Mystery Activities and a Freebie

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Do you love a good mystery? Kids love to be detectives and solve a good puzzle too. Mystery Name is a great way for students to get to know their classmates and generate new words in their name. The student who is chosen to be the “Mystery Name” gets some recognition too! Create a Mystery Name for each student in your classroom.

Use Mystery Name for: a warm-up activity, or morning work.

Scramble each student's name on the recording sheet below and make a copy for all the students. Students use the letters in the name to unscramble to find the mystery name and to create new words. Click on the picture to download it for FREE and to start using it today.

FREE Mystery Name for a getting to know you activity

Here are some more Mystery Activities to use in the classroom during math time:

Missing Numbers with some challenging equations

Another fun mystery activity is Making Inferences. This pack includes 20 task cards that display a small paragraph. Students need to figure out what's happening in each card. These are perfect for 2nd graders or your ESL learners! These task cards will help students use their skill of trying to infer what is happening on each task card. Students need to be careful readers and have some background knowledge to infer each passage. You can use these task cards with the gameboard for 2-players or with the recording sheets.
These task cards are also uploaded into Google Forms creating 5 Self grading quizzes. These quizzes can be copied into your Google Classroom to assign to students. Click the picture below to read more about these task cards.