Conic Sections Mystery Activity Customizable Scavenger Hunt + DIGITAL

Make solving conic sections more fun with this engaging activity! In this activity students solve conic sections to solve a mystery. You'll love the quick and easy set-up; your students will love solving the case.

Your students will analyze a parabola, hyperbola, ellipse, and circle as they complete this engaging activity. Students will love solving the mystery and won’t even realize how much they are learning!

Choose how you would like to use these activities in your class: 

• As a Scavenger Hunt
• As a Digital Activity - ready for distance learning

In both versions, you are able to customize the TITLE, the SUSPECTS, the WEAPONS, and the LOCATIONS to create a unique mystery activity that is perfectly suited to your students!

This item is customizable using Adobe Acrobat Reader! Using Adobe Acrobat, you can customize:

1. The title of your mystery -- If you don't want to use the game model where the students investigate a murder, you can now change the setting to be anything you would like! Ideas that other teachers have used include a robbery, a case of mixed-up identity, what the teacher did last weekend... whatever you can imagine!
2. The suspects, the valuable items and the locations! Students enjoy seeing their teachers, administrators, rival schools, and local and national sports heroes included in their assignments.

Please note that the user is NOT able to edit the individual questions.

Here’s what you’ll get:

• An activity with 4 challenging conic sections and 17 questions as a Scavenger Hunt and a Digital Activity
• 23 Clue cards in both color and black-and-white
• A link to the digital activity in Google Slides that is easy to assign and easy to grade!
• Answer key

This activity is perfect to use…

• As a review before the unit assessment
• As part of Math Workshop
• In small group tutoring
• As an extra-credit opportunity
• Great to leave for a sub!

So easy to use… You’ll be ready for an engaging and fun class in no time! 

You will love hearing your students engaged, working together, helping each other as they work through the expressions in this mystery.

HERE’S WHAT TEACHERS LIKE YOU ARE SAYING…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Deana H. says, “I use this resource every year as a review. My Precalculus students really enjoy it. They are always so engaged in solving the puzzle, that they don't even realize how much Math they are doing in the meantime.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Kaitlin H. says, “My students loved using this resource to review Conic Sections! It was a great "change-up" and super easy to prep for! I loved how easy it was to change the names, places, objects! Thanks!!!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Martha G. says, “My students are always engaged when it comes to doing a Scavenger type activity. The like to work together and move around the room. It is excellent for reviewing conic sections.” 

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