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Kids Chapter Outline
Get a Clue @ Your Library
Chapter 1: Planning
Chapter 2: Promotion
Chapter 3: Detect It! Super Summer Sleuthing
Ideas suggested:
- Mysterious Disguises
- Make a Detective Kit
- Fingerprinting
- How to Write a Mystery
- Famous Sleuths: Sherlock Holmes, etc.
- Literary Sleuths
- Fingerprinting/ GEMS program/ Ed Emberley's thumbprints
- Missing people
- FBI program
- Crime Scene Evidence: police evidence technician or forensic specialist
- Girl Sleuths
- Animal Sleuths
- Preschool ideas: Treasure Hunt, Scent Detective, What Is It Box, What's Wrong with This Picture
Chapter 4 Solve It! Puzzles, Codes and Ciphers
Ideas suggested:
- Secret Codes: Braille, UPC Product Codes, Morse, Pig Latin, American Sign Language, semaphore, rebuses, secret languages such as hash house or diner slang, backwards writing, numbers = letters, code words, block ciphers
- Scavenger hunts
- Invisible Ink
- Hidden Pictures
- Mazes: Giant Maze with stacks or maze using blue painter's masking tape/ Corn mazes
- 20Q game
- Make-Your-Own Ending
- Crossword puzzles
- Mystery Meal
- Unfolding Mysteries. Paper folding stories such as Nancy Schimmel's The Rainhat. Or, origami
- Preschool: Guessing Games, riddles, rebuses, Anno's Peekaboo, Mouse Views, Preschool puzzle exchange, peekaboo, hiding places, Have them guess what kind of person or job goes with what kind of hat. Martin's Hats, Caps for Sale, Which Hat Is That?
Chapter 5 Dig It Up! Mysteries from the Past
Ideas suggested:
- Egyptology: mummies, pyramids, sphinx
- Lost Civilizations: Mayan, Etruscans, Vikings, etc.
- Mysterious places: Stonehenge Stonehenge, Bermuda Triangle, Crop circles
- Be an Archeologist/Fossils/ dinosaurs
- History mysteries (American Girl history mysteries, historical mysteries)
- Preschool ideas: Pourquoi stories: how giraffe got long neck, etc., digging up dinosaurs
Chapter 6: Discover it! Science Mysteries
Ideas suggested:
- Rocks that Float
- Name That Leaf or Flower
- Everyday mysteries: why does a camel have a hump?
- Mysteries in the Sky
- Optical Illusions
- Preschool ideas: Mystery Seeds or mystery garden. At beginning of summer plant mystery seeds and figure out what they are as they grow.
- Color Mysteries, Mysterious Frogs/Origami, Discovering Shapes: Tana Hoban, Who am I: Name that sound, e.g. buzzing for bee.
Chapter 7: Explain It! Real life mysteries.
Ideas suggested by CSLP Committee:
- It's a Mystery potpourri
- Where in the world is...? (Geo mysteries, discovering places in your community, state, etc.)
- Find Me! GPS/ Geo-Caching/ Letter Boxing
- How Things Work
- Art Detective
- Math Mysteries
- UFO's, Bermuda Triangle, Bigfoot
- Computer Capers
- Preschool: be an art detective, easy math mysteries, Who am I? Guessing Games
California Summer Reading Program
The California Summer Reading Program is a project of the California Library Association supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) is the sponsoring organization for the 2007 Summer Library Program. Artwork is for use by CSLP members only. Copyright 2006-2007 by Highsmith Inc. All rights reserved. No images may be reproduced without written permission.