Research Skills
Research skills can be introduced or refined and reinforced using any of the Nonfiction Minutes. The icons below take you to Minutes that have specific research skills and strategy suggestions on the corresponding Transfer 2 Teaching pages. Get to the T2T pages by clicking on the icon at the top or bottom of each Minute.
Why Do We Have a School Summer Vacation?
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America’s Unknown Soldier
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Kidnapped!
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The Deadly Eruption of Mount St. Helens
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The Fish That Sees Red
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Amazing Maize
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Anne Frank and Her Diary
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Mr. Irving: Literary Adventurer
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A Brief Flicker of Glory
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Alex the Parrot, A Real Bird Brain
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Alberto Santos-Dumont
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Knot Garden
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Thomas Edison: Cutthroat Businessman
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How to Go From Being Wanted by the Police to Working For Them
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The Night Witches: Dangerous Women
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Memorial Day
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Edmonia's Statues
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Luke Skywatcher
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Banging on the Ear Drum
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Spaced Out
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How Old Are You—in Seconds?
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Cinco de Mayo
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Tecumseh, the "Shooting Star"
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The Birth and Growing Pains of the First National Park
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"Ride, Sally, Ride!"
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Climate Change: The Facts and Consequences
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The Big Deal in Mr. Peale's Museum
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In Your Great Grandmother’s Kitchen
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Every Day is Earth Day
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Here Come the Cicadas
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Earth's Emergency Heat Valve: The Hurricane
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World Penguin Day
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Bites of Passage
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How Did Building Bikes Help the Wright Brothers Invent the Airplane?
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April Fool’s Day
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Flat Paper Flight
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The Aristocrat and the Spy
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Meet Earth's Incredible Gliders
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Mary E. Lease, Queen of the Populist Tornado
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Happy Birthday Thomas Jefferson - Smuggler!
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Defining Weather, Global Warming, and Climate Change
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Mary Kingsley
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The Not-So Twins: Space Travel Discouraged
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Tick Tock: A Carpenter Solves an Ocean Riddle
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Caterpillars to the Rescue
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Tardigrades Make the Grade
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Row, Row, Row Your Boats
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A Man of His Word
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Everything Is Connected: The Butterfly and the Wolf
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Shocking Fanny Wright
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Dr. Seuss Lives!
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Code Talkers: Native Americans Come to the Rescue, But Why?
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The Magician of Iron
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Snakes on the Dinner Table! Life in a Sod House
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How the Composer Handel Used His Music To Help British Orphans
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Happy Pi Day!
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Polly Wants a President
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Sarah Keys Evans: An Early Pioneer for Justice
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Reviving the Olympics
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Isaac Newton's Wonder Years
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George Washington’s Hair
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"We Shall Overcome": The Power of a Song
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The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
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Marian Anderson: A Singer’s Victory
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Why is February Black History Month?
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The Staley Swindle and the Super Bowl
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The Man Who Held Up Britain
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The Science Behind the Olympics
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A Renaissance Man—4,000 Years Before the Renaissance
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Taz in Big Trouble
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Caught!
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Dr Percy Julian: Forgotten Genius
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Flu and the Constitution
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The Great Boston Molasses Flood
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A Transcontinental First
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Smelling Feet or Smelly Feet?
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Amazing Grace
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Did the Hero Dog Survive?
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Marie Curie: An Elite Player in the Science Game
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The Architect Who Hated Straight Lines
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The Near-Death Experience of Football
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Take the Helicopter Pilot Challenge
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Renaissance Bad Boy
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Dear Friend
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Morty Makes a Stink
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Damping Down Danger
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Standing With Dr. King
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If the Earth Were a Button
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To the Ends of the Earth
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What Can You Learn from a Holiday Light and a Glass Cup?
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Gong Farmers: Their Crop Was ...Crap
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I Met a Man About A Parrot
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The Taste of Death
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Reading Has Gone to the Dogs
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The Flaw in the Seedless Banana
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Did Theodore Roosevelt Ban Christmas Trees?
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Happy New Year--in August?
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What's the Biggest Number?
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Ants in a Jam
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Toxic Armpits
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A Raindrop Quiz
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In Praise of Vultures
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The Story of Hanukkah
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Dickens' A Christmas Carol
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Percy the Cat
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Young Frederick Grant Goes to War
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Are You as Smart as an Elephant?
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The Mouse That Roared
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The Mystery of the Alternating Nostrils
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Lonesome George: The Face of Extinction
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The Wednesday Night Crush
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The Way Polar Bears Stay Warm Is Cool
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Mystery of the Blue Marble
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Move Over, Marco Polo!
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Let’s Blow Up the King!
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Baking With Bugs: How to Write a Recipe
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How Skunks Play Fair
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Chimponaut: A Hero Forgotten and Remembered
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Renaissance Road Trips
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A Flight to Remember
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Hopping Ahead of Climate Change
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Musical Manias
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Vincent Van Gogh and the Case of the Severed Ear
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How to Take an Elephant's Temperature
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The Painter Was a Slave
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The Unbreakable Secret Code: Kryptos
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Take a Turn at Turnip Carving
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Mary Makes a Monster
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Rot Rocks!
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Keeping in Touch
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Sergeant Stubby
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Invasion of the Wolf Spiders
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The Oldest Tree on Earth
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Rethinking Smokey Bear's Message
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Tiny Frogs are Big News
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Some Painful Truth
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White House Friends With Fur and Feathers
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No Shoes for You
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Earthquakes on the Mississippi?
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Roads Made of Water
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What's It Like, Being a Wolf?
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When a Jet Wore a Costume
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Alligator Smiles
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How to Extinguish a Fire With a Bag of Potato Chips
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Animals in Space
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Hard Cracker for Hard Times
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How to Interview a Historic Building
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What Is a Light Year?
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Something's Rotten in Rome
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Flying Into the Eye of a Storm
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The King's Butt
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Getting Your Head 3D Printed
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How Do You Become a Writer?
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