Elementary School
Past Jan Stauber-Sherlock Holmes Literacy Grant Projects
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“Sherlock Holmes Forensic Camp” by Sarah Lawler
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Past Beacon Award Projects
Sherlock Holmes Detective Class by Peggy Perdue
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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.
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Thanks to the Jan Stauber grant from the Beacon Society, Robert Nunn was able to create a two-week unit that introduced his fifth graders to the stories of Sherlock Holmes. The unit includes his lesson plans, with objectives and pictures on pages 3-10 of the report. An assignment on identifying nouns is on page 11. Other resources used for this unit include information from Scholastic, the International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes, and ReadingAtoZ.com. The texts used for whole class instruction are Classic Starts: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and On The Case With Holmes and Watson: Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure at the Copper Beeches. The scripts for the Reader’s Theater plays were The Red-Headed League and Sherlock Holmes and the Blue Carbuncle.
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Sherlockian books for Younger Readers - Sally Sugarman sugarman@bennington.edu
Sherlockian and retired professor of Childhood Studies Sally Sugarman gave us a reading list of contemporary mysteries that focus on young sleuths who admire Sherlock Holmes' character and methods. One of these series is "The Boy Sherlock Holmes" by Shane Peacock. The first two books have been reviewed by Dr. Wayne Scott, a Sherlockian and retired professor of English and American Studies,in Columbia, SC. A contributor to the college textbook American Civilization and Culture. Our contributors are greatly interested in promoting reading among young people, particularly reading about Sherlock Holmes. 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. |
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You can get some friends together to perform your own version of a Sherlock Holmes-based play. Marino Alvarez has developed a wonderful adaptation of "The Red-Headed League", one of Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes short stories.
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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.
Jerry Riggs' contribution on Scouting and Sherlock Holmes came just in time for the Boy Scout Centennial. Sherlockian Jerry Riggs has been involved with Boy Scouts in the Chief Okemos Council in Michigan for nearly fifty years. He developed ways to instruct his Scouts in the time-honored “Sherlocking” that was first developed by Lord Baden-Powell for British army scouts and later used by him in the International Boy Scout movement.
Jerry Riggs' contribution on Scouting and Sherlock Holmes came just in time for the Boy Scout Centennial. Sherlockian Jerry Riggs has been involved with Boy Scouts in the Chief Okemos Council in Michigan for nearly fifty years. He developed ways to instruct his Scouts in the time-honored “Sherlocking” that was first developed by Lord Baden-Powell for British army scouts and later used by him in the International Boy Scout movement.
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The Yale-New Haven Teacher's Institute has developed a unit for grades 3-6 based on the principle that "detective fiction and the whole concept of solving mysteries can be a powerful tool in getting elementary students interested in reading."
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