6th Grade, Research and Inquiry Resources

Take Action

  1. The Summer of the Swans - Rescue Dogs
  2. Lost City: The Discovery of Machu Picchu - Machu Picchu
  3. Time For Kids: Gecko Glue, Cockroach Scouts, and Spider Silk Bridges - Scientists
  4. The Magic Gourd - African Folktales
  5. Interrupted Journey - Poetry

Saving the Day

  1. How Tía Lola Came to Stay - Baseball
  2. The Night of the Pomegranate - Solar System
  3. Time For Kids: Zoo Story - Natural Disasters
  4. Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter - Myths
  5. The Great Serum Race - Haiku

Great Ideas

  1. Juan Verdades - Cowboy Life
  2. Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street - Interviews
  3. Time For Kids: Building Green - Energy
  4. The Emperor's Silent Army - Lyric Poetry
  5. The Case of the Phantom Poet - Movie Survey

Achievements

  1. Seeing Things His Own Way - Yorick the Bionic Skeleton
  2. Exploring the Titanic - Tall Tales
  3. Time For Kids: Saving Grace - Helping Others
  4. Major Taylor: Champion Cyclist - Visual Poems
  5. A Single Shard - Apprenticeships: Now and Then

Turning Points

  1. Breaking Through - Mentors
  2. Ta-Na-E-Ka - Fables
  3. Time For Kids: Many Countries, One Currency - Money
  4. Honus and Me - Collections
  5. Let it Shine: Rosa Parks - Poetry: Figures of Speech

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

  1. Leonardo's Horse - Early Flying Machines
  2. LAFFF - Science Fiction
  3. Time For Kids: These Walls Can Talk - Communication
  4. Breaking into Print - Poetry Personification
  5. The Dog of Pompeii - Volcanoes