Place Value
Problem Solving
Pre Columbian
Early Explorers
Cooperation/conflict
100

This number in standard form:

3+ 0.1 + 0.02 + 0.009

What is 3.129?

100

Skylar bought an onion for $0.30, an oven mitt for $2.50, and a pair of striped socks for $5.20. He arrived at 10:32 A.M. and left at 11:00 A.M.. This is the amount of his change if he paid with a $10.00 bill.

What is $2.00?

100
This is a region that is known for lots of rainfall and an abundance of forest, rivers, and seafood. The Native People here made totem poles and had potlatches.

What is the Pacific Northwest?

100

These are the three main "G"oals of early explorers (and the royalty that sent them).

What are gold, glory, and god?

100

Chief Powhatan received a prophecy that warned of a tribe living in this bay that would be his downfall. 

What is the Chesapeake Bay?

200

This number in word form:

5.2

What is Five and two tenths?

200
Mrs. Dailey is reorganizing her coffee cups. She has them all out on a table. There are 12 rows with 14 cups in each row. This is the total number of coffee cups on the table.

What is 168 coffee cups?

200

This is the region that the book, "A Boy Called Slow" was set in. The Native People valued strong warriors and considered the buffalo an important animal.

What is the Great Plains?

200

This technology helped early explorers know where they were going and where they were.

What is (compass, sextant, chronometer, maps or, astrolabe...)?

200

The Manchineel tree is known for its painful poison that feels like burning. This Gentleman from "Blood on the River" ordered a path cut through the forest to the baths.

Who is Master Wingfield?

300

This number is between 2.8 and 2.9

What is (2.81, 2.82, 2.83, 2.84, 2.85,2.86, 2.87,2.88, or 2.89)?

300

Miss Sofia likes to share her food with her two brothers (Mr. Shadow and William Powell). If she has a bag of food that is 180 lbs. and she evenly shares it between all of them. This is how much should each fuzzy baby get.

What is 60 lbs?

300

This is the region that the Powhatan live in. It has forests, rivers, and fertile soil. It is on the other side of the country from us.

What is the Eastern Woodlands?

300

These two sets of imaginary lines help us know where we are in the world. While one measures horizontally the other measures vertically. 

What is Latitude and Longitude?

300

She is the daughter of Chief Powhatan and played a part in John Smith's ceremony welcoming him into the Powhatan Empire.

Who is Pocahontas?

400

The sum of 34.25 + 0.75

What is 35?

400

The Virginia Company is planning another voyage. 60 people can fit in the 'tween deck. If they have 189 people, this is how many trips it will take to get them all to their destination.

What is 4 trips?

400

These are three empires that thrived in Pre Columbian South America. They built complex structures, used impressive agricultural techniques, and have legends that talk about the importance of the sun.

What are the Maya, the Aztecs, and the Incas?

400

This line divides the planet in half. It is halfway between the North and South Pole. Along this line is typically warmer and lots of delicious coffee grows here.

What is the Equator?

400

This word in Algonquin means, "Welcome, my beloved friend."

What is Wingapo?

500
Of these numbers this is the largest:

0.01  or  0.1 or 0.001

What is 0.1?

500

Someone stole all Mr. Dailey's left shoes! If he originally had 12 pairs of shoes, this is how many shoes the thief stole!

What is 12?

500
We read about these people in the book "Morning Girl". They lived in what we call today the Caribbean. They "Encounter" Christopher Columbus and believed in Zemis.

What are the Taino?

500

This line is where Longitude is 0 degrees. It passes between Greenwich, England. 

What is the Prime Meridian?

500

As the settlers of Jamestown struggle to survive. The Powhatan teach them how to use this method of planting. It uses corn, beans, and squash typically.

What is the three sisters method?

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