School Supplies
What are pencils?
This ancient civilization developed famous schools of philosophy, including Plato's Academy
What is Ancient Greece?
This holiday often marks the end of summer break in the US
What is Labor Day?
The branch of mathematics focused on shapes, angles, and measurements
What is geometry?
The author of Romeo and Juliet
Who is William Shakespeare?
This tool is used to measure length
What is a ruler?
This country is known for having schools where students remove their shoes before entering classrooms
What is Japan?
In the US, do men or women have more college degrees?
Women
The most popular subject to teach in high school
What is English?
The smallest unit of matter that still keeps the properties of an element
What is an atom?
What is a microscope?
The location of the elementary school at the highest altitude in the world
What is Tibet?
This famous educational institute, located in Cambridge, MA and founded in 1636, is the oldest university in the US
What is Harvard University?
The name of the standardized test that is used for college admissions in the US
What is the SAT (Scholastic Assessment Test) or ACT (American College Testing)?
The largest planet in our solar system
What is Jupiter?
The material that blackboards are made out of
What is slate?
The month in which summer vacation starts in Chile
What is December?
The era in US history when high schools were created
What is the Depression?
The modern school subject that is a combination of history, economics, and civics
What is social studies?
The process in which water changes from liquid to gas
What is evaporation?
The school supply that comes in "wide ruled" and "college ruled"
What is lined paper?
The country that boasts the world's oldest high school
What is China?
The Boston Latin School was the first ____ in the US
What is public school?
The archaic course that taught finances, nutrition and food preparation, textiles and apparel, and housing and interior design
What is home economics?
The process that plants use to turn sunlight into energy
What is photosynthesis?