Preface Introduction 1. What is a Springboard? Why Springboards Work Springboards to Best Professional Practice Current Educational Research as a Springboard 2. How to Use This Book A Tsunami of New Standards PowerVerbs: A Key to New Library Standards PowerVerbs: Inquiry and All the Standards Learning to Learn: Focus Questions Supporting Inquiry-Based Learning A Note on Vocabulary Acquisition--Carpe Diem! 3. Introduction to Inquiry-Based Learning Understanding the Basics of Inquiry Learning! Driven by a BIG Question Wonder--Understanding and Ideas Investigate--Understanding and Ideas Synthesis--Understanding and Ideas Express--Understanding and Ideas Understanding the Basics of Assessment 4. Lesson Plans for Early Elementary Grades A Sense of Adventure A Vanishing Marsupial? Choosing Kindness A Circumnavigating Hen? Conflicts! Fact or Opinion? Friends Garden Power Gravity Makes Us Fall Get a Growth Mindset Imagination! Ordinary People Change the World Pets Teach Science Rules, Rules, Rules Scarcity and Economic Decisions Snowflakes, Snowdays, and Symmetry Stop That Yawn! (Involuntary Reactions) Tiny, Perfect Things 5. Lesson Plans for Middle Elementary Grades Animal Adaptations for Survival Animal Poetry Beneath My Feet Extreme Landforms--The Birth of Extreme Sports! Kids Step Up and Save the Day! Hello Brain! Imagination and Invention! Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors versus Statistics Pirate Plunder: Fact or Fiction Stegothesaurus Trash or Treasure? Water in Disguise Where in the World is Your School? Resilience = We Bounce Back! WOOOSH!--Supersoaker Secrets 6. Lesson Plans for Upper Elementary Grades or Talented and Gifted Hurricanes Blow Your House Down Sports: Science in Action! Artificial Intelligence Bee Informed! Burgers or Bugs? Cities = Heat Islands Country Cuisines: How Are You Dining Tonight? Meaningful Mess: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch How to Become a . Taking a Stand The Dust Bowl Trust but Verify What if (Your Animal) Disappeared? Fake Food Fix (Talented and Gifted) UN Sustainable Global Goals (Talented and Gifted) Climate Connections (Talented and Gifted) Refugee Children (Talented and Gifted) Appendix A: Early Elementary Lessons Booklist Appendix B: Middle Elementary Lessons Booklist Appendix C: Upper Grades Lessons Booklist and Toolkit Appendix D: Lesson Handout Masters for Copying Appendix E: Synthesis Handouts Copyright Acknowledgments Works Cited Index.