Task

• Students read, listen to or view several short mystery stories to discover their common features,organise and classify them.
• Students research and collect a selection of math, science, technology, history or geography facts that can be used as clues in a mystery story.
  
• Students follow the writing process from draft to web-published work to create a mystery story based on the problem and clue selected.
• Students respond to the published stories (on the web) by attempting to solve the problem.

Curricular Fit
(Further details in project STEPS)

Lifelong Learning

• Media Literacy

Cross Curricular Competencies

• To use ICT
• Choose another competency that will be your project focus.

Programs of study

• English Language Arts

Software and peripherals that could* be used

• Word Processor
• Email
• Inspiration or Kidspiration: visual organiser*
• Database*

* = Optional

Technical basics required to participate

• File and folder management: create a folder, name and save a file in a folder, open an existing file.
• E-mail: send and receive messages. Use your E-mail address book.
• Browse on the Web.

Time Line

The project "technical offer of service"
Teachers will learn to:

• Transfer text from a word processor to the a Web Form.
• To use email
• Use a database to consign information about books read. (Optional)
• To use a visual organiser in different phases of story planning (Optional)

The project "pedagogical offer of services"

• Model of a project-based approach
• Contextualizing of Curriculum links and evaluation in the project steps.
• Resources for teaching the Mystery genre.