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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Adventures in Nonfiction: A Guided Inquiry Journey
   Students are guided through an informal exploration of nonfiction texts and child-oriented Websites, learning browsing and skimming techniques for the purpose of gathering interesting information.
   
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Animal Study: From Fiction to Facts
   Students listen to fiction and nonfiction read-alouds and explore selected Websites to identify factual information about animals. This lesson focuses on ants, but can be adapted to any animal.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   As Slippery as an Eel: An Ocean Unit Exploring Simile and Metaphor
   Students play with simile and metaphor as they study the ocean and use figurative language to write a class book about it.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Creating Question and Answer Books through Guided Research
   This series of activities is designed to teach research strategies. Students use KWL charts to guide their inquiry and publish their results in a collaborative question and answer book.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Digging Up Details on Worms: Using the Language of Science in an Inquiry Study
   This lesson, in which students research worms in order to create a classroom habitat, incorporates reading and writing across content areas as well as math and science activities.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   How Does My Garden Grow? Writing in Science Field Journals
   Students plant a garden and study its growth using the inquiry process of questioning and exploring. As they research and study, students record their observations in a field journal.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Investigating Animals: Using Nonfiction for Inquiry-based Research
   Inspired by their curiosity about animals, students work together to research an animal of their choice and present the information they gather to an authentic audience.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Listen, Look, and Learn: An Information-Gathering Process
   After listening to and discussing the story Score One for the Sloths, primary students research the sloth. Students use a variety of resources, including an information wheel graphic organizer.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Mail Time! An Integrated Postcard and Geography Study
   Children write and receive postcards from friends and family, and then chart where all those postcards come from on a classroom map.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Martin Luther King, Jr. and Me: Identifying with a Hero
    This lesson provides ideas for celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by encouraging students to explore the connections between Dr. King and themselves through journaling and inquiry-based research.

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