The Brokenwood Mysteries, Season 4 DVD

Editorial Reviews“The bucolic town of Brokenwood is picturesque on the surface, but its idyllic fa?ade harbors simmering passions that often erupt into grisly crimes. A transplant from the big city, Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Shepherd (Neill Rea) employs unconventional methods to solve the small town¡¯s most gruesome murders with his partner, Detective Kristin Sims (Fern Sutherland), and eager young DC Sam Breen (Nic Sampson). In these four feature-length mysteries, Shepherd and his team contend with the death of a skydiver whose parachute was tampered with, the killing of the eccentric owner of a Victorian reenactment village, farmers feuding over the rights to honey bees, and a nursing home full of suspects with dementia. Set against the gorgeous backdrop of the New Zealand countryside,Objectives

Material

Basketball

Coat hanger

Tape

Two or three feet of string

Weight (lead sinker works well)

Pail

Thimble

Softball

Teacher Background Information

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Procedure

Before class period, place the basketball in the pail; bend the coat hanger and tape it to the ball so that it is in an upright position. Attach the string to the thimble and place it on top of the upright hanger. Attach the weight to the other end of the string.

Upright pail with a weight hanging off a string that is attached to a bent coat hanger

When the class arrives, get the softball and