SCIENCE
SCIENCE:
It takes the Earth this long EXACTLY to orbit the sun.
What is 365.25 days?
SOCIAL STUDIES:
This person was the first president of the United States of America. His face also graces the one dollar bill!
Who is George Washington?
MATH:
This is the answer to the math problem -5 + -4.
What is -9?
ELA:
Mrs. Guy's hair is as curly as a labradoodle's.
This type of figurative language is being used in the above sentence.
What is a simile?
SCIENCE:
This element has the atomic number of one.
What is Hydrogen?
SOCIAL STUDIES:
This is the name for the religion that is followed by Christians.
What is Christianity?
MATH:
This is the number you get when you add up the angles of a triangle.
What is 180 degrees?
ELA:
Mrs. Niemann is an angel; she is just so nice!
This is the type of figurative language used in the above sentence.
What is a metaphor?
SCIENCE:
Molecules move fastest when they are in this state of matter.
What is a gas or vapor?
SOCIAL STUDIES:
This is the name for the place where the president of the United States lives while serving in office.
What is the White House?
MATH:
This is the number you get when you add up complementary angles.
What is 90 degrees?
ELA:
Its raining cats and dogs.
The above sentence is missing something... THIS is what it is missing!
It's raining cats and dogs.
You need an apostrophe in "it's" because it is a contraction.
SCIENCE:
Obsidian is this type of rock.
What is igneous?
SOCIAL STUDIES:
This is the man who has long been credited with the discovery of the Americas by the Europeans.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
MATH:
If you want to turn a fraction into a decimal, this is the way to do it!
What is divide the numerator by the denominator?
ELA:
Mrs. Mahala our English teacher is excited to see our reading growth on the TCAP!
The above sentence is missing something... THIS is what it is missing!
Mrs. Mahala, our English teacher, is excited to see our reading growth on the TCAP!
There needs to be commas around "our English teacher" because it is extra information.
SCIENCE:
This molecule carries genetic instructions in all living things.
What is DNA, or Deoxyribonucleic acid?
SOCIAL STUDIES:
These were the two sides involved in the American Civil War.
Who were the North and the South?
MATH:
This formula will help you calculate the area of a circle.
What is pi x r2 ?
ELA:
When writing an INFORMATIONAL or ARGUMENTATIVE essay, I want to avoid using THESE. (Hint: they are a part of speech!)
What are personal pronouns?