According to the National Research Council, 1996, p. 105 All students should have the opportunity to use scientific inquiry and develop the ability to think and act in ways associated with inquiry, including asking question, planning and conducting investigations, using appropriate tools and techniques to gather data, thinking critically and logically about relationships between evidence and explanations, constructing and analyzing alternative explanations, and communicating scientific arguments. The following set of worksheets, inquiry labs, and websites are an attempt to develop a construct that aids 6th grade earth science students in developing the above skills and provide them with a venue for practicing those skills. The project begins with inquiry labs, weaves in the construct for a science fair project and ends with assessments that document growth in students abilities to ask meaningful questions, demonstrate understanding through proper use of tools, self evaluate their own growth in thinking and dig deeper into evidence provided.