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T y p e o f R e s o u r c e Name/Des c r i p t i o n URL

General Valuable information in many different subject areas from About.com

www.home.about.com/homework www.home.about.com/kids

Valuable information in many different subject areas from Kidinfo.com

www.kidinfo.com/SchoolSubjects.html

Dictionaries Information Please Dictionary www.infoplease.com

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary www.m-w.com

Merriam-Webster’s Word Central www.wordcentral.com

Biographical Dictionaries

Biography.com www.biography.com

Almanacs Information Please Almanac www.infoplease.com

Information Please Kid’s Almanac, Dictionary, and Encyclopedia

www.factmonster.com

Search Engines

Yahooligans Kid’s Search Engine (Provides excellent links to reference material and

sites with information in different subject areas.)

www.yahooligans.com

Encyclopedias Information Please Encyclopedia www.infoplease.com

Britannica www.britannica.com

Encarta www.encarta.msn.com

Comptons On-line www.comptons.com

Funk and Wagnalls On-line www.funkandwagnalls.com

On-line Encyclopedia www.encyclopedia.com

Link to a variety of encyclopedias and biographical dictionaries

www.encyclopedia.langenberg.com

Atlases National Geographic’s On-line Atlas. Over 600 maps can be viewed or printed.

www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/main.html?main=atlas


Science & Mathemat ics Research Web Sites Conducting research might seem difficult at first. The Internet can be a valuable and efficient research tool, once you feel comfortable using it. In the following list, you will find links to excellent resources on the Internet. Have fun conducting your research!


Science Especially for Kids

Index of links to science sites on the Web. It is divided into categories based on

branches of science. It also includes an “ask a scientist section.”

www.sciquestfoundation.org/k12/index.html

Rader’s Kapilli (This is an incredible science resource. In the RESEARCH section

find valuable information about different branches of science. There is also a science dictionary. In the GARDENS section find detailed information about plant and animal species from around the world, divided by

biomes, continents, families, and the alphabet.)

www.kapilli.com www.kapili.com/research www.kapilli.com/gardens

Science information for kids from About.com

www.kidscience.about.com

Astronomy information for kids from About.com

www.kidsastronomy.about.com/kids/kidsastronomy/mbody.htm

Information about inventors from About.com

www.inventors.about.com/science/inventors

Science information from Kidinfo.com www.kidinfo.com/School_Subjects.html#Science

Enchanted Learning (includes a science dictionary and a lot of information about

zoology, astronomy, and geography) www.enchantedlearning.com

General for Kids

Information Please Kid’s Almanac, Dictionary, and Encyclopedia (an

excellent resource) www.factmonster.com

Yahooligans Kid’s Search Engine www.yahooligans.com

Magazines National Geographic World www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/index.html

Television Bill Nye the Science Guy Home Page www.billnye.org


Eric Weisstein’s World of Scientific Biography

www.treasure-troves.com/bios


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History History Place www.historyplace.com

History information from About.com. The sections are broken down by

centuries and regions. There is also an art history section.

www.home.about.com/homework/index.htm

Detailed data from all US elections. www.uselectionatlas.org

Detailed information from elections around the world.

www.electionresources.org

Geography A lot of geography information from About.com. It includes an atlas.

www.geography.about.com/homework/geography/mbody.htm

Information on cultures and languages of the world from About.com.

www.home.about.com/culture

General for Kids

Information Please Kid’s Almanac, Dictionary, and Encyclopedia (an

excellent resource) www.factmonster.com

Valuable information in many different subject areas from About.com

www.home.about.com/homework www.home.about.com/kids

Valuable information in many different subject areas from Kidinfo.com. There

are many sections on history and geography. It includes an atlas and

many other reference materials.

www.kidinfo.com/SchoolSubjects.html

Yahooligans Kid’s Search Engine (Provides excellent links to reference material and

sites with information in different subject areas.)

