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Elementary School

• Sherlock Holmes visits Bill Ford Child Development Center -- ages 5 to 9
• Regina Stinson and Roy Pilot, both Baker Street Irregulars, made an informal visit to a classroom. They showed a Daffy Duck movie and gave out Sherlock Holmes stickers and magnifying glasses.
• Sherlock Holmes' Detective Class at the Toronto Public Library — ages 7 to 12
• Peggy Perdue is curator of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection at the Toronto Reference Library and an active Sherlockian. She describes the detective theme of the 2009 Summer Reading Club program, designed for outreach to promote the Collection and introduce Holmes to elementary school readers.
• Sherlock Holmes Mysteries — 5th grade
• 2006 Beacon Award: Lynn Beaulieu and Kim Bartolo of the Fayetteville Manlius School System, NY had their advanced curriculum students read Sherlock Holmes and discussed deductive logic, forensic science, and the Victorian age. They were assisted by The Mycroft Holmes Society of Syracuse, who visited and provided research material.
• Sherlockian Book Reviews — 5th grade to high school
• Dr. Wayne Scott, a retired professor of English and American Studies, is a Sherlockian in Columbia SC. His book reviews are a regular feature on the website.
• Scouting and Sherlock Holmes — 6th grade to high school
• Colonel (later Lord Robert) Baden-Powell, the originator of the Boy Scouts in the UK, emphasized methods for training in observation and deduction. He called the latter of these skills "Sherlocking" or "Sherlock Holmesism." Baden-Powell's original army handbook became a craze-sensation among the British civilian population. Clubs of girls and boys sprung up all over Britain to play the games in the book and take the challenge to attain the same caliber of expertise as elite trained scouts.

Middle School

• English Literature and Sherlock Holmes— 7th grade
• 2007 Beacon Award: Peter Burkhart wrote a series of lesson plans and quizzes for his seventh graders, then put them on a website with background material on Holmes.
• Sherlock Holmes Essay Writing Contest — 7th grade
• 2008 Beacon Award: Watson’s Tin Box scion society has been sponsoring a writing contest on The Speckled Band since 2004.
• Keeping the Memory Green (Being Sherlock Holmes) — 7th & 8th grade
• 2004 Beacon Award: Jan Stauber spent over 10 years visiting classrooms in the guise of Sherlock Holmes, inspiring students and teachers to read about The Great Detective.
• Hound of the Baskervilles Reading Project — 8th grade
• 2005 Beacon Award: Myrtle T. Robinson and Dr Twyla Tuten with the Hansom Wheels of SC designed a reading program that excited and inspired middle school students.

High School

• British Literature [Hound of the Baskervilles] Honors Class — High School
• 2007 Beacon Award: Judith Howell started her students reading in the summertime and used The Hound to teach elements of literary analysis that carried through the rest of the year.

College

• Humanities 101: Sherlock Holmes and Victorian England — College History
• 2009 Beacon Award: Dr Tracy J. Revels has taught Victorian History for many years by using Sherlock Holmes to help her students become better writers and critical thinkers.
• Sherlock Holmes and John H. Watson: A Literary Tour of their Universe — College Literature
• Donald A. Petkus, Lecturer at Indiana University, developed his syllabus for college upperclassmen. His major focus is on the Canon with digressions into "The Game" of Sherlockian scholarship and scion societies.