Students at HKA are wonderful inquirers; they always have lots of wonderings and questions and I love when I get a chance to be part of their finding answers to these questions during inquiry circles. I know that the questions and wonderings don’t stop during the holidays; so how about doing some inquiries together? Record your questions and wonderings and what you think you already know about the topic. Then explore available resources (books, websites, people knowledgeable about the topic, your own experiments and observations) to find answers to your questions. |
A few picture books around inquiring Ada Twist, Scientist (Andrea Beaty) Because of an Acorn (Lola M. Scaefer) Goodnight Spaceman (Michelle Robinson) Professor Astrocat’s Atomic Adventure (Dominic Walliman) Wilfred Gordon MacDonald Partridge (Mem Fox) A few chapter books and middle grade novels around inquiring Sky Hawk (Gill Lewis) Beetle Boy (M.G. Leonard) Frank Einstein series (Jon Scieszka) George’s Secret Key to the Universe (Lucy and Stephen Hawking) The Wheel on the School (Meindert DeJong) |
A few picture biographies about famous inquirers and scientists Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian (Margarita Engle) Star Stuff (Stephanie Sisson) Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine (Laurie Wallmark) On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein (Jennifer Berne) Me... Jane (Patrick McDonnell) A few more nonfiction books to make you curious The Everything Kids’ Science Experiments Book (Tom Robinson) The Way Things Work (David Macaulay) Tiny Creatures: The World of Microbes (Nicola Davies) The ABC Book of Rockets, Planets and Outer Space (Helen Martin) Jake’s Bones (Jake McGowan-Lowe) |