Let’s Play Clue!Significance of Research and Evidence

Agenda/Business

1. Business items› Moving cars on the Road to

Success› Topics, thesis statements,

citations 2. Clue game 3. Continue to work on our

projects

Who has seen the movie CLUE?

Clue Objectives!

SWBAT detect bias reliability in sources SWBAT understand the significance of

gathering multiple sources in order to get the whole story

SWBAT record sources properly SWBAT identify the relevance (or lack

of )in a source SWBAT evaluate the significance of

evidence CLUE THE MOVIE!

Let our game begin!

Role assignments!› Review role

responsibilities We need six volunteers:

› Clue Searcher number 1› Clue Searcher number 2› Clue Searcher number 3› Scribe Team 1

(whiteboard and marker)› Scribe Team 2

(whiteboard and marker)

Clue Predictions Suspects:

› Ms. Davis› Ms. Lataille› Mr. Jones

Weapons:› Book› Spitball› Pencil

Locations: › Library› Cafeteria › Hallway

With your teams (each side of the room will be a team!) please make a prediction of who has committed this crime! Choose one suspect, one weapon, and one location! Have the scribe record this prediction on a sheet of paper and hold on to it until the end of the game to see if you were right!

Directions

As a class we are going to try to solve this Manchester mystery!

There are clues providing evidence from different sources around the room.

After we find each clue we will discuss the pros and cons of the evidence and sources it provides.› Clue searchers will retrieve the clues and read

them aloud to the class.› Scribes will record the sources and evidence

provided in each clue.

Clue Number 1

A rumor started by a student around Manchester High School this week is that Mr. Jones was seen suspiciously walking around the library last Wednesday with a pencil in his hand.

Discuss

Source Reliability Source biases

Helpful Hint

To hear more about this mystery look towards to North Pole!

Clue Number 2

According to half of the Social Studies teachers at Manchester High School Ms. Lataille has never seen the cafeteria.

Clue Searcher 1 please read aloud!

Discuss

Getting the whole story Significance of getting multiple sources

Helpful Hint

To hear more about this mystery what is opposite of black plus a rhyme with chord.

Clue Number 3

The English teachers at Manchester High School were working in the library last week doing a project on Shakespeare and there was a big problem with spitballs.

Clue searcher 2 please read this aloud!

Discuss

Sorting through and picking out irrelevant sources and information

Helpful Hint

To hear more about this mystery look to the teachers right, third row, second desk.

Clue Number 4

Mr. Jones was heard accusing both Ms. Lataille and Ms. Davis of sneaking around in the hallways with pencils and books.

Clue searcher 3 please read this aloud!

Discuss

Why are proper citations, evidence, and sources significant?

How can we apply evidence to our topic or research question?

Can you solve the Manchester Mystery?

To hear more about this mystery properly record each of the sources of these four clues in your teams and solve the mystery!

Use your scribes notes to review! Then as a team record you choices for

suspect, location, and weapon for this crime based on the evidence and sources! Let’s see which team will solve the mystery!

“I don’t know!”

If you wrote down “I don’t know”, for the first time, your are exactly right!

Why is this impossible?

Our evidence was not reliable, it was not thorough enough, it was not recorded properly, or it was irrelevant!

Discuss

What would we do now if we needed to solve this mystery?› What should you do with your project if

your sources are not giving you the answer to your question?

Why is evidence, sources, and citations important to your research?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43886f2c06I

Reflection

Please take a few minutes to fill out this worksheet about our Clue game!

Then we will discuss as a class.

History Day Projects Announcements

Review handouts and research guides Begins working on whatever you need

to be for your project!› Topics› Thesis statements› Research› Organization