Assorted Wonders

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Civil Rights

What Is a Civil Right?

Who Was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?

Who Was Jackie Robinson?

Why Are People All Different Colors?

What Does It Mean to Stand for Something?

What Was the Sit-In Movement?

Figurative Language

What is a Metaphor?

Which Side Is the Wrong Side of the Bed?

Why Do People Say "A Dime A Dozen"?

Can You Fly By the Seat of Your Pants?

Have You Ever Had a Frog in Your Throat?

Why Do People Say "Under the Weather"?

Have You Ever Lost Your Marbles?

Have You Ever Been on a Wild Goose Chase?

 Are You Worth Your Salt?

Do You Try to Keep Up with the Joneses?

How Do You Jump on the Bandwagon?

Why Do People Say "A Stitch in Time Saves Nine"?

Are You Sly as a Fox?

Did Father Time Have Children?

Who Is Uncle Sam?

How Do You Turn Over a New Leaf?

Why Does Time Fly When You're Having Fun?

Do Cats Really Have Nine Lives?

Do Ostriches Really Bury Their Heads in the Sand?

Reading

How Can You Become a Better Reader?

Why Does Reading Make You Sleepy?

Are You a Bookworm?

How Are Pop-Up Books Made?

Do You Judge a Book by Its Cover?

What Is a Tunnel Book?

How Are Books Made?

Why Don't All Books Have Pictures?

What Can You Discover at the Library?

Civil War

What Was the Underground Railroad?

What Was the Gettysburg Address?

Genres

What Is a Genre?

When Does Nonfiction Become Fiction?

What's Your Favorite Fable?

What Is a Biography?

Why Do They Call It a "Tall Tale"?

Go West!

How Was the St. Louis Arch Built?

What is a Chuckwagon?

Mathematics

Who Invented Math?

How Can Math Help You Cook?

What Is a Prime Number?

What Is Pi?

What Is a Mobius Strip?

What Is Infinity?

How Many Is a Googol?

Do You Sudoku?

Why Do Measurements Matter?

Who Invented Time?

How Many Seconds Are In a Year?

How Many Degrees Are In a Circle?

Who Invented Money?

How Much Does It Cost to Own a Horse?

How Do You Use an Abacus?

How Does a Calculator Work?

Writing

Can a Word Be Both a Noun and a Verb?

How Do You Write a TV Script?

Why Are There Uppercase and Lowercase Letters?

Corps of Discovery

What Was the Lewis and Clark Expedition?

How Does a Compass Work?

Geology

What Is Fool's Gold?

Why Is Sand Scratchy?

Why Are Brick Houses So Strong?

How Hot Is Lava?

What Is a Volcano?

Where Do Diamonds Come From?

How Do you Know if a Diamond is Real or Fake?

What Is Obsidian?

How Is Lava Created?

How Do Rocks Get Their Colors?

Do You Prefer Carats or Karats?

Motion and Design

How Does an Engine Work?

Why Do You Change the Oil in Cars?

How Do You Stretch a Limo?

Do All Taxis Have Four Wheels?

Do All Trains Run Above Ground?

What Is Four-Wheel Drive?

What Is a Muscle Car?

How Do You Build a Road?

Are Monster Trucks Scary?

Why Are School Buses Yellow?

How Fast Can a Tank Move?

Why Aren't Seat Belts Required on School Buses?

What Will you Drive When You Grow Up?

What Is the Fastest Train?

How Do Roller Coasters Work?

Who Invented the Automobile?

Electric Circuits

Can You Make Electricity in Water?

Who Discovered Electricity?

Are Eels Really Electric?

Do Birds Get Shocked When They Sit on Wires?

What Is Static Electricity?

What Happens When Lightning Strikes a Tree?

What Is a Wind Farm?

Why Are Batteries Different Sizes?

What Makes a Light Bulb Light Up?

What Causes Lightning?

What Are LEDs?

How Do Solar Lights Work?

What Is a Waterwheel?

Indians in Missouri

What Does It Mean to Be a Native American?

What Is a Wigwam?

How Do Dreamcatchers Catch Dreams?

What Is a Totem Pole?

Where Do the Buffalo Roam?

Poetry

What Is a Poetry Slam?

What Is an Acrostic Poem?

What Is a Haiku?

What Is a Sonnet?

What Is a Limerick?

Do People Still Write Poetry?

Speleology

How Cool Are Caves?

Why Do Bats Sleep Upside Down?

What Is a Sinkhole?

Do Bats Need Maps?