About this resource
23 mystery-driven Science Unlocked lesson sets for middle school (grades 6-8), about 23 weeks of science instruction. Each set opens with a real, surprising phenomenon, builds the science one level at a time, and ends with students cracking the case in a claim-evidence-reasoning (CER) write-up.
Topics: chemical reactions, thermal energy, Newton's laws, kinetic and potential energy, waves, engineering design process, claim evidence reasoning (CER), science phenomenon, review games.
Bundle price: $46 for 23 sets ($2 a set). Bought one at a time, these sets cost $69.
Sets in this bundle
- Just Cold Enough (MS-ETS1-1, Engineering Design: Criteria & Constraints)
- The Scariest Plan Won (MS-ETS1-2, Evaluate Competing Design Solutions)
- Best of Each (MS-ETS1-3, Analyze Design Test Data)
- Five Layers of Cool (MS-ETS1-4, Iterative Testing & Modeling Design)
- Pencil or Diamond? (MS-PS1-1, Atoms, Molecules & Extended Structures)
- The Fatberg Files (MS-PS1-2, Chemical Reactions: Properties Before & After)
- The Nylon Rush (MS-PS1-3, Synthetic Materials & Natural Resources)
- The Vanishing Spoon (MS-PS1-4, States of Matter & Particle Motion)
- Not One Atom Lost (MS-PS1-5, Conservation of Mass in Chemical Reactions)
- Hot Meal, No Flame (MS-PS1-6, Exothermic & Endothermic Design)
- The Bouncing Lander (MS-PS2-1, Newton's Third Law Collisions Design)
- The Plane Pull (MS-PS2-2, Forces, Mass & Motion)
- The Magnet Express (MS-PS2-3, Electric & Magnetic Forces)
- The Ball-Pit Asteroid (MS-PS2-4, Gravity Depends on Mass)
- The Floating Frog (MS-PS2-5, Fields: Forces at a Distance)
- Speed Squared (MS-PS3-1, Kinetic Energy, Mass & Speed)
- The Water Battery (MS-PS3-2, Potential Energy)
- Cooking With Sunlight (MS-PS3-3, Thermal Energy Transfer Design)
- The Pizza Burn (MS-PS3-4, Thermal Energy, Mass & Specific Heat)
- Red-Hot Brakes (MS-PS3-5, Kinetic Energy & Energy Transfer)
- Out to Deep Water (MS-PS4-1, Wave Amplitude & Energy)
- Snow Day Silence (MS-PS4-2, Waves: Reflect, Absorb, Transmit)
- The Faraway Whisper (MS-PS4-3, Digital vs. Analog Signals)
Every set includes
- An editable Teacher Deck with answers highlighted and speaker notes (what to say, support and GT tips).
- An interactive Student Deck (PowerPoint + PDF) where students type, drag and rate their confidence.
- Google Slides versions of both decks, with make-a-copy links.
- A Teacher Guide with a run-of-show for every level, materials, misconceptions, answer keys and sources.
- A Student Printable in 12 pt type, plus a low-ink greyscale copy, for paper days and sub days.
- A self-grading digital activity: SCORM 2004, SCORM 1.2, a web package and a single HTML file.
- Two whole-class review games (Jeopardy-style and Trashketball), plus Kahoot! and Blooket import files with an answer key.
- Leveled lessons with "I can" targets, notes, practice, checkpoints, exit tickets, a Mini Quiz and a Stretch beyond grade level.
By the numbers
- 23 one-week units, each with 5-6 levels (about one 45-50 minute class per level).
- 23 of the 23 sets include a hands-on lab with a materials list and safety notes.
- 1144 Kahoot!/Blooket review questions across the bundle.
Try the digital activity first
- Not sure the self-grading activity will work in your LMS? Download the FREE HTML & SCORM Sample and test it with your students before you buy.
Save more
- Science Unlocked Mega Bundle (89 sets, $133.50)
More from Mystery Lab Learning
- See every Science Unlocked set, and follow to hear when new ones are added, at Mystery Lab Learning.
Good to know
- When a set in this bundle is updated, you get the update for free in My Purchases.
- The illustrations in these resources were created with AI image tools, and AI tools helped draft the lesson text. Every slide, answer key and lab step was then fact-checked against the sources listed in each Teacher Guide and proofread.
- Kahoot!, Blooket, Jeopardy!, Google Slides and PowerPoint are trademarks of their owners. These resources are not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
- License: one teacher, for use with their own students. Please buy an additional license for each colleague who uses it.
