Math/ Health
During a learning activity, a teacher has students solving problems involving octopuses (8 legs) and starfish (5 legs). which of the following demonstrates problem solving skills and understanding that some problems may have more than one answer?
A. Two starfish have how many more legs than one Octopus?
B. 5 Octopus are gliding across the ocean floor bed of sand. How man starfish have the same total number of legs as the octopus?
c. Two starfish and one octopus are washed up onto the sand, How many legs are altogether?
D. I saw 40 legs. How many starfish and octopus were there?
D
Children who demonstrate typical language development usually presents with one or two word utterances around what age?
18 to 24 months
Which of the following activities in a pre-k or Kindergarten classroom would provide the best opportunity to generate children's understanding of concepts related to chemistry. Mixing ingredients and baking cookies or blowing on balloons to keep then airborne?
Mixing ingredients and baking cookies
An invasive species hitting the wilderness of PA, which resource should you consult?
Environmental protection agency
Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences focuses primarily on which aspects of education?
The various ways in which children think and learn
What is parallel play? Assume two kids are involved in each: (Throw a ball, run a relay race, mimicking animal voices)? what age range does this occur?
A stage of child development where children play near one another but don't directly interact. usually occurs between age 2 & 3.
The science that focuses on earth and atmospheric properties
Earth science
A teacher utilizes peer tutoring in math where they are paired based on skill levels. They both were able to take turns tutoring one another. what is most likely to be the most important benefit of incorporating this type of peer support into instruction?
Increasing students motivation to learn math content
your student expressed the number twenty-eight as 208, and the number thirty seven as 307, this scholar is struggling with what mathematical concept? What exercise can they benefit from?
place value, writing numerical expressions. they can benefit from practice with rearranging base- 10 blocks and writing out numerals represented.
children alternating their feet inside hula hoops/ old tire, rings, teaches what?
Motor skills
Why is inquiry based instruction the best type of instruction?
Because kids are naturally curious and they naturally ask questions
A first grader is demonstrating difficulty with blending VC and CVC words in printed word lists as it connects to text. They also demonstrates mastery of phonemic blending. What type of intervention would the student benefit most from?
Letter sound correspondence skills
A teacher in 3rd grade can best create a culturally inclusive classroom environment for all students by regularly doing what?
Encourage students to share about their cultures and communities with the class.
Before beginning a unit on nutrition, a teacher sends home a survey to ask about nutritional habits at home. Why would a teacher do this?
To gear their instruction to the specific needs of their scholars and their scholars (students) knowledge levels based on their existing diets.
What is the difference between living organisms and non-living organisms?
living organisms are made up of cells and can perform homeostasis.
Which teaching practice is ideal to be emphasized for a first-grade teacher who wants to promote students' ability to communicate mathematical ideas?
Having students explain their problem-solving strategies orally as part of daily mathematics activities
Dancing can promote benefits to which organ? Folk dancing promotes what?
Heart health; cardiovascular health
The most important reason for using varied assessment methods and formats with young children is that such an approach:
Provides an opportunity for children to share what they know/ learned through different avenues
In 4th grade You roll a ball down a hill from the top, What are you working with? and where?
Kinetic Energy (ball rolling down hill) and Potential energy (Energy stored in the Ball before being released)
A first grade student writes " llavkadiesmwhc" in his journal and tells the teacher he wrote " I love candy so much." this sample writing demonstrates which milestone(s) essential to spelling development in English?
Awareness of the Alphabetic principle
True or false. A Pre-K teacher who wants to establish a classroom environment in which spontaneous play is encouraged, play is recognized, and valued as meaningful learning could ensure that a variety if materials are available in the classroom for students to try out and explore during playtime.
true
How could students be positioned or grouped to practice and demonstrate leadership skills and good listening skills?
Pairs and have them navigate a trail blind-folded.
What does physical science focus on?
The properties of material, an object's position and motion, and light, heat, electricity, and magnetism.
Explaining why a procedure for multiplication work using place value and properties of operations is an activity that's most appropriate for?
A fourth-grade students' skills in using mathematical language and to communicate relationships and concepts
A pair of students uses different size blocks to measure two different tables. The first student uses a 2 inch block while the second student use a 4 inch block. they decide that the tables are two different sizes. The teacher goes behind them and measures out both tables with a ruler and gets the same measurement for both table lengths. This situation could be most appropriately used for which mathematical concept?
Standard units of measurements
A first grade student is transitioning into a new school after graduating from PR-kindergarten. She had an IEP and will continue with one. What role must the general first grade education teacher play, most appropriately, in the IEP meeting?
Develop appropriate academic interventions and strategies to meet the curricular goals decided upon
What is being used when A kindergarten teacher has balls in a parachute and they stretch it out, what is she working on?
Gravity
In a elementary class like 4th grade, Providing explicit instructions focused on distinguishing between fact and opinion in a text, would promote which reading skill in a student?
Evaluative reading comprehension skills
According to the National Council of teachers of mathematics (NCTM) Principles and standards for school mathematics, elementary mathematics activities does what?
Encourage the use of shortcuts and mnemonic devices to improve fluency
What's one example of a gross motor skill?
The science that focuses on characteristics life cycles of organisms
Life Science
A third grade student is solving a word problem correctly with showing their work. They solve the work correctly, but has yet to show their work. How can the teacher assess the students conceptual understanding of the problem?
By asking the student to explain the steps that allowed them to arrive at the answer they got
A student is having trouble with single digit by double /multi- digit addition. Which assessment could best identify the problem?
Error analysis
A new hire teacher who is new in the area can best prep to be an effective advocate for students by taking what action?
Learn about the characteristics and needs of families within the community.
A kindergarten teacher watches as a couple students play with toys. They use blocks, connecting cubes and more to build a bridge so that they can drive their toy cars across. The bridge falls and the toy cars go with it What is the best type of question that could be asked to promote the development of reasoning and problem solving skills?
Why do you think the bridge fell over? How might you build the bridge differently?
Which principle of effective beginning reading instruction is presented when a second-grade teacher uses evidence-based flexible grouping and selects different types of texts (e.g., decodable texts, leveled texts, chapter books) for different reading groups?
Transitioning students to more challenging texts as they progress in their reading skills.
The following statement describes what? " To clarify the standards and clearly define the specific skills and concepts within each subject area that will be assessed on the test."
The major role of assessment anchors in the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA)
A kindergarten students recognizes that seven lions are larger than lemons, but seven lemons represents the same quantity as seven lions. This means, they have an understanding of what?
Number sense
what is the fundamental principle of science?
Scientific investigations are based on observations and questions.
A kindergarten teacher wants his students to be able to decompose the number 10 into number pairs. What activity can he use to meet this objective effectively?
Use number cubes or deferent color connecting cubes to represent the number 10in various ways