Science
This type of animal has no backbone.
What is an invertebrate?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
In ELA, you use this to end a sentence. In Math, you use this to separate whole numbers from tenths.
What is a period/decimal point?
DAILY DOUBLE!
This undead creature has the same amount of energy as my class on a Monday morning after a vacation.
This type of art involves gluing different pictures or patterns together to make one complete picture.
What is a collage?
This word for the basic building blocks of life got its name because one scientist thought it looked like a small room that a monk (or prisoner!) might live in.
What is a cell?
DAILY DOUBLE!
Maybe you love him, maybe you hate him, but there's no doubt that this European explorer changed the world when sailed west in 1492.
Spell it!
The GCF of 12 and 18 is 6. Spell the "F" in GCF.
What is F-A-C-T-O-R?
No, it's not a black and white striped horse. It's one of these.
What is a zebra?
These big guys might not look athletic, but they're in great shape, and you don't want to get one mad if you're visiting Japan.
What is a sumo wrestler?
This word refers to the number of people living in a place as well as the number organisms that can live and breed in a given geographic area.
What is population?
This Greek king rolled over a huge Asian empire in the 4th century B.C. Was he really great? Well, that's a matter of opinion.
Who is Alexander the Great?
In ELA, it means you're not nice. In Math it means that you're just average.
What is mean?
Pilots use this fancy word to talk about how high they are.
What is altitude?
Yards, feet, and inches! Most sports are measured in these. But if you run track, this is the unit of measurement that you will need to worry about.
What is a meter?
When two tectonic plates collide and the ground shakes, you might feel one of these.
What is an earthquake?
This Greek philosopher chased the truth, even when it got him in trouble. He was put to death in 399 B.C., but he gave his name to seminars that ELA teachers seem to love.
Who is Socrates?
Spell one of the following words differently for a math word that sounds exactly the same:
"You can add it all up, but only get some."
What is sum?
Slow down! If you speed back and forth like this, you're going to have an accident.
What is zigzag (zig zag)?
With these three primary colors, you can make any other color that you want.
What are red, yellow, and blue?
Rhyme it! The "answer" to the world's garbage problem is a pollution _______.
What is solution?
This ancient Egyptian queen was a good leader, and the men of Rome just couldn't stay away. But she and her lovers had a bad habit of dying early.
Who is Cleopatra?
Do you remember your parts of speech? This is the product when you multiply the number of letters in an "action word" with the number of letters in a "person, place, or thing."
What is 16?
4 (verb) x 4 (noun) = 16
This is the collection of letters that makes up a language.
What is an alphabet?
It's a place to work out and play sports. It's also a dance that people force you to do at parties. Don't ask why!
What is Y.M.C.A.?