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Aim: This activity is to use logical reasoning to do some detective work..

Handout:

Method: Use the handout or develop it as an overhead.

Background knowledge: For the diagrams on worksheet...

"Moon Craters" Diagram A: The oldest craters are the ones underneath the others. B is older than the smaller C craters and A is older than all of them.

"Robbery" Diagram B: The glass in on the outside. The brick is on the inside. The suspicious character may have nothing to do with the crime. The watches are still there.

"Beach prints" Diagram C: The prints are in order from oldest to most recent: tyre tracks - bare foot prints - shoe prints - bird prints.

"Geology plates" Diagram D: The left hand section has shifted upwards compared to the right hand section of earth.