Inference Activity Solve This Mystery - Back to School Team Building Activity
Inference Activity Solve This Mystery - Back to School Team Building Activity: This engaging back to school video team-building activity will allow your students work together to solve a real-life mystery about a buried ship in the middle of Downtown San Francisco! Start the lesson by hooking students in with a hand-drawn video, created by the talented John Spencer, that introduces the backstory and prepares them to solve the inference mystery! Watch the preview video above to get a sneak peek of the video included and download the preview to get a closer look at all of the materials (organizers, handouts, checklists, rubrics etc.) you can use to implement the activity in your classroom. There is absolutely no prep required to implement this lesson and assignment!
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How This Back to School Mystery Inference Activity Works:
- Students watch a hand-drawn video that introduces the activity to students. This video is highly engaging and will hook your students immediately. Watch the video preview on the product page to get a sneak peek.
- Use the eye-catching PowerPoint presentation to introduce the activity in more detail to your class and guide you through each element of the lesson and activity.
- Use the instructions, graphic organizers, checklists, handouts, and teacher rubric to implement the icebreaker team building icebreaker activity.
What's Included in This Back to School Inference Activity:
➡️ Introductory Video: Use this highly engaging hand-drawn video to introduce the mystery to students. The video explains the true story of a construction crew who find a buried ship underground in the middle of San Francisco! Students will be tasked with theorizing and inferring why it was there.
➡️ Teacher instructions: Use the detailed teacher instructions to guide you in successfully using this back to school inference mystery activity! You'll feel totally confident implementing the lesson with these instructions.
➡️ Teacher Presentation: A PowerPoint presentation is included to guide you through all elements of the lesson and activity. The slides also reveal the true story of how the ship ended up there!
➡️ Buried Ship Mystery Student Handout: Distribute this handout to students after they watch the video. The handout includes all the information from the video, so they can reference the story while they complete the inference activity.
➡️ Inferring Information Brainstorming Sheet: Students will work in groups to complete this brainstorming sheet with prompts to help them infer information and theorize why the ship ended up there.
➡️ Our Final Theory Graphic Organizer: Finally, students will make a final theory about why the ship was buried there with reasoning and evidence to support their findings.
What Teachers Are Saying About This Back to School Inference Activity:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This created much discussion with my students. They had some imaginative ideas about how the ship came to be buried in downtown San Francisco. Students needed to work collaboratively and use inquiry skills. I will definitely be using this next year.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ We loved this team building and critical thinking activity! The kids were engaged and it's something they continue to talk about!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My students really enjoyed digging into the mystery. They really took advantage of the anything goes approach to solving the mystery and came up with some wacky solutions. I used this as a team building activity to also reintroduce us back into the classroom and it worked like a charm.
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