Ms. Castle
Civics Projects
Questions of the Day
Finances/Econ
Civics Trivia
100
This is Ms. Castle's favorite animal.
What are penguins?
100
During the Executive Branch lessons, we contacted our representatives by writing and sending these.
What are advocacy letters?
100
This is a very zoomed-in image of a popular fast food restaurant's french fries.
What is Chick-fil-A?
100
This is what everyone wanted to give up for adoption after the Finance Park field trip.
What is their assigned child/children?
100
These are the three branches of the United States government we discussed in detail during Units 3, 4, and 5.
What is the Legislative Branch, the Executive Branch, and the Judicial Branch?
200
This is where Ms. Castle attended college.
What is George Mason University?
200
During our TikTok Mock Trial, witnesses did this: the vocabulary word for taking the stand, sharing a statement, and answering questions from attorneys.
What is testify?
200
Joke: This is the way that a bee brushes its hair.
What is with a honeycomb?
200
The interaction of these two concepts in economics determines the prices of goods and services.
What are supply and demand?
200
This is the name for the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
300
This is Ms. Castle's favorite part of being a teacher.
What is being with her students and getting to know them?
300
During our economics project, we practiced this POG skill by building our inventions out of recycled materials.
What is ethical and global citizen?
300
This is the collective name for a group of crows.
What is a murder?
300
These are the two types of cards you can get to manage your finances as an adult that we discussed during the Finance Park unit.
What are debit and credit cards?
300
This is the name for the list of constitutional protections that are guaranteed to all Americans. One example is the right to a trial by jury.
What is due process?
400
This is how many years (including this year) that Ms. Castle has been teaching.
What is 1 full year?
400
During our mock campaign manager project, each student was assigned this: a word for a belief system. We used this word in the context of political beliefs by drawing and labeling the political spectrum.
What is ideology?
400
This is how much it costs the U.S. to print a $1 bill. (answer is in cents)
What is 5.6 cents?
400
This is the most common economic system in the world today. The United States has this system.
What is a mixed economic system?
400
This is the name of the court case that established the principle of judicial review. It involved a certain individual not being given their commission!
What is Marbury v. Madison?
500
This is the city/region where Ms. Castle is originally from.
What is Jamestown, New York? or What is upstate New York?
500
During Unit 3 (founding documents) you had the option to complete an extra credit assignment where you worked to get 3 signatures from people around the school. This assignment was called...
What is the school amendment activity?
500
This is a very zoomed-in picture of a common food. This was from the beginning of the year.
What is a pumpkin?
500
While building our inventions for the economics project, you were required to track your finances and do this: a way to make sure that you did not go into debt.
What is balancing your budget?
500
These 5 freedoms are written in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
What are the freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press, freedom to petition the government, and the freedom of speech?