Story Background
Police have discovered a body in Hartingfield Park.
Pupils are in role as police officers in an incident room trying to solve the murder. Using the Internet, the incident room receives various piece of information. There are many clues, many deductions to be made.
Following a detailed investigation, by a process of elimination and intelligent guess-work, the 'police officers' make a speculation to their chief as to a solution and attempt to reconstruct the last few hours of the victim's life.
Pre-activity checklist
In preparation for the activity Actis suggest the following steps:
- Visit Organising Murder and review the whole of the Murder website.
(The teacher username and password will allow entry to the passworded areas.)
- Print off the teacher guidance material and child worksheets
- Run through the scenario.
- Use the teacher username and password to log on to the Projects admin area
- Place the message stream activity into the 'Waiting' position.
- Go to the Murder briefing page, click the log on button and enter the child username and password.
- Plan how to run the scenario and select follow-up activities.
- Place the scenario back into the 'Waiting' position at Projects admin area ready for use on the day.
Note: The message stream continues even if the Internet connection is lost temporarily. Simply log back on again to continue.In addition, it is possible to pause and resume the message stream in the event of an emergency. Log on to the Projects admin area with the teacher password and click the pause button. To resume, log on again and click on the resume icon.
