About this resource
Every Science Unlocked lesson set in one bundle: 89 mystery-driven, one-week units covering every middle school NGSS performance expectation, plus grade 4, grade 5 and grades 3-5 engineering. 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.
Bundle price: $133.50 for 89 sets ($1.50 a set). Bought one at a time, these sets cost $267.
Sets in this bundle
- Lion Lights (3-5-ETS1-1, Define a Design Problem: Criteria & Constraints)
- The Fish Cannon (3-5-ETS1-2, Engineering Design: Generate & Compare Solutions)
- The Wobbly Bridge (3-5-ETS1-3, Engineering Fair Tests & Failure Points)
- The Desert Fish (4-ESS1-1, Rock Layers, Fossils & Changing Landscapes)
- The Lighthouse That Moved (4-ESS2-1, Weathering & Erosion)
- The Cornfield Volcano (4-ESS2-2, Earth's Features: Map Patterns)
- The Coal Museum’s Solar Roof (4-ESS3-1, Energy Resources & Environmental Effects)
- The Safe Roof (4-ESS3-2, Natural Hazards: Design Solutions)
- The Camel’s Hump (4-LS1-1, Plant & Animal Structures and Functions)
- The Star-Nosed Speed Eater (4-LS1-2, Animal Senses & the Brain)
- The Water Knife (4-PS3-1, Speed & Energy)
- The Rattling Window (4-PS3-2, Energy Transfer: Sound, Light, Heat & Electricity)
- The Super Bounce (4-PS3-3, Energy in Collisions)
- Light From a Bag of Rocks (4-PS3-4, Energy Conversion Design)
- The Concert Quake (4-PS4-1, Waves: Amplitude & Wavelength)
- The Vanishing Diamond (4-PS4-2, Light, Reflection & How We See)
- The Parachute Code (4-PS4-3, Patterns to Transfer Information)
- The Sun’s Look-Alike (5-ESS1-1, Brightness of the Sun & Stars)
- The Vanishing Shadow (5-ESS1-2, Shadows, Day & Night, and Star Patterns)
- The Rain Mountain (5-ESS2-1, Earth's Spheres Interact)
- The Thirsty City by the Sea (5-ESS2-2, Earth's Water: Salt vs. Fresh)
- The Cave That Stank (5-ESS3-1, Protecting Earth's Resources)
- The Willow in the Pot (5-LS1-1, Plants Get Matter From Air & Water)
- The Cow Pat Problem (5-LS2-1, Food Webs & Decomposers: Matter Cycles)
- The Sinking Balloon (5-PS1-1, Matter Is Made of Particles)
- The Maple Mystery (5-PS1-2, Conservation of Matter)
- The Sorting Machine (5-PS1-3, Properties of Materials)
- Lady Liberty Turns Green (5-PS1-4, Mixing Substances: Is It a New Substance?)
- The Tower Puzzle (5-PS2-1, Gravity Pulls Down)
- The Sun-Powered Sprint (5-PS3-1, Energy in Food Comes From the Sun)
- Dark at Noon (MS-ESS1-1, Moon Phases, Eclipses & Seasons)
- The Planet Found With Math (MS-ESS1-2, Gravity in the Solar System & Galaxies)
- The Seven-Planet Squeeze (MS-ESS1-3, Solar System Scale)
- The Missing Billion Years (MS-ESS1-4, Geologic Time Scale & Rock Strata)
- The Seafloor Summit (MS-ESS2-1, Rock Cycle: Earth's Materials & Energy)
- Slow, Then Sudden (MS-ESS2-2, Geoscience Processes Shape Earth's Surface)
- Fossils on the Ice (MS-ESS2-3, Plate Tectonics: Fossils & Continents)
- The Sea That Never Fills (MS-ESS2-4, The Water Cycle)
- The Blue Norther (MS-ESS2-5, Air Masses & Weather)
- Icebergs and Palm Trees (MS-ESS2-6, Ocean & Atmosphere Circulation, Climate)
- Earth’s Treasure Map (MS-ESS3-1, Earth's Natural Resources Distribution)
- Warning Signs (MS-ESS3-2, Natural Hazards & Forecasting)
- The Wrong-Way Turtles (MS-ESS3-3, Human Impact: Monitor & Minimize)
- Outweighed (MS-ESS3-4, Population, Consumption & Earth's Systems)
- Who Turned Up the Heat? (MS-ESS3-5, Rising Global Temperatures)
- 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)
- Built From Cells (MS-LS1-1, Cells: Living Things Are Made of Cells)
- Cell Parts at Work (MS-LS1-2, Cell Parts & Organelles Model)
- Systems in Space (MS-LS1-3, Body Systems & Subsystems)
- Raising the Odds (MS-LS1-4, Animal Behaviors & Plant Structures for Reproduction)
- Growing Giants (MS-LS1-5, Genetic & Environmental Factors in Growth)
- Garden in a Bottle (MS-LS1-6, Photosynthesis: Matter & Energy)
- The Atom Shuffle (MS-LS1-7, Cellular Respiration & Food Molecules)
- Message Received (MS-LS1-8, Senses, Nerves & the Brain)
- Boom and Bust (MS-LS2-1, Resource Availability & Populations)
- Open Wide (MS-LS2-2, Ecosystem Interactions)
- The Salmon Forest (MS-LS2-3, Ecosystems: Matter Cycles & Energy Flow)
- The Vanishing Kelp Forest (MS-LS2-4, Ecosystem Changes Affect Populations)
- A Bridge for the Wild (MS-LS2-5, Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services Design)
- The Bodybuilder Dog (MS-LS3-1, Mutations & Proteins)
- The Banana Clones (MS-LS3-2, Asexual vs. Sexual Reproduction)
- The Fossil Forecast (MS-LS4-1, Fossil Record Patterns)
- The Whale’s Hidden Hand (MS-LS4-2, Anatomical Similarities & Evolution)
- Hidden Family Ties (MS-LS4-3, Embryo Development Evidence)
- Hurricane Survivors (MS-LS4-4, Natural Selection & Variation)
- The Neon Fish (MS-LS4-5, Artificial Selection & Genetic Engineering)
- The Tuskless Mystery (MS-LS4-6, Natural Selection Math & Population Traits)
- 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
- 89 one-week units, each with 5-6 levels (about one 45-50 minute class per level).
- 89 of the 89 sets include a hands-on lab with a materials list and safety notes.
- 4371 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.
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.












