Mystery Box Lessons: What´s Inside?
Inferencing is a skill that student struggle with in all subjects; explore the page below to see how you can use mystery not only engage your students, but provide them with opportunities to practice questioning, discovery, and inferencing.
Mystery Box Mondays...
Throw a little mystery and suspense into Mondays with a Mystery Box Monday. Place an object, character name, idea, picture etc. into your mystery box. Display a question or challenge that will allow the kids to not only use their inferencing skills, but also will reinforce prior learning and challenge them to discover something new. See the math example below:
Guess Who?
Guess Who Lesson
Have your students use text evidence, inference, create questions and analyze evidence to guess who.
Have your students use text evidence, inference, create questions and analyze evidence to guess who.
Mystery Box...Math Madness!
Create a series of problems that your student can solve. If they get it right their answer will unlock the combination on the mystery box! Eventually you can get your kids creating these fun and engaging activities for each other.