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Description

Turn history into an evidence room with six age-appropriate investigations spanning the Lost Colony of Roanoke, the Antikythera mechanism, pirate empires, the Mona Lisa, the dancing plague and the Voynich manuscript. Each mystery combines narrative reading with vocabulary, comprehension, evidence analysis and critical-thinking tasks.

What's included

  • Six complete historical mystery investigations
  • Reading and vocabulary activities
  • Comprehension questions
  • Evidence-analysis prompts
  • Critical-thinking and discussion tasks
  • Printable PDF lesson

Learning objectives

  • Analyse historical evidence
  • Distinguish fact, theory and speculation
  • Support inferences with textual evidence
  • Build historical vocabulary

Category

History

Resource type

Unit Study

Pages

10 pages

File types

PDF

Topics

Historical mysteriesEvidenceCritical thinkingReading comprehension

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