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List of Mentor Books that Demonstrate Inquiry

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Picture Books That Demonstrate Inquiry - Sheet1

List of Mentor Books that Demonstrate Inquiry

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Kathy Thomas
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Mentor Texts that Demonstrate an Inquiry Mindset

*Cover, Title, Author,with links that you may or may not want to use with students/Reading the real book out loud can't be replaced by a video....

Cover Title & Author Cover Title & Author

Ada Twist, Scientist


The Watcher
Andrea Beaty
Jeanette Winter

Story of Jane Goodall


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScOBTc-ppXk https://youtu.be/5tQcSKH37AY

Going Places Leonardo and The Flying Boy


Peter and Paul Reynolds Laurence Anholt
Fantastic Book on the
Leonardo DaVinci- based on
Power of Inquiry
historical facts, illustrations of
his notebooks which are
https://youtu.be/0uxq6d7Ql80 powerful examples of inquiry,
observations
https://youtu.be/Jnrdx8_HXWU

Stella Star of the Sea The Girl who Never Made


Marie-Louise Gay Mistakes
Creative Questioning, Terrific book for celebrating
Thinking outside the box our mistakes. Being an
inquirer means being a risk
taker.
https://youtu.be/25wzSHjqzSk
https://youtu.be/oQG4vFGd6eU
If The Real McCoy
Sarah Perry Wendy Towle

Creative Thinking
Elija McCoy, engineer and
inventor-son of a former
https://youtu.be/EpqgO2P0uVg slave had 57 patents.

https://youtu.be/MPHDsxMlWHM

The Mysteries of Harris The Girl With a Mind for Math


Burdick Julia Finely Mosca
Chris Van Allsburg

Raye Montague, African


Great book for generating American woman who designed
ideas, making the first submarine for the US
connections, careful Navy. STEM Picture Book.
observations Rhyming w/ endnotes
https://youtu.be/ZVk2MCgKNrM https://youtu.be/L0tM4NbOM1k

The Heart and the Bottle The World is Not a Rectangle:


Oliver Jeffers A Portrait of Architect Zaha
Hadid
A beautiful book about
wonder, change (with Jeanette Winter
death of a loved one), This is a beautiful book about a Muslim
grief woman who thinks outside the box,
observes all that is around her, and
https://youtu.be/Aj5lSmhUhhM designs unusual buildings around the
world. It is beautifully illustrated.
https://youtu.be/78q5PnSiMBc
The Boy Who Invented TV
What Do You Do With An The Story of Philo Farnsworth
Idea?
Kobi Yamada Kathleen Krull
True Story -Longer picture
Independent Thinker, book, observaton, wonder,
nurturing an idea, open inquiry model in action
minded, change, action
https://youtu.be/mSfNv0-SgJM https://youtu.be/2jvmvd_jdVI

Imagine a Place The Crayon Man: The True


Sarah Thomas & Rob Story of the Invention of
Gonsalves Crayola Crayons
Natasha Biebow
Ture story of the man who observed,
listened,nature, loved color, and asked
https://youtu.be/Gqia2M75MNM
questions. Through much work and trial
and error, he invented crayola crayons.
https://youtu.be/u46xjLui0uU

Zoom On a Beam of Light: A Story


Istvan Banyai of Albert Einstein
Jennifer Berne
Careful observations,
making predictions, open The power of curiosity, asking
minded to change in questions, thinking outside the
thinking, what you initially box.
see may not be...
https://youtu.be/Kgi-RCEjOLw https://youtu.be/-4YTFAiSUi4
Your Fantastic Elastic
Brain Stretch It, Shape It
By JoAnn Deak,
Illustrated by Sarah Ackerley
Explains how the brain functions,
and stresses the importance of
"growing your brain" by making
mistakes.
https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=8QSPfnQCIY0

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