Explore the concept of generating questions. Your curious learners choose a scientific question from a bowl and, as they listen to an article being read, they use that question starter to come up with their own questions. Then, they have...

Seventh graders read a Natural Inquirer article about something science related, and write a letter to a scientist asking for clarification on the article. In this reading and writing lesson plan, 7th graders ask for clarification on 4...

Students read and write poetry.  In this poetry writing lesson, students read and discuss several poems with a "forest" theme, and then write their own forest haiku. Possible publication in the Natural Inquirer is described.

Students create science podcasts. In this biology lesson, students read a Natural inquirer article and then summarize the article. Students create radio podcasts based in the articles they read.

Students read a monograph from Natural Inquirer. In this monograph lesson, students read and write the main idea on a sticky note. They break into groups and compare and contrast their ideas. 

In this defining problems worksheet, learners read an article from the Natural Inquirer. Students then identify the title of the article and the problem addressed in the article. The articles are not included.