STEP SAVVY
What is the first step in the GIPS process?
Identify Challenges
What company created the first commercially successfully electric car, the Model S?
HINT: It rhymes with BESLA
Tesla
What gas is the biggest contributor to global warming?
HINT: CO2
Carbon Dioxide
Who won the 2024 presidential election?
Donald Trump
What do you breathe?
HINT: Oxygen
Air
What step is the underlying problem written in?
Step 2
What year was the first iPhone released?
2007
What was the international organization founded in 1945 to promote peace and cooperation?
United Nations (UN)
Who built the first successful airplane?
The Wright Brothers
What is the deepest point in Earth's oceans called?
The Mariana Trench
What does KVP stand for?
Key Verb Phrase
What does WWW, which commonly appears at the beginning of internet links stand for?
World Wide Web
What is the polluted ocean on Earth?
Pacific Ocean
Who was the 2nd person in history to set foot on the moon?
Buzz Aldrin
What geometric shape has exactly 20 faces?
HINT: Rhymes with dodecahedron
Icosahedron
What is the stem for step 3?
(who?) will (do what?) by (how will they do this?) so that (step 2 problem is addressed) in (time/place)?
What scientist developed the first practical telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
What is the measure of global human development they combines life expectancy, education, and income?
Human Development Index (HDI)
Who discovered penicillin?
Alexander Fleming
What is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?
Mercury
List all the components of The Action Plan (Step 6).
Connect the plan to the step 2 problem, goal, and future scene
Develop the plan in detail (who, what, where, when, how, and why - suggested 3 paragraphs)
Describe the effectiveness of the plan, naming at least 3 ways in which the step 2 KVP is addressed
Establish humaneness of the plan, naming 3 ways people, animals, and the environment are helped or not harmed by your plan
Name the 1997 IBM computer that defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov.
Deep Blue
What resource is expected to be the most mined mineral by 2050?
Lithium
What is the golden disc on Voyager 1 & 2 that carries sound and images of humanity on Earth called?
The Golden Record
In 1978, a physicist accidentally created a “mirror image” particle that behaves like a normal particle but with reversed charge, leading to the first observed example of antimatter naturally occurring on Earth.
What is this particle called?
HINT: Positron
Positron