Police Story
11-12 years old
Interactive story
Officer Harper’s Big Day at Maplewood
Follow Officer Harper, an experienced policewoman, as she shares her exciting career with curious kids, teaches about law enforcement, and solves a fun community mystery together.
In this interactive story, it's you who chooses the next step at each stage: your decisions influence the course... and the end of the adventure!
The quiz: did you understand the story well?
- Adjusted
- Moved or made small changes to feel right or comfortable
- Crisp
- Clean, neat, and sharp in appearance
- Radio crackled
- A sound of many small pops from a radio or device
- Detective
- A person who looks for clues to solve a mystery or problem
- Community Safety Day
- A special event when people learn to keep the town safe
- Suspicious
- Making someone feel unsure or worried about what happened
- Witnesses
- People who saw or heard something and can tell about it
- Timeline
- A list or order of events showing when things happened
- Scuff marks
- Scratches or dirt left when something rubs a surface
- Smudge
- A soft mark made by rubbing something dirty or wet
- Confetti
- Small bits of colored paper used for celebration
- Streamers
- Long, thin strips of paper used to decorate
- Glitter
- Very small shiny bits that sparkle and stick to things
- Evidence
- Things or clues that help show what really happened
- Document
- To record or keep a clear record of something
- Footprints
- Marks left by feet on soft ground or mud
- Photograph
- To take a picture with a camera