Thursday, June 16, 2011

Inquisitiveness - Detectives

2 comments:

Shannon said...

We did this lesson when my children were pre-school - 3rd grade level. I posted our favorite books at http://www.squidoo.com/detectives-lesson-plan .

Heather said...

I am doing this now with my kids K - 4th grade and these are some books we have enjoyed:

Spy by Richard Platt (an Eyewitness book)
Ultimate Spy by H. Keith Melton
The Real Spy’s Guide to Becoming a Spy by Peter Ernest
Top Secret by Paul Janeczko
Codes and Ciphers by Adrian Gilbert
Mysterious Messages by Gary Blackwood
How to be an International Spy by Lonely Planet Kids
Daring Disguises 101 by the International Spy Museum
Investigating a Crime Scene by Tamra B. Orr
Detective Science by Jim Weise
A to Z Mysteries - a cute easy reader chapter book
Phoebe the Spy by Judith Berry Griffin
The Bumbletown Detectives
The Usborne Detective's Handbook
Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales - One Dead Spy
World War II Spies (An Interactive History Adventure) by Michael Burgan
Stealing Nazi Secrets in World War II (An Interactive History Adventure) by Elizabeth Raum
You Wouldn't Want to be a Secret Agent During World War II by John Malam
Code Cracking for Kids (Secret Communications Throughout History) by Jean Daigneau
The Eye That Never Sleeps (a picture book on how Detective Pinkerton saved President Lincoln) by Marissa Moss
Revolutionary War Spies by Michael E. Goodman
We read aloud: The Faithful Spy by John Hendrix (a true story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Books for me (would be appropriate for older learners)
George Washintgon's Secret Six by Brian Kilmeade
Lincoln's Spymaster by Samantha Seiple
And lastly we loved filling out our Mad Libs Spy Version book