Research and Inquiry Activities

Kindergarten, Book 1

Families

1. Whose Baby Am I? - Poem Title
2. The Picnic at Apple Park - Night Animals
3. Peter's Chair - Family Fun

Friends

1. What Do You Like? - Best Friends
2. Friends All Around - Making Friends
3. Simon and Molly plus Hester - Helping Hands

Transportation

1. The Bus for Us - Ways to Travel
2. On the Go - Traveling All Over the World
3. Duck on a Bike - How Do You Go to School

Food

1. Apple Farmer Annie - From Blueberry Field to Blueberry Jam
2. Our Special Sweet Potato Pie - A Healthy Meal
3. Yoko - Family Food Traditions

Animals

1. Mama Cat has Three Kittens - Big Cat Colors
2. Animal Babies A B C - Animal Matching Fun
3. Mole and the Baby Bird - Where Does it Live?

Neighborhood

1. Russ and the Firehouse - My Neighborhood
2. Bus Stops - I'm Good at Helping
3. Alicia's Happy Day - Neighborhood Workers

Weather

1. A Rainy Day - Thunder and Lightning
2. In the Yard - Seasons
3. Bear Snores On - What Clothes Do You Wear?

Plants

1. Oak Trees - What Do Plants Need to Live?
2. Seed Secrets - Seeds and Plants
3. Sunflower House - Parts of a Plant

Amazing Creatures

1. Beetles - Bug Parts
2. Fish Faces - Go Fish!
3. If the Dinosaurs Came Back - When Did These Animals Live?

I Know a Lot!

1. What Do You Know? - Time to Rhyme!
2. Warthogs Paint: A Messy Color Book - Letters All Together
3. Turtle Splash! - Counting Down Your Food!

1st Grade

Book 1, All About Us

1. Pam and Sam - What I Do Best
2. I Can! Can You? - Moving Animals
3. Time For Kids: How You Grew - Growing Up
4. Pet Tricks - Unusual Pets
5. Soccer - Team Work

Book 2, Outside My Door

1. Animal Moms and Dads - Baby Animals
2. Little Red Hen - Work Together
3. Time For Kids: A Prairie Dog Home - Animals Everywhere
4. The Fun Kids' Band - Rhythm and Music
5. On My Way to School - Riddles

Book 3, Let's Connect!

1. Kate's Game - When You Mail a Letter
2. Kids Can Help - Poems from Around the World
3. Time For Kids: Short Shadows, Long Shadows - Shadows and the Sun’s Position
4. Smile, Mike! - Family Fun
5. Gram and Me - Chinese New Year

Book 4, Nature Watch

1. Pelican was Hungry - Grounded Birds
2. June Robot Cleans Up - Invention Ideas
3. Time For Kids: Stormy Weather - Let it Snow
4. Meet Ben Franklin - I See
5. Little Rabbit - Koala Little?

Book 5, Adventures All Around

1. Olivia - Cats in Art
2. The Kite (from Days with Frog and Toad) - Watch It Move!
3. Time For Kids: Kids' Inventions - Inventions!
4. Whistle for Willie - You Can Do It!
5. Fruit is a Suitcase for Seeds - Growing Upwards

Book 5, Let's Discover!

1. Dot Jabber and the Big Bug Mystery - Butterfly Symmetry
2. Blue Jay Finds a Way - To the Moon!
3. Time For Kids: Cool Jobs - Out of the Ordinary!
4. A Tiger Cub Grows Up - The Tiger
5. Sand Castle - Ice Castles Sand Castles

2nd Grade

Book 1, Relationships

1. David's New Friends - School Workers
2. Mr. Putter and Tabby Pour the Tea - Making Friends
3. Time For Kids: Fighting the Fire - Firefighters
4. Meet Rosina - Rhyming Poems
5. My Name is Yoon - Immigrants

Book 1, Growth and Change

1. The Tiny Seed - Plant Parts
2. A Harbor Seal Pup Grows Up - Pet Care
3. Time For Kids: A Trip to the Emergency Room - Hospitals
4. Farfallina and Marcel - How Animals Grow
5. There's Nothing Like Baseball - Fitness

Book 1, Better Together

1. Head, Body, Legs: A Story from Liberia - Oral Traditions
2. Officer Buckle and Gloria - Fire Safety
3. Time For Kids: Meet the Super Croc - Dinosaurs
4. The Alvin Ailey Kids: Dancing As a Team - Music
5. Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type - Farming

Book 2, Land, Sea, Sky

1. Splish! Splash! Animal Baths - Fables
2. Goose's Story - Animal Rescue
3. Time For Kids: A Way to Help Planet Earth - Helping Planet Earth
4. Super Storms - Weather and You
5. Nutik, the Wolf Pup - Wolves

Book 2, Discoveries

1. Dig Wait Listen: A Desert Toad's Tale - The Desert
2. Pushing Up the Sky - Plays
3. Time For Kids: Columbus Explores New Lands - Continents and Oceans
4. The Ugly Vegetables - Vegetables
5. The Moon - The Moon

Book 2, Expressions

1. Mice and Beans - Fractions
2. Stirring Up Memories - Poetry
3. Time For Kids: Music of the Stone Age - Art
4. African-American Inventors - Inventors and Inventions
5. Babu's Song - Africa

