This year I am field testing a new NGSS aligned curriculum for my 6th grade science class. Mosa Mack Mosa Mack: Science Detective is a web-based series of animated science mysteries and corresponding inquiry-based curriculum activities. The pre-library beta version, which includes three episodes and curriculum supplements like discussion guides, hands-on activities, vocabulary cards and engineering challenges, is available for free or with a yearly license (which is what I bought with my fall EPAK grant).
The episodes are six minutes long and teach a science topic through a character-based mystery. Each episode ends with an activity in which students have to solve the mystery using evidence gathered from the episode. The initial content is geared towards 4th-8th grade classrooms, and teachers can project them for a whole class or break students into smaller groups to explore mysteries tailored to them.
A couple highlights:
-Spanish subtitles for videos
-NGSS aligned
-Engineering projects for each unit
-A working science curriculum!!! yay!
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