CSI: Can You Solve these Historical Murder Mysteries? Series VI

Hello fellow educators! This presentation is for those World History teachers who need content and investigative lessons on unsolved mysteries in Early Modern History. It conforms to new state standards across the country. It contains several slides featuring recommended warm ups, brief lecture notes, and inquiry-based historical mysteries for students to choose, research and attempt to solve using the best evidence and new technologies available in the fields of history and archaeology. Examples include: Who or what killed members of the Medici family? Did mercury poisoning kill Tycho Brahe? Was President Zachary Taylor murdered or is there another cause? Acting as CSI Forensic Anthropologists, students practice valuable skills such as research, citation, hypothesis building and thesis development via the process of design thinking in a cooperative learning atmosphere. Please modify the lesson as needed for your needs and contact me with any questions. This lesson has been class tested and approved by students. Thank you! Owen Cegielski, M.A. History and 20-Year Veteran Teacher, currently pursuing Doctorate in Education at CU Denver