Ireland Trivia
The three colors of the Irish flag.
What are green, orange, and white?
This law, also called IDEA, ensures that students with disabilities are provided a free and appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment.
What is The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
A developmental disability characterized by significant deficits in social communication and interaction as well as significant restricted interests and repetitive behaviors that are not primarily caused by an emotional disability.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)?
This approach focuses on schoolwide systems that teach students positive behaviors and reduce negative behaviors through reinforcement.
What are Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports?
The bright colors and increased floral displays in spring are often linked to the presence of this pigment in plants, which absorbs light for photosynthesis and helps plants capture the energy of the sun during early growth.
What is chlorophyll?
An Irish celebrity.
Who is Hozier, Liam Neeson, The Cranberries, Colin Ferrell, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Saoirse Ronan, Jack Gleeson, Michelle Fairley, Fiona Shaw, Michael Gambon...
This law passed in 1990 prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including schools, transportation, and employment.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
The criteria for this disability are significantly subaverage academic skills in reading, writing, math, oral expression, or listening comprehension, which have an adverse effect on the student's educational performance.
HINT: CAN NOT BE CAUSED BY AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
What is Specific Learning Disability/Learning Disorder?
This plan is developed for students who display challenging behaviors and includes specific strategies to address and reduce those behaviors.
What is a Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP)?
This process occurs in plants in spring when roots take up water and minerals from the soil, which then travel upward through the plant via the xylem to support new growth and leaf development.
What is transpiration?
The shamrock, a popular St. Patrick's Day symbol, has three leaves that symbolize this.
What is The Holy Trinity OR love, faith, and hope.
This part of IDEA refers to speech therapy, counseling, transportation, or other accommodations for students to benefit from their special education program when necessary.
What are "related services"?
Causes for this category of disability include: open/penetrating head injury, closed head injury, deceleration injury, chemical/toxic disorder, hypoxia, tumors, infection, and stroke.
What is Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)?
This type of reinforcement involves providing a reward when the desired behavior occurs, in order to increase the likelihood of the behavior happening again.
What is positive reinforcement?
During the spring, many amphibians, such as frogs, undergo this process, in which they transform from aquatic larvae to air-breathing adults. This change includes the development of lungs and the loss of gills.
What is metamorphosis?
Ireland's Great Famine, which lasted from 1845 to 1852, started with a massive destruction of this staple crop.
What is potato?
This principle of IDEA ensures that students with disabilities are not segregated from their peers unless absolutely necessary, promoting integration in general education classrooms.
What is "Least Restrictive Environment" (LRE)?
This disability category can only be diagnosed up until age eight.
What is Developmental Delay?
This is the systematic method of analyzing the antecedents, behaviors, and consequences of a student’s actions to identify triggers and reinforce desirable behaviors.
What is a Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA)?
Many animals, like bears and squirrels, wake from long periods of rest in the spring. This period of activity after months of dormancy is called spring awakening, but what is the term for the state of dormancy itself?
What is hibernation?
Located within the Irish province of Munster, this city in Ireland is also a type of five-line poem that famously follows an AABBA rhyming scheme.
What is Limerick?
Under IDEA, this is the time frame that the IEP must be reviewed and potentially updated for students with disabilities?
What is annually (or more frequently if needed)?
This disability refers to a communication disorder, such as stuttering, impaired articulation (speech sound), language, or voice impairment that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
What is Speech-Language Impairment/Language Disorder?
This intervention strategy is used when students engage in destructive or self-harming behavior and involves teaching them a safer or more appropriate way to express their needs.
This biological phenomenon, occurring in many plants during spring, refers to the production of flowers that attract pollinators like bees, butterflies, and birds. It is often driven by changes in temperature, daylight, and other environmental cues.
What is flowering?