Research and Inquiry Activities

1st Grade

Book 1, All About Us

1. Pam and Sam - Download What I Do BestWhat I Do Best
2. I Can,Too! - Moving Animals
3. How You Grew - Growing Up
4. Flip - Unusual Pets
5. Soccer - Team Work

Book 2, Our Families, Our Neighbors

1. Animal Moms and Dads - Download Baby AnimalsBaby Animals
2. Little Red Hen - Work Together
3. On the Map - Neighborhoods
4. The Pigs, the Wolf, and the Mud - Ice Castles Sand Castles
5. Beth and the Band - Rhythm and Music

Book 3, Have Fun!

1. On My Way to School - Riddles
2. Smile, Mike! - Family Fun
3. Masks! Masks! Masks! - Rhythm and Music
4. Rose Robot Cleans Up - Recycling
5. Kids Have Fun! - Chinese New Year

Book 4, Let’s Team Up

1. Drakes Tail - Koala Little?
2. Gram and Me - Chinese New Year
3. César Chávez - Recycling
4. The Kite (from “Days with Frog and Toad”) - Watch It Move!
5. Animal Teams - Grounded Birds

Book 5, Nature Watch

1. Kitten’s First Full Moon - I See
2. Meet Ben Franklin - I See
3. Stormy Weather - Let it Snow
4. Happy Fall! (from “Pinwheel Days”) - Ice Castles Sand Castles
5. A Tiger Cub Grows Up - The Tiger

Book 6, Adventures

1. Olivia - Cats in Art
2. Whistle for Willie - You Can Do It!
3. Cool Jobs - Out of the Ordinary!
4. Dot and Jabber and the Big Bug Mystery - Butterfly Symmetry
5. Super Oscar - You Can Do It!

2nd Grade

Book 1, Friends and Family

1. David’s New Friends - Aquarium Animals
2. Mr. Putter & Tabby Pour the Tea - Rhyming Poetry
3. Their Native Tongue - Finding Treasures
4. Meet Rosina - Rhyming Poems
5. My Name is Yoon - Immigrants

Book 1, Community Heroes

1. Babu’s Song - Africa
2. Tomás and the Library Lady - Historical Heroes
3. Fighting the Fire - Firefighters
4. One Grain of Rice - Two Tales
5. African-American Inventors - Inventors and Inventions

Book 1, Let’s Create

1. The Alvin Ailey Kids: Dancing As a Team - Dance!
2. Abuelo and the Three Bears - Same and Different Fairy Tale
3. Music of the Stone Age - Art
4. Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type - Farming
5. Stirring Up Memories - Poetry

Book 2, Better Together

1. Head, Body, Legs: A Story from Liberia - Force and Motion
2. Officer Buckle and Gloria - Fire Safety
3. A Trip to the Emergency Room - Hospitals
4. A Harbor Seal Pup Grows Up - Pet Care
5. Mice and Beans - States of Matter

Book 2, Growing and Changing

1. The Tiny Seed - Plant Parts
2. The Ugly Vegetables - Vegetables
3. Meet the Super Croc - Dinosaurs
4. Farfallina and Marcel - How Animals Grow
5. Nutik, the Wolf Pup - Wolves

Book 2, The World Around Us

1. Dig Wait Listen: A Desert Toad’s Tale - The Desert
2. Splish! Splash! Animal Baths - Fables
3. A Way to Help Planet Earth - Endangered Animals
4. Super Storms - Weather and You
5. Pushing Up the Sky - Plays

3rd Grade

Book 1, Let’s Learn

1. First Day Jitters - Citizens
2. Amazing Grace - Personification
3. Earth Smart - Types of Schools
4. Wolf! - Wolves
5. My Very Own Room - Architecture

Book 1, Neighborhoods and Communities

1. Boom Town - Business
2. Home-Grown Butterflies (from “Ranger Rick”) - Poetry
3. Coasting to California - Ancient Communities
4. Here’s My Dollar - Poetry
5. A Castle on Viola Street - Volunteering

Book 1, Express Yourself

1. Author: A True Story - Poetry/Haiku
2. Dear Juno - Telephone History
3. Messaging Mania - Online Safety
4. What Do Illustrators Do? - Animation
5. The Jones Family Express - Transportation

Book 2, Our Teams

1. Seven Spools of Thread - Day and Night
2. Nacho and Lolita - Cooking Show
3. A Solution to Pollution - Volunteering
4. Ramona and her Father - Poetry
5. Out of This World! The Ellen Ochoa Story - Poetry

Book 2, Those Amazing Animals

1. Penguin Chick - Cinquain Poetry
2. Animal Homes - Unusual Animals
3. Call of the Wild - Animals
4. Wilbur’s Boast (from “Charlotte’s Web”) - Fables
5. Unique Animals - Foreshadowing

