IS Sherlock Holmes
Someone who studies the past to try to understand why people act the way they do and why society is the way it is.
What is a historian?
Whitby is named after a ____ in England
What is an Abbey?
A skull from an early human found in Africa
What is a fossil and a primary source?
22
What is the number of 6th graders this year?
Mr. Greene's favorite football team
What is the NY Giants?
Something created by someone who experienced an event firsthand.
What is a primary source?
1958
What is the year Whitby opened?
A biography written by Martha Fredericks about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
What is a secondary source?
2027
What is the year this year's 6th graders will graduate from high school?
This is Mr. Greene's ___th year teaching at Whitby.
What is 10th?
When Timmy retrieved his soccer ball that had rolled under the shed, he found an old gun that turned out to be from the Civil War. This is an example of the role that ____ plays in history.
What is luck?
Number of Montessori schools in the US when Whitby opened.
What is ZERO?
A leg bone from a camel carved into a spear.
What is an artifact and a primary source?
6th grade boy with the most letters in his name--first and last combined-- (according to Veracross).
Who is Nicholas Shklovsky?
Number of Mr. Greene's children who have attended Whitby.
What is 2?
The three categories of primary sources.
What are Documents, Audio/Visual and Physical (Fossils and Artifacts).
Caedmon, the official name of the PAC, was named for a famous what? Is it King, General, Poet, Musician, Athlete or Movie Star?
What is Poet?
An encyclopedia showing a photograph of the original pen Thomas Jefferson used to write the Declaration of Independence.
What is an artifact, primary source and secondary source?
The two 6th grade girls with the most letters in their name (first and last combined) according to Veracross.
Who are Zeeya and Hailey?
Number of countries Mr. Greene has lived in. Is it 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6?
What is 5--US, Canada, UK, China and Thailand?
The 3 different things that change our ideas about what actually may have happened in the past.
What is new historians who bring new perspectives, newly found sources and new technology to find and analyze sources?
Whitby, England is famous for inspiring the creation of which very well-known horror character of both books and movies?
Who is Dracula?
A history textbook which has a photograph of an imprint of a leaf in a stone and another photograph of a piece of art where the stone was used with ink to make a print.
Secondary, primary, fossil, artifact.
Names of 4 students--first and last alphabetically by first name and first and last alphabetically by last name.
Who are Anya, Zeeyah, Backx and Yavonditte.
Number of countries Mr. Greene has visited. Is it 7, 16, 24, 33, 42 or 71?
What is 42?