World Issues
Classroom Chaos
Your Teacher
Modern History
Food
100
What are we currently studying in World Issues?
Climate change
100
What website do we normally use to receive assignments?
Google Classroom
100
What unusual activity does your teacher do on weekends?
Flying
100
What year did WWII end?
1945
100
What Japanese term refers to the savory "fifth taste"?
Umami
200
How many major "Big Ideas" does our World Issues course use?
Four
200
What type of question often starts our class and requires actual thinking?
Warm-up / CTQ
200
What license did your teacher earn this summer?
Private Pilot
200
What event in 1914 triggered World War I?
Franz Ferdinand's assassination
200
Where do potatoes originate from? (continent)
South America
300
Which Big Idea focuses most directly on relationships between countries, groups, and societies?
Interdependence
300
What does "DOK" stand for?
Depth of Knowledge
300
In what U.S. city did your teacher complete much of his flight training?
Reno
300
What 1919 treaty formally ended the war between Germany and the Allies?
Treaty of Versailles
300
What chemical compound is primarily responsible for the burning sensation caused by chili peppers?
capsaicin
400
Name all four World Issues Big Ideas.
Humanity / Global Information / Interdependence / Geopolitics
400
Your group disagrees completely but must reach one final answer. What skill are you being forced to practice?
Collaboration
400
Before becoming a private pilot, what aviation milestone did your teacher have to complete alone?
10 hours of Cross-country solo flights
400
What does this painting represent?
The Storming of the Bastille, during the French Revolution
400
What spice gives many Indian curries and dishes their distinctive yellow color and flavor?
Turmeric
500
Which Big Idea asks us to critically evaluate where our information comes from?
Global Information
500
Your teacher asks a question with no single correct answer and then asks "why?" What skill is probably being assessed?
Critical Thinking
500
What type of airplanes is your teacher allowed to fly?
Airplane, Single-Engine, Land
500
What 1991 event formally marked the end of the Soviet Union?
USSR dissolution
500
What extremely expensive spice comes from the stigma of a flower and must be harvested largely by hand?
Saffron