SENSORY DETAILS
WRITING A PARAGRAPH
Miscellaneous
MATH AND SCIENCE
CURRENT EVENTS
HISTORY
100

No doubt about it, colors affect this sense more than you know.

Sight

100

Every paragraph has one of these sentences. The others support it.

Topic Sentence

100

“We‘re gonna need a bigger boat.”  The biggest line in this movie was actually ad-libbed, meaning the voice was recorded AFTER filming.

JAWS

100

A method used by reputable scientists to draw conclusions through experimentation.

The Scientific Method

100

These three planets are clearly visible in the Florida night sky, provided there are no clouds around.

Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn

100

A debate rages on, after which Columbus Day may be changed to this arguably “more appropriate” observation.

Indigenous People’s Day

200

Onomatopoeia is most likely to affect this sense more. 

Hearing

200

Each paragraph is about only one of these.

Subject/Idea

200

While the Munchkin actors received $50 a week—which was a good wage at the time—this well known animal actor earned $125 a week. Not in Kansas anymore?

Toto

200

3000 = 3 X 10is an example of this.

Scientific Notation

200

Killer Whales are ramming boats in the waters of these two countries.

Spain and Portugal

200

This 87-year-old, who was appointed to the nation's highest court by President Bill Clinton in 1993, was the longest sitting Supreme Court Justice. She was also only the second woman, after Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, to serve in the position. She died just last month.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

300

You punch someone to make them experience this sense.

Feeling/Touch

300

Each paragraph should start with this. Don’t do it to your car.

Indent

300

It’s the name of the city where buddies Mike and Sully live, go to work, and get into trouble because of a young human girl.  BOO!

Monstropolis

300

Scientific notation gives “power” to these types of numbers, often telling us how many places to move the decimal.

Exponents

300

This little guy, named Magawa, but now called THIS, received a Gold Medal for his service in detecting 39 land mines and 28 unexploded items in Cambodia

“HeroRat”

300

Because of the date, in 2020 we celebrate the 19th anniversary of a tragic terrorist attack that killed 2977 people and forced a US President to declare war on Islamic Extremists.

9/11

400

By wearing out-of-style clothing, you might have NONE of this.  But we’re talking about the senses, man.  Think McDonald’s.

Taste

400

5 sentences make up this. Then, we need 5 of these to make an essay with 3 claims.

Paragraph

400

Basketball, although largely an American game, the inventor—Dr. James Naismith—was born in this country.  Consequently, the first NBA game was played there.

Canada

400

The Scientific Method asks us to makes these ‘inferences’ based on available facts, but before experimentation.  These are also called this.

Hypothesis

400

This is the name of the exo-planet that orbits its sun in just 3.14 days.  That means that one year on that planet is 3.14 days long.

Pi-Planet

400

Having turned the war around in 1781, this war came to a “Successful End” after the 21-day siege of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown.

The American Revolutionary War

500

Go for a walk through a farm and this sense is bound to be activated by multiple things, especially in the barn.

Smell

500

To move from one idea to another, we need to include these types of words to increase the flow of our writing.

Transitions

500

Developed in the 1960’s, this TV Show was a metaphor for the civil rights movement, war, racism, and the Human Condition.

Star Trek

500

Following the Scientific Method, when a doctor injects a patient with an experimental drug, he/she may spend hours, days, or even weeks making these about the patient’s reaction.

Observations

500

These adorable robots are restocking shelves in Japan soon.  RE-STOCKING, meaning they were there before.  They’re shaped like these “Outback” Animals.

Kangaroos

500

On October 9, 1949, this well renowned law school started admitting women.

Harvard Law School

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