School Supplies
You write with this and sharpen it when it's dull.
What is the best way to remove germs from your hands?
Handwashing
The metal box often used to carry lunch, sometimes with cartoon art.
Lunchbox
The part of the brain responsible for memory?
Hippocampus
The board game where players try to get through college and start a family and buy a house.
The Game of LIfe
You use this to carry your books and supplies to school.
Backpack
Doctor's recommend washing hands for at least this many seconds.
20
Before computers, students often used this machine to type up assignments or reports.
Typewriter
A 7 letter word that means a word spelled the same backwards.
Palindrome
This refers to graduating with the highest academic rank.
Valedictorian
These are sticky and great for quick notes or reminders.
Sticky notes
What should you use if soap or water isn't available?
This writing exercise involved repetitive practice of cursive letters, often in lined notebooks.
Penmanship
This type of puzzle often found in newspapers improves logic skills.
Crossword
The country where the pencil was first mass produced.
Germany
You need this tool during geometry to draw a circle.
Compass
How many hours of sleep should you aim to get every night for optimal brain health?
7-8
This tool helped students do math before calculators.
Slide rule
Many students watched this educational TV show that launched in 1969.
Sesame Street
The first Ivy League University founded in 1636.
Harvard University
You need this tool when measure an angle.
Protractor
This vitamin is especially important for vision and immune function.
Vitamin A
Name the classroom item- now mostly obsolete- that combined a map, pointer, and a squeaky arm.
Chalkboard
The US Supreme Court decision that desegregated public schools.
Brown vs. Board of Education
The mathematical constant approximately equal to 3.14159
pi