3rd Grade, Research and Inquiry Activities

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 - Architecture

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. The Printer - Firefighters
  5. Animal Homes - Limericks

Book 2, Achievements

  1. A Castle on Viola Street - Helping Out
  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