www.yahooligans.com

Magazines Time Magazine for Kids www.timeforkids.com/TFK/

Television History Channel www.historychannel.com


Biography.com www.biography.com


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Especially for Kids

Current events for kids from About.com

www.kidsnews.about.com

Current events for kids from Kidinfo.com

www.kidinfo.com/Current_Events/Current_Events.html

News and issues for kids from Kidinfo.com www.kidsnews.about.com/kids/kidsnews/mbody.htm

Channel One News www.channelonenews.com/feature

The New York Times for kids www.nytimes.com/learning

Tomorrow’s Morning (A weekly newspaper for kids)

www.morning.com

Time Magazine for Kids www.timeforkids.com/TFK/

ABC news for kids www.abcnews.go.com/abcnews4kids

Newspapers New York Times www.nytimes.com

Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com

Magazines Newsweek www.newsweek.com

Time www.time.com/time

US News & World Report www.usnews.com

Television BBC (Great Britain’s international news) www.bbc.com

CNN www.cnn.com

Deutsche Welle (Germany’s international news)

www.dwelle.de/english

Fox News www.foxnews.com

MSNBC www.msnbc.com

ESPN www.espn.com

Radio National Public Radio www.npr.com

General Information Please Kid’s Almanac, Dictionary, and Encyclopedia

www.factmonster.com

Yahooligans Kid’s Search Engine www.yahooligans.com

Mathematics Homework

Name ____________ Date _____________


Name: Date:

Math A: Addit ion & Subtract ion

Week 1: Week 2: (a) 3 + 6 = ____ (b) 7 + 2 = ____

(c) 4 + 3 = ____ (d) 5 + 4 = ____

(a) 8 + 2 = ____ (b) 7 + 4 = ____

(c) 7 + 9 = ____ (d) 5 + 8 = ____

Step 1 Step 2 Step 1 Step 2

Solve the problems and show ALL your work.

Check your work by solving the appropriate subtraction problems.



Week 3: Week 4: (a) 7 – 2 = ____ (b) 6 – 0 = ____

(c) 8 – 4 = ____ (d) 9 – 8 = ____

(a) 14 – 2 = ____ (b) 26 – 4 = ____

(c) 17 – 3 = ____ (d) 28 – 6 = ____



Check your work by solving the appropriate

addition problems.



addition problems.

Week 5: Week 6: (a) 3 + 8 = ____ (b) 27 + 5 = ____

(c) 34 + 9 = ____ (d) 25 + 6 = ____

(a) 24 + 21 = ____ (b) 17 + 10 = ____

(c) 14 + 13 = ____ (d) 25 + 44 = ____






Week 7: Week 8: (a) 20 – 7 = ____ (b) 14 – 6 = ____

(c) 84 – 23 = ____ (d) 27 – 18 = ____

(a) 70 – 26 = ____ (b) 73 – 14 = ____

(c) 38 – 19 = ____ (d) 65 – 48 = ____




addition problems.



addition problems.

Week 9: Week 10: (a) 463 + 6 = ____ (b) 314 + 52 = ____

(c) 924 + 17 = ____ (d) 865 + 78 = ____

(a) 107 – 4 = ____ (b) 854 – 42 = ____

(c) 375 – 200 = ____ (d) 561 – 29 = ____






addition problems.


Name: Date:

Math B: Addit ion & Subtract ion

Week 1: 42 + 26 = ____

Week 2: 421 + 357 = ____

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3

Solve the problem and

show ALL your work.

Explain EVERY step you take in a complete

sentence.

Check your work by solving the appropriate subtraction

problem.


show ALL your work.


sentence.


problem. Week 3:

84 – 23 = ____ Week 4:

854 – 321 = ____ Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3


show ALL your work.


sentence.


addition problem.


show ALL your work.


sentence.


addition problem. Week 5:

76 + 48 = ____ Week 6:

529 + 783 = ____ Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3


show ALL your work.


sentence.


problem.


show ALL your work.


sentence.


problem. Week 7:

75 – 26 = ____ Week 8:



show ALL your work.


sentence.


addition problem.


show ALL your work.


sentence.


addition problem. Week 9:

52196 + 38417 = ____ Week 10:



show ALL your work.


sentence.


problem.


show ALL your work.


sentence.


addition problem.


