Inventors and Inventions
Grammar & Morphology
Parts of Speech
Geology
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Born on February 11th, 1847 this famous inventor owns 1,093 patents, one of which is the lightbulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
Periods, Commas, Question marks, Exclamation marks, and Quotation Marks are all referred to by this designation. (What are they called?).
What is Punctuation?
100
This part of speech describes what a person, place, or thing does or is.
What is a Verb (What are Verbs)?
100
This super-volcano is also a National Park is located directly above the largest hotspot in North America, making it home to many hot-springs and geysers. The super.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
100
This is the name of the online program that LLA uses to track and reward students for reading at home.
What is Road to Success?
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Invented in China in the year 105 A.D., this invention allowed records and communications to be made and transported more easily.
What is Paper?
200
Like Prefixes, these are syllables added to a word to change it's meaning. Unlike Prefixes though, these are added to the END of the word.
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Words that describe nouns like "smelly," "large," and "blue" are all these.
What are Adjectives?
200
Similar to Geology, this is the study of Earth's surface features (lakes, rivers, islands, continents, states, countries, etc.).
What is Geography?
200
These are the names of the two brothers that get lost in the Unknown in the Cartoon Series Over the Garden Wall.
Who are Greg and Wirt?
300
In the 1930's Ruth Wakefield invented these when she was looking for an ingredient to substitute for Butterscotch Chips (They go best with a glass of milk).
What are Chocolate Chip Cookies?
300
When adding "-es" onto the end of a verb ending in "y" you must first do this to make it "agree" with the subject of the sentence.
What is - Change the "y" to and "i?"
300
These are the two types of nouns the first is not capitalized and the second must ALWAYS be capitalized.
What are Common and Proper Nouns?
300
This the underground part of a volcano where melted rock collects and builds pressure, leading up to an eruption.
What is a Magma Chamber?
300
This is the next holiday of the school year, February 21st. We will be out Monday (the 21st) and Tuesday (22nd) of that week.
What is president's day?
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Known respectfully for inventing Scuba Diving, Radio Transmitters, and Peanut Butter: these three inventors were the three most likeable judges on our Eureka! Student Inventors game show last unit.
Who are Jacques Cousteau, Hedy Lamar, and George Washington Carver?
400
This term describes writings that are written from the perspective of the main character.
What is First-Person?
400
Just as adjectives describe nouns these words (like "quickly" and "slowly") describe verbs.
What are Adverbs?
400
These are the two processes by which rocks are broken down tiny piece by tiny piece so that they eventually end up as grains of sand.
What are Weathering and Erosion?
400
These are the four things Mr. Enright and Ms. Yaneli reward you with tickets for when we are in the hall on our bathroom break.
What are Standing Head Behind Head/Facing Forward, Staying Off the Wall, Being Silent, Folding Your Arms?
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These are the names of the Simple Machines which are considered the simplest mechanisms by which change the direction or magnitude of a force. In general, they can be defined as the simplest mechanisms that use mechanical advantage to multiply force.
What are the Pulley, the Lever, the Wheel and Axle, the Wedge, the Inclined Plane, and the Screw?
500
The verbs "am," "is," and "are," are all forms of this root verb.
What is the verb "To Be?"
500
These words replace nouns, they are shorter and non-specific.
What is a Pronoun?
500
Also the name of the fourth Ice Age movie, this is the theory that all of Earth's land masses were all once (in the age of the dinosaurs) part of a single continent called Pangea.
What is Continental Drift?
500
This was the theme of our Boosterthon fun run near the beginning of the year.
What is Sports City Worldwide?