1. Lost Colony Detectives
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Copyright Notice By
Shenise Clyburn

2. The Story of the “Lost Colony Detectives”
A group of detectives decide to travel back in time to solve the mystery of the Lost Colony. The first detective back to the present with a suspect, a motive, and the crime will win one million dollars. They will have solved a mystery that has puzzled historians for years. Will you crack the case?
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3. Game Preparation Print out 9 of each color clue card
Print out Motive, Suspect and Crime Cards
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4. Game Directions Return
To win the game you have to make it back to the present day with 9 clue cards, your suspect, motive, and crime to solve the mystery of the Lost colony.
2-4 players
To begin…
You cannot launch your time machine until you roll a 3 on the die for the three attempts to make Roanoke a colony. After you make it to 16th century America, you roll the die to determine how many spaces to move ahead. If you land on a question space answer the question. If you answer correctly you keep a clue card. If not, it’s the next players turn. After you gather three clue cards you choose a color coded crime card. After the next three clue cards you choose a motive card that is the same color. To win you must determine a suspect using the motive and crime cards as well as using the questions you just answered. Once you land on the Gather Your Evidence space, if you don’t have your 9 clue cards and the crime cards you will use your remaining turns on that space until there is a winner or until you gather the materials. To make it off the colony you must roll a 3 to move to the Time Travel Arrival Center. Are you ready to solve this mystery?
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5. Detective Notebook
The first English Colony of Roanoke was founded in 1585, by Sir Walter Raleigh who received permission from the Queen of England to make a colony in America.
The Colony ran out of food and Sir Richard Grenville, who had transported the colonists to Virginia, returned to Britain for supplies. Sadly Greenville took a long time to return to the colony. When another sailor named Sir Francis Drake went to Roanoke he picked up the men but left 15 of the sailors who came with him on the island. No one ever saw the men again.
Two years later, England sent over men, women, and children to make Roanoke a colony. Three years after that, they disappeared along with their homes and supplies. The only clue left was the word “Croatan” carved on a tree. English and Spanish sailors, as well as many historians today have searched for answers to this mystery. Now it is your turn!
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6. Questions
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7. Copyright Copyright 2007 Shenise Clyburn
Permission to copy this game at no cost is granted to all teachers and students of non-profit schools.
Permission is also granted to all teachers and students of non-profit schools to make revisions to this game for their own purposes, on the condition that this copyright page and the credits page remain part of the game. Teachers and students who adapt the game should add their names and affiliations to the credits page without deleting any names already there.
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8. Sir Walter Raleigh went to Roanoke Island to…
Find gold
Form a colony
Find the end of the world

9. Roanoke was…
In the mountains
On the coast
In the valley

10. Settlers treated the Indians…
Like friends
Like enemies
Both at some point in time

11. Sir Richard Greenville went to get…
Supplies
Weapons
The Queen

12. When Sir Francis Drake picked up hungry colonists, he left behind…
15 men
100 men
3 men

13. The weather on Roanoke was…
Hot
Stormy
Calm

14. John White is…
A sailor
A prince
A governor

15. Before they brought women and children, men came to Roanoke…
2 times
8 times
5 times

16. How many children came to Roanoke?6 9 3

17. Where was the third group of colonists supposed to settle?
Roanoke
Chesapeake Bay
Jamestown

18. When John White’s men launched an attack on the Indians
Their friends, the Croatoans
Their enemies, the Powhatans
An unknown tribe

19. Who was the first child born on Roanoke Island?
John White’s granddaughter
Elizabeth Dare
Both a and b

20. Why did the Croatoans stop giving the colonists food?
The colonists attacked them by accident
They didn’t have enough for them
They forgot to give them food.

21. Why didn’t John White come back right away?
He didn’t feel like it
The war between the Spanish and the French slowed him down
He was scared

22. What was the only thing John White found when he returned?
A little house
His granddaughter
A tree with a word carved into the trunk

23. What was carved on the tree?
Elizabeth and Johnny
Croatoan
Tommy was here

24. Correct!!!!
Get a clue card. If this is your third clue card get a crime, motive, or suspect card.

25. Sorry next players turn.
Incorrect
Sorry next players turn.

26. Educational Objectives
Competency Goal 3
3.03 Examine the Lost Colony and explain its importance in the settlement of North Carolina.
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27. Game board

28. Clue Card

29. Clue Card

30. Clue Card

31. Clue Card

32. Suspect
Powhatan

33. Suspect
Croatoan Indians

34. Suspect
Friendly Croatoans

35. Suspect
Settlers

36. Created their own tribe
Crime
Created their own tribe

37. Invited settlers to live with them
Crime
Invited settlers to live with them

38. Crime
Made them Slaves

39. Crime
Massacre

40. Motive
Anger and Betrayal

41. Motive
Sympathy

42. Motive
Revenge

43. Motive
To Protect Village