They would love another 10 in a powerpoint ready for Term 2. They would also like a few harder ones.
Hi Naomi, Thanks for your feedback here! Great to hear your students love the mini-mysteries. I've passed this along to our team for consideration as they continue to provide resources like this. Thanks!
My class have absolutely loved these mini mysteries as a start of the day activity. Would love to see more of them. The kids did ask if you could add a solution slide explaining each of the answers so they could see how it all connected! Keep up the great work :)
Hi Brent, I'm glad your class has enjoyed the mini-mysteries so much! That sounds like a great idea, can you please submit it as a change request using the Changes & Updates tab above the comment section? Thanks!