THE “SHERLOCK HOLMES STRATEGY”

INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITY - STEP 1

In this introductory activity you will experience what I call “the Sherlock Holmes strategy”, i.e. the ability to make inferences and deductions – using general “rules” to make sense of particular items of information.

Read this sentence carefully:

I want to buy some new brinches

What do you think brinches could be?

Copy the table below. Write your hypotheses or predictions in the column on the left; write the reasons for your hypotheses (i.e. the criteria that you are using) in the column on the right.