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| Detective Using knowledge to solve problems |
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 In this role you will use knowledge to solve particular problems. If explorers are great searchers - detectives are great re-searchers; they go over things carefully again and again to get the details exactly right. They are sceptical and test everything. It is the tiny detail that no one else has noticed that lets Sherlock Holmes solve the case! |
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What detectives need: Curiosity - about how to solve a problem Carefulness -attention to detail, searching for patterns and anomalies, filtering out irrelevant information Patience - to collect information and consider all the possibilities, re-testing theories against reality Scepticism - checking for themselves rather than taking other people's words as fact Contacts - gaining information from or trading information with a network of other people |
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Identifying
an insect, measuring how fast water evaporates from a puddle or piecing together
a broken pot - this is detective work. You will require different tools
depending on what sort of detective-work you are doing – a magnifying-glass, a
microscope, a telescope, a computer, a light-meter – all sorts of different
devices for measuring and examining things. You may need to search the library,
the internet or the sea-shore. You may need to perform experiments to test out
your ideas. Detectives make careful notes of what they find. |
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What kinds of
people are detectives? |
