Students use grade-appropriate scientific principles, data analysis, and logic to solve a series of three mysteries: The Case of the Cryptic Note, The Case of the Missing Letter, and the Case of the Leftover Trash. Complete with teaching notes, materials list (everyday things you have stashed in a cabinet), editable student handouts, and extension ideas to connect reading, research, and writing. Great fun for the end of a long week, the end of a fabulous school year, or during the week of dreade