Science
This simple machine uses a rigid bar that pivots around or on a fixed point called a fulcrum.
What is a lever?
A town has a population written in standard form as 400,000 + 3,000 + 700 + 8. This is how you write that number on a sign.
What is 403,708?
This is Roz's full name and identification number when she is first activated on the island.
What is ROZZUM unit 7134?
This person is the leader of a city or municipality.
What is a mayor?
Instead of saying "I want to be good at math," a SMART goal should state exactly what you want to achieve, like "I want to learn my 7 times tables." This represents the S in SMART.
What is Specific?
A ramp used to roll heavy boxes up into a moving truck is an example of this simple machine.
What is an inclined plane?
In the number 258,674 this is the specific place value of the digit 8.
What is the thousands place?
Roz watches a tiny crab climb a steep cliff and copies its movements to figure out this important skill.
What is climbing?
This person is the leader of a province.
What is a premier?
This gym game has two teams of students racing to complete a row of 3 bean bags in hula-hoops before the other team.
What is tic-tac-toe?
This simple machine is made of two inclined planes placed back-to-back and is used to split things apart, like an axe cutting wood.
What is a wedge?
If a piece of cedar wood is 4197 centimetres long, this is its length when rounded to the nearest hundreds.
What is 4200 centimetres?
Roz uses mud, grass, and flowers to blend into her surroundings so the animals won't notice her. This action matches a vocabulary word that means "to disguise or hide."
What is camouflage?
This position is the political leader of Canada.
What is a prime minister?
Every good goal needs a deadline or a target date so you don't put it off forever. This represents the T in SMART.
What is Time-bound (or Timely)?
An open jar lid, a spiral staircase, and a metal bolt are all everyday examples of this simple machine.
What is a screw?
This is the expanded form of 712,045
What is 700,000 + 10,000 + 2,000 + 40 + 5?
Pinktail the opossum teaches Roz that looking dead or acting helpless can be a great way to survive a predator attack. The book uses this 8-letter vocabulary word to describe an animal that is easily frightened or nervous.
What is skittish?
This is the city that Terry Fox started his run in.
To create a more powerful throw, this must also move forward at the same time as your arm.
What is your opposite leg?
A screw is actually just this other simple machine wrapped around a central cylinder or post.
What is an inclined plane?
A pattern rule states: "Start at 4 and add 7 each time." This is the 5th number in that sequence.
What is 32? (Sequence: 4, 11, 18, 25, 32)
This tragic event in Chapter 24 leaves Roz with an orphaned goose egg to take care of.
What is a rockslide (or the accident on the cliff)?
This day honors the 150,000+ First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children who were forcibly taken from their families and placed into the Canadian residential school system, remembers those who never returned home, and supports residential school Survivors and their families
What is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation?
Setting a goal to "jump all the way to the moon by tomorrow" breaks these two letters of the SMART acronym, because your goal must be realistic and possible to do.
What are Achievable (or Attainable) and Realistic (or Relevant)?