Book 2, Storytellers

1. Stone Soup - Lunch
2. The Strongest One - Wiley and the Hairy Man
3. Tales of the Trickster - Storytelling
4. Cook-a-Doodle-Doo! - Cooking Show
5. One Riddle, One Answer - Fairy Tales

4th Grade, Book 1

Growing Up

1. My Diary from Here to There - César Chávez
2. The Adventures of Ali Baba Bernstein - The Arabian Nights
3. Kids Reporters at Work - Volunteering
4. The Astronaut and the Onion - Poetry
5. Because of Winn-Dixie - Free Verse

Making a Difference

1. My Brother Martin - Writing Letters
2. Mighty Jackie - Bridget “Biddy” Mason
3. Making a Splash - The Paralympics
4. Wild Horses - Tall Tales
5. Mystic Horse - The Pony Express

The Power of Words

1. When I Went to the Library - Snake Facts
2. Dear Mrs. LaRue - Border Collies
3. Ranita, the Frog Princess - Tales Told Around the World
4. Words Add Up to Success - Great Speeches
5. Me and Uncle Romie - Be a Digital Artist

Working Together

1. The Cricket in Times Square - Bats
2. The Life and Times of the Ant - Fables
3. Writing on the Wall - Global Youth Service Day
4. The Earth Dragon Awakes - Earthquake
5. My Brothers’ Flying Machine - Narrative Poems

Habitats

1. A Walk in the Desert - Build a Food Chain
2. Roadrunner’s Dance - Trickster Tales
3. Animals Come Home to Our National Parks - Yosemite National Park
4. At Home in the Coral Reef - Myths
5. Adelina’s Whales - Limericks

Problem Solving

1. Leah’s Pony - Journal Entry
2. The Gold Rush Game - Gold
3. Taking the Lead - Global Children’s Organization
4. Snowflake Bentley - Haiku
5. How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning - Concrete Poems

5th Grade, Book 1

Taking a Stand

1. Goin’ Someplace Special - Civil Rights
2. Shiloh - Careers
3. Maya Lin, Architect of Memory - National Monuments
4. The Night of San Juan - Let’s Surf!
5. Sleds on Boston Common - Narrative Poetry

The American West

1. Valley of the Moon: The Diary of Maria Rosalia De Milagros - Settling the West
2. A Historic Journey - Studying Nature
3. Black Cowboy Wild Horses - Song Lyrics
4. Davy Crockett Saves the World - Tall Tales
5. When Esther Morris Headed West - Women's Suffrage

Using Your Wits

1. The Catch of the Day, A Trickster Play - Fables
2. The Golden Mare, The Firebird, and the Magic Ring - Cinderella Tales
3. Tricky Tales - Corridos
4. Blancaflor - Rancho Life
5. The Unbreakable Code - Cinquains and Other Kinds of Poems

Team Up to Survive

1. Spirit of Endurance - The Poles
2. Ultimate Field Trip 5: Blasting Off to Space Academy - Mythology
3. Heroes in Time of Need - Go Travel!
4. Zathura - Astronomy
5. Skunk Scout - National Parks

Investigations

1. Hidden Worlds - Poems
2. These Robots Are Wild! - Discoveries and Inventions
3. Up in the Air: The Story of Balloon Flight - Write a Haiku!
4. Hurricanes - Hurricane Poetry

Changes

1. Miss Alaineus - National Spelling Bee
2. Carlos and the Skunk - Animal Defenses
3. A Dream Comes True - Paralympics
4. Weslandia - Hybrid Produce
5. The Gri Gri Tree - Whales

6th Grade, Book 1

Our Stories

1. Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street - Interviews
2. Breaking Through - Mentors
3. A Life in Words - Libraries
4. LAFFF - Science Fiction
5. The Case of the Phantom Poet - Movie Survey

Ancient Civilizations

1. The Emperor’s Silent Army - Lyric Poetry
2. These Walls Can Talk - Life as an Inca
3. Lost City: The Discovery of Machu Picchu - Machu Picchu
4. The Magic Gourd - African Folktales

A Question of Values

1. Juan Verdades - Cowboy Life
2. Rumpelstiltskin’s Daughter - Myths
3. Saving Grace - Helping Others
4. Ta-Na-E-Ka - Fables
5. Honus and Me - Collections

Achieving Dreams

1. Seeing Things His Own Way - Yorick the Bionic Skeleton
2. Major Taylor: Champion Cyclist - Poetry Fun
3. Take a Bow - Jobs
4. Leonardo’s Horse - Early Flying Machines
5. How Tía Lola Came to Stay - Baseball

Our Incredible Earth

1. Volcanoes - Myths
2. The Dog of Pompeii - Pompeii
3. The Big One - Volcanoes
4. Icebergs and Glaciers - Poetry
5. Exploring the Titanic - Tall Tales

Rescue 9-1-1

1. Summer of the Swans - Rescue Dogs
2. Interrupted Journey - Poetry
3. Building Green - Energy
4. The Great Serum Race - Haiku
5. The Great Fire - Alexandria’s Royal Library