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Deadly Picnic

Deadly Picnic. A lesson on deductive reasoning.

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Deadly Picnic

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  1. Deadly Picnic A lesson on deductive reasoning.

  2. Have you ever played the board game CLUE? In this game, players gather information in order to determine the murderer, murder weapon and crime scene. Actually, participants are not “guessing” when they play this game; they are using deductive reasoning. As players gather more information, the begin to put the pieces of the mystery together.

  3. Police investigators follow a process similar to the used in CLUE. The investigators collect and evaluate evidence from a crime science. All of the information they gather is compile and placed in the criminal case file. As new evidence becomes available, it is added to the file.

  4. Police investigators rarely learn about events in the same sequence in which they took place during the crime. Usually the leads are acquired in random order. Once a large portion of information is known, the police experts must sit down and put the pieces together, like you would assemble a jigsaw puzzle.

  5. Deductive reasoning is the thought process that police investigators use to assemble the pieces of the criminal puzzle and reach a logical conclusion. In deductive reasoning, investigators utilize logical and critical-thinking skills to reach a conclusion.

  6. DIRECTIONS: • Read background information AND procedure. • Fill in data tables 1 AND 2 ON YOUR OWN (you may write on the paper). • When instructed, compare your data tables with your neighbor. • Copy the Post Lab Questions on the next slide onto your own notebook paper. • Answer the post lab questions (if time runs out, the post lab questions will need to be completed for homework).

  7. POST LAB QUESTIONS • 1. Who do you believe killed Mr. Brooks? • 2. Cite the key pieces of information that caused you to believe the other five women were innocent (write each of their names and the key piece of information). • 3. What information helped you identify the murderer? • 4. Write a 2-paragraph story that describes what you believe happened on the night of the murder. Include the following: how the couple got to the site, why they went there, what happened while there were there, and how the murderer escaped. What do you believe was her motive?

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