Things You'll Need:
- Overhead machine
- Transparency
- Transparency markers
- Plain paper
- Pen or pencil
- Novel containing crime scene
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Step 1
Before introducing this activity to students, have a clear idea of what the crime scene might look like in your own head.
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Step 2
Sketch out a crude map of the location for your own reference. Include details that might be observable from above, as if from a helicopter hovering over the scene.
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Step 3
Instruct students to sketch their own map of the crime scene, according to the same guidelines. If possible, ask students to refer to the specific page in the novel that describes the crime scene.
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Step 4
Once the area has been planned out, ask students to draw stick figures with labels to represent characters from the novel that are present at the scene.
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Step 5
If a vehicle was used in the crime scene, ask that a car be included in the drawing and its route mapped out with a dotted line.
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Step 6
Students can present their ideas while you compile results onto one map on the transparency, presented with the overhead machine. Comments from each student can make the map rich with detail and invite some interesting arguments which will encourage students to back their ideas up with evidence.