Name: Date:

Math C: Mult ip l i cat ion & Div is ion Tables

Week 1: Write multiplication tables for 1,2,and 3.

Week 2: Write multiplication tables for 4 and 5.

1 × 0 = 0 1 × 1 = 1

2 × 0 = 0

3 × 0 = 0

4 × 0 = 0 4 × 1 = 4

5 × 0 = 0



6 × 0 = 0 6 × 1 = 6

7 × 0 = 0

8 × 0 = 0 8 × 1 = 8

9 × 0 = 0 9 × 1 = 9

Week 5: Write division tables for 1, 2, 3.

Week 6: Write division tables for 4 and 5.

1 ÷ 1 = 1 2 ÷ 1 = 2

2 ÷ 2 = 1 4 ÷ 2 = 2

3 ÷ 3 = 1

4 ÷ 4 = 1 8 ÷ 4 =2

5 ÷ 5 = 1



6 ÷ 6 = 1 12 ÷ 6 = 2

7 ÷ 7 = 1 8 ÷ 8 = 1 16 ÷ 8 = 2

9 ÷ 9 = 1

Week 9: Write and solve a multiplication story problem.

Week 10: Write and solve a division story problem.


Name: Date:

Math C: Mult ip l i cat ion & Div is ion

Week 1: 24 × 2 = ____

Week 2: 121 × 3= ____

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Solve the

problem and show ALL your work.


sentence.

Check your work by solving the

appropriate division problem.


show ALL your work.


sentence.



Week 3: 42 ÷ 7 = ____

Week 4: 36 ÷ 4 = ____



show ALL your work.


sentence.


multiplication problem.


show ALL your work.


sentence.



Week 5: 23 × 4 = ____

Week 6: 172 × 3 = ____




sentence.




show ALL your work.


sentence.



Week 7: 92 ÷ 4 = ____

Week 8: 784 ÷ 7 = ____



show ALL your work.


sentence.




show ALL your work.


sentence.



Week 9: 54 × 40 = ____

Week 10: 930 ÷ 5 = ____



show ALL your work.


sentence.




show ALL your work.


sentence.




Name: Date:

Math D: Mult ip l i cat ion & Div is ion

Week 1: 213 × 3 = ____

Week 2: 28 × 6= ____




sentence.




show ALL your work.


sentence.



Week 3: 63 ÷ 9 = ____

Week 4: 1539 ÷ 3 = ____



show ALL your work.


sentence.




show ALL your work.


sentence.



Week 5: 358 × 6 = ____

Week 6: 31 × 23 = ____




sentence.




show ALL your work.


sentence.



Week 7: 87 ÷ 3 = ____

Week 8: 462 ÷ 6 = ____



show ALL your work.


sentence.




show ALL your work.


sentence.



Week 9: 37 × 41 = ____

Week 10: 3672 ÷ 4 = ____



show ALL your work.


sentence.




show ALL your work.


sentence.




Name: Date:

Math A: P lace Va lue

Week 1:

1 in the ones place, 7 in the tens place

Week 2: 8 in the ones place, 2 in the tens place, 4 in

the hundreds place Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3

Write the number

described above.

Write the number in

words.

Read the number aloud.

Write the number

described above.

Write the number in

words.


Week 3: 6 in the ones place, 3 in the tens place, 4 in the thousands place, 9 in the ten thousands

place

Week 4:

10,456

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Write the

number described

above.

Write the number in

words.



Write the number in

words.

Write the number in

expanded form.

Week 5: 30,000 + 200 + 40 + 7

Week 6: 900,000 + 80,000 + 4,000 + 3


number described

above.

Write the number in

words.

What digit is in the tens

place?

Write the number

described above.

Write the number in

words.

What digit is in the hundreds

place?

