Mystery Science Resources for Home

Message from Mystery Science:

We've gone through all of our K-5 science lessons, collected the easiest ones to do from home, and put them on a single page to make things easier.

Share this page with any teachers who may be planning for school closures. This page and all the lessons are public and free. No signup or student login is needed—we just want to help.

Free school closure lessons

Or share this link:

mysteryscience.com/school-closure-planning

Remember, since you have an account, you can share any of our lessons with your students by generating a student link. These links do not require students to create an account and they’ll remain active for many months. Here is how:

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Using Mystery Science at home

• Can parents do hands-on activities at home? We designed our lessons to rely on simple supplies. Parents might have many of the materials at home or can readily find them at local stores or on Amazon. If you’re planning to have parents do activities at home, you may want to send students home with the needed printouts. To make printing easier for multiple lessons at a time, we’ve created grade-level PDFs with all printouts: www.mysteryscience.com/printouts
• I’m in a free trial/my membership has expired. Can I still use the student links? Yes! During this time, teachers in expired trials can share student links. We want to do all we can to support you, your students, and their families, to make learning science at home as easy as possible.
• Don’t student links expire in 10 days? Normally, student links do expire in 10 days — but we’ve extended them through June to make it easier to support students during school closures.
• No internet at home? Download the student mode lessons for offline viewing at home. Open the student link for any full lesson and click on the “Download Mystery" button. Downloading works best using the Google Chrome browser and may take 5+ minutes depending on the internet speed. Make sure you keep the browser window open and don’t turn off the computer. The lesson will play from the browser even when offline.

Anything else we can do to help? Please let us know!