Mac, Information Detective, in...The Curious Kids and Why Dolphins Visit Curiosity Creek: A Storybook Approach to Introducing Research Skills and its accompanying educators' guide, deals with teaching the inquiry process to young learners (K-3). Mac, Information Detective, introduces the ending stage of the research process in which students evaluate their information and their inquiry process and decide how to present their findings to others. Lessons are all coordinated to AASL information literacy standards and national content area standards as applicable in language arts and science. The read aloud illustrated picture book is accompanied by an educator's guide offering lesson plans and many reproducible worksheets for student use. Interactive pages placed throughout the read aloud picture books help teachers and librarians pace their reading and introduce activities that teach the ending stage of the inquiry process. A vocabulary list is included to aide in student comprehension. Grades K-3.

The Curious Kids Digging for Answers: A Storybook Approach to Introducing Research Skills and its accompanying Educators' Guide, is the second in a set of three dealing with teaching the inquiry process to young learners (K-3). Mac, Information Detective, introduces the during stage of the research process in which students locate, collect, organize, and interpret information in order to answer their questions. In this case, students have found a rock which is no ordinary rock (it may be a fossil!). They have many questions and they begin digging for answers. Mac introduces them to a new clue: I give you Clue #4: Get ready for . . . Information Exploration! Answers we will find. Information Exploration. I've got FOSSILS on my mind! Accompanying the interactive storybook is an educators' guide featuring lesson plans for reading the story aloud. The guide also includes many extension lesson ideas for teaching the inquiry process, as well as vocabulary words, and reproducible worksheets. Lessons are all coordinated to AASL information literacy standards and national content area standards as applicable in language arts and science. They are framed to be collaboratively taught using the skills and expertise of the classroom teacher and teacher librarian.