School Days
This classroom tool used to be filled with chalk; now it’s often replaced by whiteboards or smartboards.
What is a blackboard ?
You’d study planets, stars, and galaxies in this science class.
What is astronomy?
This percussion instrument is struck with sticks and comes in many types, like snare or bass.
What is a drum?
This river is the longest in the world.
What is the Nile?
In the U.S., this grade level typically marks the start of formal education.
What is kindergarten?
This subject includes addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
What is math?
This stringed instrument has four strings and is often played with a bow in orchestras.
What is a violin?
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This branch of math deals with shapes, angles, and theorems like the Pythagorean.
What is geometry?
This social studies subject explores past events and people.
What is history?
A grand or upright one of these uses hammers and strings to produce sound.
What is a piano?
This line, located at 0 degrees latitude, divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This standardized test, often taken in high school, includes sections on reading, writing, and math, and is used for college admissions in the U.S.
What is the SAT?
In biology, this process allows plants to turn sunlight into energy.
What is photosynthesis?
This brass instrument uses a slide instead of valves to change pitch.
What is a trombone?
This country has the largest population in the world.
What is India?
This federal U.S. law, originally passed in 1975, ensures that students with disabilities receive a free appropriate public education tailored to their individual needs.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
This branch of mathematics explores patterns, functions, and abstract reasoning using symbols and letters to represent numbers.
What is algebra?
This keyboard instrument, often found in churches, produces sound by air passing through pipes
What is an organ?
This African country, formerly known as Abyssinia, is the only one on the continent that was never formally colonized.
What is Ethiopia?