2nd Grade, Research and Inquiry Activities

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