This Humpty Dumpty crime scene is actually the first ever crime scene that I did with my students. I was a little apprehensive about how my students would be – would it be too much for them? Did I have too many clues? Would they understand what I wanted them to do? Or would I have to provide a lot of prompting?
Honestly, my students blew me away with how amazing they did with this crime scene. They had so much fun working out who pushed Humpty Dumpty off the wall, and it’s the most engaged I’ve seen all of them. Even students who usually show little interest in activities, or don’t have the ability yet to take part in longer activities blew me away! They loved everything about the crime scene. And that’s when I knew that crime scenes had to become a regular activity – and now we do them once a month!
Today in this blog post I’m going to share some sneak peek photos of what our Humpty Dumpty crime scene looked like and the activities that my students had to complete in order to solve the crime.
Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty Off the Wall?
Please note: These crime scenes comes in both spelling options (colour/color, favourite/favorite)
STUDENT OBJECTIVE:
Use the clues provided to investigate who pushed Humpty Dumpty off the wall.
ACTIVITIES INCLUDED / CLUES TO SOLVE
What’s Included?
Includes instructions and example pictures of how you can set up the crime scene. This pack contains 4 possible suspects – and you can choose who actually pushed Humpty Dumpty just by planting the corresponding clues. There is also a suspect information book which contains information on each of the suspects as well as a suspect check list for students to match their clues to the suspects. At the back is a wanted poster for students to fill in with the suspects details once they have worked out who is guilty of pushing Humpty off the wall.
Comprehension Worksheets
A variety of different worksheets that include the ‘alibi’ of the different characters.
Create Your Own Story
Students use the prompts to write their own version of Humpty Dumpty, what happened to him etc.
Certificate
A certificate – which you can edit in powerpoint/keynote to add images of your students and their names. The certificate is to congratulate them for solving the crime.
Interviewing Suspects
Students can take the place of the suspects and answer the questions that are written down, they can also write their own questions for the suspects and then either answer themselves, pass to other students to answer or have staff answer for them.
Detective Write Up Report
Students write up their findings from their investigation.
Newspaper Article
A newspaper article template for students to draw/write how the crime was solved, who the culprit was etc.
Story Sequencing Puzzle
A simple sequencing puzzle where students read the rhyme of Humpty Dumpty at the top then find the matching images and place them into the correct order on the jigsaw.
Have you tried crime scenes with your students? What do you think about our Humpty Dumpty crime scene? Let me know in the comments below.
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