You check behind the doors. You switch on the lights. Whether your tastes tend to Agatha Christie, Alfred Hitchcock, John Grisham, or mysteries from the Bible, the anticipation and tension bring images and imagination to life. Real-life stories, notably autobiographies provoke the conscious and subconscious, today, according to booksellers, more than in the last forty years. Think of the questions from the discrepant event you present to your students, as the questions that emerge from your favorite novel or movie.
Fireballs fly around the classroom and quicken the inquiry lesson pulse.
Answers to questions spur on the elimination of the mystery, the discrepancy. After confronting several discrepant event puzzles, the inquiry proceeds through various phases when your students ask information-gathering questions. Your students eventually reach a probable solution, thereby unveiling the mystery. Invite students to create their own discrepant event inquiries for a game. Teachers find that when their students read the t-shirt transfer instructions and transfer the instructions to a real project the students wear when they're finished, it extends understanding, comprehension, and, often, analysis skills.