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Scholastic

Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries: The Big Top Carnival Caper

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Help the Math Maven figure out how much money it will cost to give a balloon to every tenth person riding the Ferris wheel. Includes a PDF.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries: The Cuckoo Caper

For Students 3rd - 8th
The famous Clockenheimer Cuckoo is missing from Clockenheimer Clocks on Main Street! Help Math Maven get it back by solving a math riddle.
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Other

Cmc: Mysteries of Egypt: Tutankhamun

For Students 3rd - 8th
Site provides extensive information about King Tut, the boy king. Content includes a focus on King Tut's life and times, the cause of his death, his funeral, his tomb, his treasure, and the Mummy's Curse. Numerous photographs and a...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries: The Secret of E. Quation the Great

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Want to figure out a magician's secret for a cool balancing trick? Use your algebra knowledge to discover how this magic trick was done.
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University of California

University of California at Berkeley: Understanding Science: Mystery Boxes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An interesting lesson where students collaborate to create a visual image of what the inside of a sealed box looks like. The box has a marble or other type of sphere inside it, as well as partitions and/or ramps. Students come to...
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eBook
Curated OER

National Park Service: Fort Raleigh: The Roanoke Voyages: A Mystery Story for Young People

For Students 4th - 8th
The history of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island is told in story form. It tells of the conflict between England and Spain to establish a foothold in the New World, the voyages arranged by Sir Walter Raleigh, the establishment of a...
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Article
Children's Museum

Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Golden Cube Geo Mysteries

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how to test a material by using the five main properties of minerals to identify it at this interactive site.
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Website
Other

Mystery Net Kids Mysteries: Mysteries by Kids Winners

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
This site offers links to the winning stories from MysteryNet's mini-mystery writing contest for kids. They provide good reading practice and/or models for story writing activities.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Scholastic.com offers information on how to use the Math Maven's Mysteries to enhance problem-solving skills, partly through class discussion. For the actual mysteries, click on Math Maven Home.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: List of Mystery Books for Kids

For Students 3rd - 8th
A list of mystery books for kids middle school and elementary aged reading levels on this website.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: Mystery Operations

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This interactive activity allows you to change an equation's numbers in an attempt to figure out what operations are being used to control the answers.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: The Mystery of Is It Mine or Ours?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will learn that people respond predictably to positive incentives (rewards) and negative incentives (penalties). They will identify incentives in their daily lives at home and school. Students will discuss which incentives have...
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Scholastic

Scholastic History Mystery: States and Territories: Indian Territory

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students try to guess the mystery subject Carlotta Facts, the History Mystery Museum's professor, is studying. They read the clues, do some online and offline research, and then attempt to identify the game's mystery subject, the Indian...
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Scholastic

Scholastic History Mystery: Transportation 2: The Subway

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students try to guess the mystery subject Carlotta Facts, the History Mystery Museum's professor, is studying. They read the clues, do some online and offline research, and then attempt to identify the game's mystery item, the Subway.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Mystery Powder Investigation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During this lesson plan, young scholars will work individually to identify a mystery powder. Students will have the opportunity to test known powders with different substances and record observations. Young scholars will develop a plan...
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Article
University of Washington

Neuroscience for Kids: Discovering the Sweet Mysteries of Chocolate

For Students 3rd - 8th
Read about the history of chocolate and why we crave it.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Mysteries of the Universe

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Consider the issues surrounding the world of space exploration including the new fields of archaeoastronomy and astrobiology. Investigate zero gravity, the Big Bang theory, life in space and how sound travels in a vacuum.
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Lesson Plan
National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Nagt: Density Mystery Canisters

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students experiment with items that sink or float, and learn that water's density is equal to one, and objects/solutions with a density greater than one will sink, and those with a density less than one will float.
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Handout
NASA

Nasa: Space Place: A Solar Mystery

For Students 3rd - 7th
Students learn about the sun's atmosphere and corona and how the magnetic forces affect them.
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Activity
The History Cat

The History Cat: Roanoke: The Mystery of the Lost Colony [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 8th
Read about the lost colony of Roanoke, examine the evidence, and devise theories as to what may have happened to the colonists in 1590.
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Other

Eric Wilson

For Students 2nd - 8th
Information about Canadian novelist Eric Wilson and his fiction are included along with the first chapter from each of his mystery novels.
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National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Yellow Jackie: Outbreak

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Interactive mystery about a disease outbreak. Students investigate an outbreak of a disease on board a ship by interviewing people, consulting medical reference, and observer other clues to determining what disease is causing the outbreak.
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Curated OER

Mystery Writing With Joan Lowery Nixon

For Students 3rd - 8th
Have you ever wanted to know how to write a mystery novel? Use this site to learn more about how a professional author goes about writing mysteries.
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Website
Library of Congress

Loc: Everyday Mysteries: What Is Gps?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Where are you and where are you going? Visit this site and learn the discovery and purpose of GPS, Global Position Systems.

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