Mystery Science Lessons for Kids up to Fifth Grade

Here’s another company that’s offering some free educational content for our kids in these weird times. Mystery Science has a selection of its video science lessons for kids from kindergarten through grade five available for free.

You can use them without creating an account or providing an email address, and there’s a nice variety of topics including things like why do we get hiccups, why are polar bears white, could you build a house out of paper, can animals get sunburn, could a mountain turn into a volcano and how deep is the ocean, to name a few.

There are both mini lessons that are a15 to 30 minutes for when you just need a little something to fill time, as well as full lessons of 45 to 90 minutes including an activity for kids to do.

Both parents and teachers can also sign up for free accounts to see more than 200 lessons per grade if they need more science lessons for their kiddos.

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Check out our Online store for special buys on Educational gifts We find bulk items and end-of-stock supplies to bring you heavily discounted items. (make sure you check our store often so you don’t miss out on new stock). We also have some free printable files, including a Science PDF for learning about Microscopes.

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When my daughter was young she loved the PBS show “Peg + Cat,” and if you’ve got a fan of that show in your house this activity will be even better, but it doesn’t matter if your kids don’t already know these characters to learn about fractions with pizza.

There’s an episode of “Peg + Cat” where they are working in a pizza place and have to divide pies to put different kinds of toppings of different parts of the pie (there’s also an online game with the same concept, which I can’t believe still exists because my kiddo played it years ago).

Inspired by the episode and a companion book, Nature Homeschool developed an activity for learning about fractions and entrepreneurship using pizza. They developed a pizza shop and used the printables and teaching guide from Teacher Vision to learn more about fractions using pizza as the foundation. Their post also has a pizza order form printable you can use when you role play a pizza shop.

The Inspiration Edit also has some cute printable worksheets using a pizza to learn about fractions. And Life Over Cs has some fun printable pizza fraction activities, such as the printable fraction memory game shown here.

If you want to increase the pretend play factor with this one, you can make a pizza and toppings out of paper, cardboard or felt. Or use a paper plate as your crust and simple shapes cut out of paper to be toppings. The pretend play pizza making kit from Glued to My Crafts uses an individual slice, but you could do the same thing with a whole pie’s worth of slices.

Kids Craft Room has another fun pizza play food idea, this time using salt dough for the crust. The toppings are made out of felt so you can practice putting different toppings on a fraction of the pizza and learn as you play.

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