Cornell Notes
True or False: Students can modify their Cornell Notes template to meet their own preferences.
True
In the Beginning contains a collection of these?
Creation stories/myths
It is believed that our universe it approximately this old?
13.8 billion years
He was the 6th president of the United States?
JQA
Formerly the home of Science, this newly renovated building will now house History and English?
Minis
This is the name for the left-hand column that can include questions and vocabulary?
Cue
This book, by Yuval Noah Harari, explores the peculiar characteristics of our human species?
Sapiens
What role does Jupiter play in the continued existence of earth?
Its gravity field takes in asteroids that otherwise might hit Earth
The United States entered World War I in this year?
1917
SCDS was founded in which year?
1955 (1905)
What should students include at the end of each note-taking session? This is done at the bottom of the page.
Summary
You will read a book titled "A History of the World in XXX Objects." How many objects will the book cover?
100
Big History attempts to unify these two disciplines in order to better understand the human past?
History and Science
Women gained the right to vote with this Constitutional amendment?
19
This term refers to "time" in a historical sense?
Temporal
True or False: Cornell Notes can ONLY be used for lectures and text-based readings?
False. Cornell Notes can be used for all teaching/learning media.
Where do students check to see what readings are assigned for homework?
Blackbaud
These are critical turning points when the right ingredients emerged under the right conditions to create more complexity? It is also the name that Big History uses for each of its units.
Threshold
This is the name historians use to describe the period immediately following the Civil War when the government attempted to reconcile differences between Northern and Southern states?
Reconstruction
These two animals are depicted on the $1 bill.
Eagle and Spider (or owl?)
Cornell University, from where Cornell notes derive, is located in which U.S. state?
Ithaca, New York
She is the author of In the Beginning?
Virginia Hamilton
How was the moon created?
From a massive asteroid the size of Mars that hit Earth
The Bay of Pigs invasion involved a U.S.-assisted attack on which country's government?
Cuba
These are the two 9th-grade History teachers?
Ms. Myers and Mr. Crenshaw