Economics
Florida's Geography
Government & Citizenship
1800s to Now
Anything Can Happen
Colonization of Florida
A Boat & Bus Tour
Vocabulary Through the Year
B/M/J Time
100
These are the four industries of Florida.
What are SPACE!!!, agriculture, tourism, and trade?
(double points if you screamed SPACE!!!)
100
These are the intermediate directions on a compass.
What are northwest, southwest, northeast, and southeast?
100
These are the three branches of government.
What are legislative, executive, and judicial?
100
Person A is known as the "Mother of Miami" and convinced Person B to build a railroad to Miami.
Who are Julia Tuttle and Henry Flagler?
100
Everybody loses points.
Womp Womp
Cry about it!
(This was Josie's idea.)
100
This explorer first landed in the New World in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
This is the happiest place on Earth.
What is Walt Disney World?
100
the study of landmasses and how they affect people
What is geography?
100
This special drink that kids should NOT be drinking makes Brigitte two of the seven dwarves (double points if you name the dwarves).
What is coffee?
(Who are Sleepy and Grumpy?)
200
A product that can be bought or sold is known by this name.
What is a good?
200
These are the cardinal directions on a compass.
What are north, south, east, and west?
200
These are the three levels of government found in the United States.
What are federal, state, and local levels?
200
This name was given to pioneers who herded cattle. The name was based on the sound their whips made.
What is a cracker?
200
This student gave Mr. Remon the globe on his desk.
Who is Nicolle Machin-Cabrera?
(You get double points if you say the full name.)
200
This was the first European explorer to set foot in Florida. He gave Florida its name.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
200
This natural wonder was the first stop on the tour and and is the closest one to us. It is located that way.
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What is the Everglades?
200
a map that shows just one kind of information, such as rainfall or elevation
What is a special-purpose map?
200
This is Mike's favorite food.
HINT: It is a made with ground beef.
What is picadillo?
300
An action that is performed in exchange for money is called this.
What is a service?
300
These lines on a map help us find coordinates of any place on Earth.
What are lines of latitude and lines of longitude?
300
These are the two types of local government in Florida.
What are county and municipal (city) governments?
300
In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C. In 1964, he traveled to this city in Florida to continue his civil rights activism.
HINT: It is Florida's oldest city.
What is St. Augustine?
300
This is Mr. Remon's favorite in all of 4th grade.
All of my students are my favorites. I love all of you, and I've enjoyed having all of you in my classroom.
(If you say it's any of the hosts, you lose points.)
300
There were three main reason for European exploration of America.
What are gold, religion, and colonies?
300
This stop on the tour is a community in Miami, Florida, that became a refuge for Cuban immigrants fleeing the island.
What is Little Havana?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
This is the capital of Wisconsin.
What is Madison?
300
Jose's pet is this type of animal (double points if you get the breed correct).
What is a dog?
(What is a goldendoodle?)
400
When an action for the community is performed by the government and paid with taxes, it is known as this.
What is a public service?
400
This hurricane caused massive damage to the South Florida area.
TWO POSSIBLE ANSWERS:
What is Hurricane Andrew? (400 points)
What is the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926? (800 points)
400
The current constitution of Florida was written in this year.
What is 1968?
400
These are the four ways transportation in Florida improved in the early 1800s.
What are roads, bridges, boats, and railroads?
400
These are the three capitals of the United States.
What are U, S, and A?
400
Juan Ponce de Leon came to the New World to search for this legend.
What is the Fountain of Youth?
400
Mr. Remon lived close to this stop on the tour.
What are the Polk County Citrus Groves?
400
a hilly region at the base of a mountain range
What are foothills?
400
This is Brigitte's favorite place to visit.
HINT: It is in Los Angeles, California.
What is Santa Monica Pier?
500
This mineral is an important part of Florida's economy. 75% of all that is used in the US is mined from Florida.
What is phosphate?
500
Julia Tuttle convinced Henry Flagler to build a railroad to Miami because this geographic event did not destroy citrus crops in Miami.
What is a freeze?
500
This is the name for the system in place to stop any one branch of government from having too much power.
What are checks and balances?
500
This is the song written by James Weldon Johnson that became the anthem for the NAACP.
What is "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing?"
500
DAILY TRIPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You may have a free 1500 points right now...
or you can wear the Mad Hatter hat in exchange for 1500 points.
(the whole team can take turns wearing it)
500
This Spanish conquistador set sail for Mexico to find gold but was shipwrecked because of a storm.
HINT: His name involves heads of cows.
Who is Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Someone in 4th grade has a family member who owns a cafe in Little Havana.
Who is Melodie Acosta?
(double points if you pronounce it meh-LOW-dee-ay)
500
a long, narrow stretch of land that is surrounded by water on three sides
What is a peninsula?
500
This is Mike's favorite country.
HINT: It is in South America.
What is Brazil?
600
This is the percentage of workers in Florida that are immigrants.
What is 23%
600
This is the longest river in the United States.
What is the Mississippi River?
