MysteryScience.com
Teach in grades K-5? Need or want an excellent resource to help you along with the Next Generation Science Standards? Use mysteryscience.com (Reserve a free-trial membership now!) Or if your school currently has a subscription don’t forget to use it! You are sitting on a gem. For many of us, our old curriculum isn’t aligned or rigorous enough, so we need resources and ideas to help us along.
Whether you have or have not been formally trained in NGSS within our district, Mystery Science is a good tool to use along the way.
For those of you who have been trained, the lessons follow the same pattern as the ones that were shown- starting with a phenomena to framing the lesson to completing an investigation! Mystery science is a subscription service for full access, or free with limited access if you sign up and reserve a spot. Though limited, if you do the free version, what is available to you is still great content that could and should be used if it relates to one of your standards. The lessons provide hands-on investigations that are engaging, easy prep, and aligned to NGSS and Common Core. Click on their homepage (mysteryscience.com), scroll down a bit, and watch their informative one minute video.
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Mystery Science: Lessons for elementary teachers
How can you use this in the classroom?
I always begin science with one of Mystery Science’s opening questions that go with the lesson. My class completes an interactive notebook along the way. Adding “Input/Output” content that relates to the content. We spend our science block answering questions, discussing ideas, learning key vocabulary words, writing, and completing hands-on experiments or activities. Since I started using this website, my students participate, get involved, and share what they learn in science with others. Students get excited and are intensely engaged in what the lessons have to offer. Each lesson provides a question that needs to be answered, “activity supplies” that we the teacher need to print/prep or gather in order to complete the investigation. They even offer assessments at the end of each unit. If this resource is available to you or is something you are interested in, use it while you can, I guarantee your kids will enjoy it!
Tech-ing with a purpose,
Tiffani Bossieux
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