Description
This scavenger hunt activity combines the skill of using the focus, directrix, and vertex with the equation of a parabola with a mystery. Students will use the clues they gather from correctly solving inequalities to solve the mystery!
This item is customizable using Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can customize:
- The title of your mystery — If you don’t want to use the game model where the students investigate a murder, you can now change the setting to be anything you would like! Ideas that other teachers have used include a burglary, a case of mixed-up identity, what the teacher did last weekend… whatever you can imagine!
- The suspects, the weapons and the locations! Students enjoy seeing their teachers, administrators, rival schools, and local and national sports heroes included in their assignments.
Please note that the user is NOT able to edit the individual questions or answers.
This kit offers THREE ways to use this activity.
Use as a Scavenger Hunt: The download includes full-color cards as well as black and white cards for you to print and hang around your room for a class activity. As students solve the inequalities, they look around the room for their answer to see what clue they should eliminate.
Use as an Individual Activity: The download also includes a version which has all of the necessary clue information so students can complete this activity outside of the classroom.
Use as a Digital Activity: The download includes a link to a drag-and-drop activity in Google Slides
In all versions, the activity contains 18 questions, and each answer is associated with either a suspect, a weapon, or a location. When a student gets the answer, that option is eliminated from the mystery. When they are finished, students will only have one suspect, one weapon and location left, and they will have solved the mystery!
LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses.
COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.
