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Mystery Science

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Overview
Core/Supplemental Curriculum Elementary Science Grades K–5

Mystery Science is Discovery Education’s elementary science lesson program. It is intended primarily for elementary science learners, with elementary teachers, students, curriculum leaders, and families using it to support phenomena, inquiry, discussion, hands-on investigation, and science explanation.

Teachers use short videos, guiding questions, discussion, readings, and low-preparation hands-on activities organized into standards-connected units. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

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Features
Audience and instructional role
  • Grades / learners: elementary science learners
  • Primary users: elementary teachers, students, curriculum leaders, and families
  • Learning focus: phenomena, inquiry, discussion, hands-on investigation, and science explanation — Discovery Education’s elementary science lesson program
How it supports learning
  • Teachers use short videos, guiding questions, discussion, readings, and low-preparation hands-on activities organized into standards-connected units.
  • Teachers should connect use to explicit learning goals and inspect student work rather than rely on completion or engagement alone.
Implementation and instructional decisions
  • Confirm whether it serves core science or supplementation and ensure adequate instructional time, materials, writing, assessment, and local standards coverage.
  • Districts should confirm accessibility, language support, student-data practices, assignment workflow, reporting, and the continuing role of teacher judgment.
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Standards-aligned curriculum that inspires kids to love science!
Mystery Science is an innovative, standards-aligned, hands-on curriculum that teaches children how to think like scientists.  Our phenomena-driven instruction helps kids to better understand and communicate about the world around them through writing, discussion, and exploration.

Standards-aligned curriculum that inspires kids to love science!
Mystery Science is an innovative, standards-aligned, hands-on curriculum that teaches children how to think like scientists.  Our phenomena-driven instruction helps kids to better understand and communicate about the world around them through writing, discussion, and exploration.

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School Districts that use this:

9 California school districts are currently associated with this product in the SDLA database.

Data comes from SDLA district surveys, public records, vendor information, and ongoing review.