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Whodunit<\/h1>

An educational game for tablets. Pupils in grades 5\u20139 write murder mysteries for their classmates to solve.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

iPad<\/b>Platform<\/span><\/div>
Grades 5\u20139<\/b>Age group<\/span><\/div>
English, Danish<\/b>Subjects<\/span><\/div>
S\u00f8nderbro Skole<\/b>Developed with<\/span><\/div><\/div>

What<\/h2>

Whodunit is used in English lessons and works across Danish and English. Pupils learn how a crime story is built \u2013 and use that knowledge to write a mystery of their own.<\/p>

A group of four or five pupils creates a murder mystery. Each pupil has their own character in the story \u2013 including the murderer. The group describes the suspects\u2019 personalities, motives and alibis and collects them in a case file, which another group then uses to solve the mystery.<\/p><\/div><\/section>

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The case file \u2013 on paper and on the iPad<\/p><\/div>

How<\/h2>

Whodunit guides the pupils safely through every step of the writing process, prompts them for backstories and makes sure that every suspect could have committed the murder. The group is handed a set of clues, which another group must then match to the individual suspects.<\/p>

Along the way the pupils train their spoken and written English \u2013 and are introduced to the narrative devices of the detective genre.<\/p><\/div><\/section>

Background<\/h2>

Developed together with teachers from S\u00f8nderbro Skole in Copenhagen, with support from the Danish Ministry of Education, and used as an extended teaching course at several schools.<\/p><\/div><\/section>

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In the press<\/h2>
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Amager Bladet, 22 September 2015: \u201cKrimispil sjovere end grammatik\u201d \u2013 pupils at S\u00f8nderbro Skole playing Whodunit.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/section>

Credits<\/h2>
Partner<\/dt>
S\u00f8nderbro Skole, Copenhagen<\/dd>
Funded by<\/dt>
Undervisningsministeriet<\/dd>
Design and development<\/dt>
LUCUS<\/dd><\/dl><\/section>

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Learning games LUCUS Whodunit An educational game for tablets. Pupils in grades 5\u20139 write murder mysteries for their classmates to solve. iPadPlatform Grades 5\u20139Age group English, DanishSubjects S\u00f8nderbro SkoleDeveloped with What Whodunit is used in English lessons and works across Danish and English. Pupils learn how a crime story is built \u2013 and use that … <\/p>\n

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