3rd Grade

Book 1, Our World

1. First Day Jitters - Making Friends
2. Dear Juno - Telephone History
3. Time For Kids: Whose Habitat Is It? - Communities
4. Penguin Chick - Cinquain Poetry
5. The Perfect Pet - Mammal Games

Book 1, Investigations

1. The Strongest One - Wiley and the Hairy Man
2. Wolf! - Wolves
3. Time For Kids: What's in Store for the Future? - The Future
4. The Planets in Our Solar System - The Sun: Our Star
5. Author: A True Story - Poetry/Haiku

Book 1, Discoveries

1. Stone Soup - Lunch
2. One Riddle, One Answer - Haiku
3. Time For Kids: Saving the Sand Dunes - Ecosystems
4. The Jones Family Express - Travel Tips
5. What Do Illustrators Do? - Animation

Book 2, Determination

1. Cook-A-Doodle-Doo! - Cooking Show
2. Seven Spools of Thread - Getting Along
3. Time For Kids: Washington Weed Whackers - Natural Resources
4. Here's My Dollar - Poetry
5. My Very Own Room - Animal Measurements

Book 2, Challenges

1. Boom Town - Business
2. Beatrice's Goat - Charitable Organizations
3. Time For Kids: A Carousel of Dreams - People on the Move
4. Sound is Energy! - Sound Knowledge
5. Animal Homes - Limericks

Book 2, Achievements

1. Pecan Harvesting Tools - Pioneer Farming Tools
2. Wilbur's Boast - Caring for Pets
3. Time For Kids: An American Hero Flies Again - Citizens
4. Mother to Tigers - Fables
5. Home Grown Butterflies - Poetry

4th Grade, Book 1

Let's Explore

1. The Mystery of the Missing Lunch - Solving Crimes with Fingerprints
2. A Walk in the Desert - Cinquains and Other Poetry
3. Time For Kids: Animals Come Home to Our National Parks - Our National Parks
4. The Astronaut and the Onion - Space Travel
5. The Raft - Wildlife

Take a Stand

1. Mighty Jackie - Making Baseball Cards
2. My Diary from Here to There - Coming to the U.S.A
3. Time For Kids: Stealing Beauty - Focus on China
4. How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightening - Concrete Poems
5. Dear Mr. Winston - Snake Facts

Making a Difference

1. Food Chains: Predator vs. Prey - Build a Food Chain
2. My Brother Martin - Writing Letters
3. Time For Kids: Kid Reporters at Work - Volunteering
4. Mystic Horse - Powwows
5. Snowflake Bentley - Haiku

Viewpoints

1. Dear Mrs. LaRue - Border Collies
2. The Blind Hunter - Creative Solutions
3. Time For Kids: The Power of Oil - Energy: Power Source
4. Adelina's Whales - Limericks
5. Waves and Climate: Reshaping the Earth - Weathering

Relationships

1. Because of Winn-Dixie - Free Verse
2. Digestion and Circulation: A Frog's Story - Digestive System Tour
3. Time For Kids: Exploring the Undersea Territory - Explorers
4. Computers: The Future of Art - Be a Digital Artist
5. Wild Horses - Tall Tales

Discovery

1. The Gold Rush Game - Gold
2. The Cricket in Times Square - Bats
3. Time For Kids: Meet a Bone-ified Explorer - Discovering Nature’s Secrets
4. My Brothers' Flying Machine - Narrative Poems
5. The Life and Times of the Ant - Fables

5th Grade, Book 1

Challenges

1. What Does It Take To Be A Scientist? - Be a Famous Inventor
2. Observing the Night Sky - Out In Space
3. Time For Kids: Forests of the World - Trees
4. Ultimate Field Trip 5: Blasting Off to Space Academy - Poems
5. Pipilo and the Roof Dogs - Dogs

Discoveries

1. Shiloh - Careers
2. Rattlers! - Myths and Legends: Ancient Greece
3. Time For Kids: Maya Lin, Architect of Memory - National Monuments
4. Seasons in the Tropics - Changing Seasons, Changing Leaves
5. Black Cowboy, Wild Horses - Song Lyrics

Turning Points

1. Sleds on Boston Common - Narrative Poetry
2. When Esther Morris Headed West - Women's Suffrage
3. Time For Kids: Beyond the Horizon - The Environment
4. My Great-Grandmother's Gourd - The Desert
5. Launch into Science: Kennedy Space Center - Protecting the Environment with Science

Experiences

1. Goin' Someplace Special - Civil Rights
2. Carlos and the Skunk - Animal Defenses
3. Time For Kids: Getting Out the Vote - Early Political Parties
4. Hurricanes - Hurricane Poetry
5. Focus on Florida's Fishing - Rainforest Protection

Achievements

1. Spirit of Endurance - Antarctica
2. Weslandia - Plant Breeding
3. Time For Kids: A Historic Journey - Studying Nature
4. The Unbreakable Code - Cinquains and Other Kinds of Poems
5. The Gri Gri Tree - Whales

Great Ideas

1. Personal Choices: Learning - Aesop's Fables
2. An Underwater Park - The Everglades
3. Time For Kids: A Dream Comes True - Physical Fitness
4. Up in the Air: The Story of Balloon Flight - Poetry
5. Hidden Worlds - Native American Myths