Solve Mysteries With Science (K–Grade 1)

Kodely: Detective Science, Solving Mysteries With Science

Tiny detectives, big discoveries

Are you a curious detective who loves mysteries, secret codes, and figuring out how things work? In this class, K–1 scientists turn clues into experiments — lifting fingerprints with safe powders, decoding invisible-ink messages, tracking footprints, and testing what sinks, floats, and fizzes to solve the day’s case. Each week ends with a take-home clue kit or detective tool you built yourself, and the session finishes with a showcase where you crack a final mystery in front of your family.

LED BY  Kodely Academy. Kodely provides a trained Studio lead plus all materials, devices and take-home kits; individual instructor names are assigned closer to the start date.

Contact: Sri Narayanan · sri@kodely.io

Program highlights

• Fingerprint lab and magnifier build: how real prints are found and lifted, using a safe, washable method.
• Invisible ink and cipher wheels: write and decode secret messages to take home.
• Observation and sorting challenges: classification skills like a field scientist.
• Simple chemical clues: color-change tests to identify mystery powders.
• A team mystery board: every session builds toward a final case file.
• No screens: entirely hands-on, with all materials and a detective pouch included.
• Students leave with: a detective pouch of tools they built and a solved case.