School Days
Students receive this at the end of the year showing their grades.
What is a report card?
Before whiteboards, teachers wrote on this kind of board.
What is a chalkboard?
This period of the school day is when students have a meal.
What is lunch time?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This yellow vehicle took many children to school each day.
What is a school bus?
This subject teaches students about past events and famous people.
What is history?
This school supply is used to measure angles.
What is a protractor?
This school activity gives students time to play outside.
What is recess?
This planet is known as the red planet.
What is Mars?
This container is what students brought from home, carrying a sandwich and a drink.
What is a lunchbox?
This ceremony celebrates students who complete elementary and high school.
What is graduation?
This classroom item usually displayed countries, oceans, and continents.
What is a globe?
This school group performs music with instruments like trumpets, clarinets, and drums.
What is the school band/marching band?
This is the capital city of Canada.
What is Ottawa?
These small cards with questions and answers were often used to study spelling words and facts.
What are flashcards?
This machine was used before computers to type papers.
What is a typewriter?
This machine made copies of worksheets before photocopiers became common.
What is a mimeograph?
This book contains photographs and memories of the school year.
What is a yearbook?
The gas that humans need to breathe to survive.
What is oxygen?
Students often sharpened this item before taking a test.
What is a pencil?
This writing style was taught, using connected letters.
What is cursive?
What is a pointer?
A student that is often chosen to give a speech at graduation because they earned the highest grade.
What is a valedictorian?
The author of Romeo and Juliet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This was the most common method of finding information before the internet in school libraries.
What is the card catalog?