600
Ruby wanted to make a recycling program for parks. She brought this before her town council to show community support.
What is a petition?
600
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Noa Rubio played this role in the Ranita play.
(quadruple points if you quote his only line in the play)
What is Man One?
("Keep looking! If we don't find that golden arrow—")
600
Whoever selected this must bawk like a chicken every time someone gives an answer until your team goes again. If you do the challenge successfully, the team gets 600 points, and the person who selected this gets candy. You may refuse, but you will be named "Chicken Nugget" until the end of the day.
Good luck! Try not to die of embarrassment.
600
This conquistador was the first European to cross the Mississippi River.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
600
Two stops on the tour are located in St. Augustine, the oldest city what is now the United States.
What are Castillo de San Marcos and Fort Mose Historical Park?
600
a major population center made up of a large city and the smaller cities and towns that surround it
What is a metropolitan area?
600
This is Jose's pet's name.
Who is Milo?
700
Tourism in Florida is defined by two major categories. Name them.
What are resorts/theme parks and natural wonders?
700
an imaginary line, marked by rapids and waterfalls, where rivers start to drop from higher land to lower land
What is a fall line?
700
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
This is the nickname the Mad Hatter gave to Abigail.
What is Miniscule Adolescent?
(if you say "miniscular adolescent," you lose double points)
700
Henry Plant gave this response to his friend and rival, Henry Flagler, when Flagler asked where Plant's hotel was.
What is "just follow the crowds"?
700
Do a staring contest against the hosts. If you beat one of them, you get 700 points. If you beat all the hosts, you get double points and the chance to face Mr. Remon. If you beat him, triple points.
However, if you lose at any point, you lose all the points you earned.
700
These three countries fought over control of Florida for 300 years.
What are Spain, France, and Great Britain (England)?
700
A Spanish mission to the Apalachee Indians was another stop on our tour.
What is San Luis de Talimali?
700
land set aside for Native Americans
What is a reservation?
700
This is Brigitte's favorite dog breed.
What is a toy poodle?
800
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
This is the number of field trips Mr. Remon took to Universal without his fourth grade students.
What is two times?
(Yes, I betrayed you. Gonna cry?)
800
These are the five themes of geography.
What are location, place, human-environmental interaction, movement, and regions?
800
If you picked this, you must do something that your team makes you do. If you refuse, you lose only 400 points.
If you did it, you get 1600 points.
800
If you pick this, you can either lose 800 points or make another team lose 1600 points.
If you were nice and took the points off, you get two lollipops.
800
You get 3 dad jokes that have never been heard and never will, OR you can let someone else look in the book instead.
If you let someone else see the dad jokes, you will get double dad jokes and also read the SECRET dad jokes with the selected person.
(also, 800 points if you let someone else read)
800
This was the name of the first French fort in Florida.
What is Fort Caroline?
800
This stop on the tour was the site of the Apollo program which sent the first people to the moon.
What is Kennedy Space Center?
800
a period of slow economic activity
What is a recession?
800
This is Mike's favorite thing about Mr. Remon's classroom.
HINT: We've had 9 of these.
What are the tests?
900
This was the first homework assignment Mr. Remon gave at the beginning of the year.
What is organizing a budget?
900
Give an example of an inland country.
Any country not touching the ocean is inland.
900
If you picked this, you may play the kalimba or get 1800 points.
Decisions, decisions!
900
If you pick this, you get a cookie.
Or you can get the points!
900
You will get asked three trivia questions by one of the hosts. You will choose a host to go against, and you will bet how many points you want.
You do know you could have bet more than what you had, right?
900
European colonization of Florida had many negative effects on the Native Americans already living there.
What are loss of culture, war and conflict, disease, and slavery?
900
Fort Mose was founded as a settlement for escaped or freed slaves. To live there, these ex-slaves had to meet three conditions.
1. swear loyalty to the Spanish king
2. serve in the Spanish army
3. convert to the Catholic religion
900
a ditch filled with water that surrounds a fort
What is a moat?
900
This is Jose's favorite Pokemon.
What is Miraidon?
1000
FREE POINTS FOR EVERYONE!!!
Mr. Remon is officially no longer evil.
1000
Name all 50 states.
If your name is Leah, this better be easy.
1000
Ruby from the book went to this school.
What is Washington Elementary?
1000
If you picked this, you get candy.
Or you can get the points!
1000
You will spin the globe. If it lands on Brazil, you get 1000 points. You will get three tries.
Good luck! (:
1000
This was the year the United States finally gained control of Florida.
What is 1819?
1000
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
This was the name of the new NASA space program that will send astronauts back to the moon.
HINT: We learned about this at our field trip to the Frost Science Museum.
What is the Artemis program?
1000
a place that is ruled by another country
What is a colony?
1000
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Everyone has a favorite animal. That includes Brigitte Ramos, Mike Avila, and Jose de Varona. List their favorite animals.
Brigitte: dog (toy poodle)
Mike: polar bear
Jose: dog