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CK-12 Foundation

Monomial Factors of Polynomials: Mystery Boxes

For Students 8th - 10th Standards
Shortcut the work in finding total volumes. Pupils determine a polynomial expression that would represent the combined volume of three boxes. Each box has the same height, and the scholars rewrite the expression by factoring out the...
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Perkins School for the Blind

The Mystery Box - Making Observations and Collecting Data

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Making observations and collecting qualitative and quantitative data is a vital skill all scientists need to practice. Help your scientists with partial and no sight learn how to use their other senses to make observations for...
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Curated OER

The Mystery Box

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students design a mystery box to hold an object related to the timeline of life studies. In this timeline of life lesson, student play a game with fossils and other remnants of past times and guess the era it comes from.
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Curated OER

Mystery Boxes: Uncertainty and Collaboration

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students manipulate boxes with unknown internal structure and contents to become familiar with the concept of uncertainty in science.
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Towson University

Mystery Tubes

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
How do scientists know they're right? Truth be told, they don't always know. Explore the scientific process using mystery tubes in an insightful activity. Young scientists discover how to approach and solve problems in science, how ideas...
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Curated OER

The Mystery of the Shoe Box

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders do the work of historians. In this world history lesson, 6th graders examine the artifacts and handouts in mystery boxes that their teachers prepare. Students collaborate to solve the mystery of their assigned boxes as they...
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Curated OER

Mystery Box

For Teachers K
Students predict what mystery objects are based on how they feel. In this sense of touch lesson, students reach inside a box and make a guess about the object inside. Once students record their predictions, the objects are revealed....
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Curated OER

Mystery Numbers

For Students 3rd
In this mystery numbers activity, 3rd graders study, analyze and follow the directions in four boxes to find the mystery number in each box.
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Curated OER

Mystery Boxes

For Students 7th - 10th
In this observations worksheet, students are given a box with unknown items inside. They are to experiment with the box and determine what is inside by shaking, rattling and rolling the box. They write down an educated guess for six items.
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Curated OER

QuickPlan: Mystery Boxes

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Primaries explore the concepts of observation and inference. Given a set of six sealed boxes, children lift, tip, or gently shake in order to make observations about what is inside. The lesson plan gives preparation instructions in...
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Curated OER

Mystery Box

For Teachers K
Students use their sense of touch to describe an object in the mystery box. In this mystery box instructional activity, students use linguistic abilities to describe the object. Students give as much detail as they can as to what they...
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National Wildlife Federation

Bison Mystery Box

For Teachers K - 8th
Natural design is amazing. Young scientists connect the features of a bison to an assortment of everyday items. A bison's tail is an ideal flyswatter, and a pot stores water just like a bison's stomach. The lesson plan connects the...
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Curated OER

The Scientific Method Using Mystery Powders

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students use the scientific method to determine physical and chemical properties of unknown substances. In this scientific method lesson plan, students discuss chemical and physical properties of substances as a class after a...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

"The Pine Park Mystery" Vocabulary

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this vocabulary from The Pine Park Mystery activity, students use the words in the word box to fill in the blanks and complete the sentences. Students fill in seven blanks.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

"The Box"

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this story completion worksheet, students read the beginning of a story about a mystery box and then finish the story on the lines provided.
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Curated OER

The Mystery Box

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners work in groups with a wooden box that is sealed shut. They make predictions about what is inside the box. Before being allowed to open the box, the groups make hypotheses, conduct experiements, record results, draw conclusions,...
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Rainforest Alliance

Get in Touch with Nature

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Take a trip to the Colombian rainforest through the sense of touch. Here, class members discover what's inside a mystery box: wood, cinnamon, Brazil nuts, a banana, and orange. Then, the class takes a trip outside for a tree rubbing...
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Under the Dome

Triangle Mystery ...

For Students 6th Standards
Build a pyramid based on sums. Individuals watch a video of a computer program that creates a pyramid of numbers based upon a starting number. The scholars develop a hypothesis on how the number trick works and share their thoughts on...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Math Maven's Mysteries

For Students 5th - 7th
In these math word problem worksheets, students help solve the mystery about 'The Case of the Shifting Shapes.' Students solve the problem by completing a rectangle area problem and also determine where Rex Tangle will appear next.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Isolating, See It-Sound It

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Working pairs, early readers put their hands into a mystery box, pull out an item, then name and identify its initial phoneme. 
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Curated OER

It's a Mystery to Me

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders produce a mystery story based on a mystery box created by a classmate. They develop the story using appropriate voice and containing a clear beginning,middle and end. They participate in peer editing.
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Curated OER

Mystery Boxes

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students make observations about Mystery Boxes that their teacher has made up and describes the motion of the object inside the box and hypothesizes it's shape based on their observations.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Mystery Powder Lab

For Students 6th - 8th
In this mystery powder learning exercise, students determine the identify of 6 unknown samples by testing them with cabbage juice for pH, vinegar, iodine for starch and heat. Students determine the identity of the mystery powders using...
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Curated OER

Get In Touch With Trees

For Teachers K - 1st
Students feel tree parts inside of 3 mystery boxes. Then they go outside and find the 3 trees the parts came from. They draw their favorite tree including details of the part they felt.

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