Mystery Quest is an online history resource about Canadian
history “mysteries”. It is geared towards middle and high school ages (11-18).
The mysteries are separated into age categories for an age-appropriate
experience. Students or teachers click on their age group, then choose a
mystery to examine. They look at an introduction, then are given a task that
has to do with solving the mystery by going through different procedures.
Finally, they explore the evidence and draw a conclusion about the mystery. There
are documents provided that give evidence and documents used in the original
trial, or that provide clues to solving the mystery. There are also notes for
teachers so that they can use the mysteries in their teaching (learning about
the law, race relations, etc.).
This would be used when teaching law, history, etc. I would
consider using it for a middle or high school class and having my students
conduct a “trial” in class in order to grasp law and history at the same time. I
absolutely loved this free resource. It is pretty limited in what it covers,
but it was easy to use and had great notes for teachers to adapt it to a
classroom lesson. It was fascinating to me and seemed like a teacher could
really bring history and government lessons to life using these mysteries. I
would recommend it to teachers of older students.
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