Week 7: three thousand four hundred two

Week 8: sixty-one thousand nine hundred eighty-two


number described

above.

What digit is in the ones

place?

What digit is in the hundreds

place?

Write the number

described above.

What digit is in the tens

place?

What digit is in the ten

thousands place?

Week 9: two hundred seventy-four thousand five

hundred eight

Week 10: nine hundred twenty thousand seven

hundred forty-six Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3

Write the number

described above.

What digit is in the thousands

place?

In which place is the 7?

Write the number

described above.

What digit is in the hundred thousands

place place?

In which place is the 0?


Name: Date:

Math B: P lace Va lue

Week 1: 7 in the ones place, 3 in the tens place, 6 in

the hundreds place

Week 2: 5 in the hundreds place, 8 in the ones place, 9

in the tens place Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3

Write the number

described above.

Write the number in

words.

Add 304 to this number.

Write the number

described above.

Write the number in

words.

Subtract 62 from this number.

Week 3: 1 in the ones place, 8 in the tens place, 5 in the thousands place, 6 in the ten thousands place

Week 4: 4 in the tens place, 2 in the thousands place, 6 in the ten thousands place, 0 in the ones place, 9 in

the hundred thousands place Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3

Write the number

described above.

Write the number in

words.

Add 38 to the digit in the tens place.

Write the number

described above.

Write the number in

words.

Add 987 to the digit in the ten

thousands place.

Week 5: 30,000 + 5,000 + 700 + 90 + 8

Week 6: 100,000 + 80,000 + 400 + 6


number described

above.

Write the number in

words.

Add 67 to the digit in the thousands

place.

Write the number

described above.

Write the number in

words.

In which place is the largest

digit?

Week 7: 4,000,000 + 90,000 + 6,000 + 20 + 3

Week 8: 500,000 + 90,000 + 700 + 10


Write the number

described above.

Write the number in

words.

Add together the digits in the

millions and thousands place.

Write the number

described above.

Write the number in

words.

Subtract the digit in the tens place from the digit in

the hundred thousands place.

Week 9: two hundred seventy-four thousand five

hundred two

Week 10: four hundred forty-nine thousand six hundred

eighteen Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3

Write the number

described above.

Add the digit in the ones place to the digit in the thousands place.

In which place is the smallest

digit?

Write the number

described above.

Add the digit in the ones place to the digit in the thousands place.

In which place is the largest

digit?


Name: Date:

Math C: P lace Va lue & Round ing

Week 1: 6 in the hundreds place, 9 in the ones place, 3

in the tens place

Week 2: 5 in the thousands place, 4 in the ones place, 3

in the hundreds place Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3

Write the number with

digits and with words.

Round the number to the nearest ten.

Explain in a sentence how you got your

answer.





answer. Week 3:

8 in the ones place, 9 in the tens place, 5 in the hundreds place, 6 in the ten thousands place, 4 in

the hundred thousands place

Week 4: 4 in the tens place, 2 in the thousands place, 6 in

the hundred thousands place, 0 in the ones place, 1 in the millions place




Round the number to the

nearest hundred.


answer.




nearest hundred

thousand.


answer.

Week 5: 60,000 + 5,000 + 700 + 80 + 9

Week 6: 100,000 + 50,000 + 40 + 9


number with digits and with

words.


nearest hundred.


answer.




nearest hundred.


answer. Week 7:

7,000,000 + 90,000 + 6,000 + 200 + 5 Week 8:

900,000 + 90,000 + 900 + 9 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3




nearest thousand.


answer.





answer. Week 9:

four hundred sixty-four thousand five hundred fifty-two

Week 10: eight hundred forty-nine thousand three

hundred two Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3

Write the number with digits and in

expanded form.


nearest hundred.


answer.

Write the number with digits and in

expanded form.


nearest thousand.


answer.


Name: Date:

Math D: Fract ions Each week do the following for the figure given: 1. How much of the figure is colored? Write your answer as a fraction. 2. What is the numerator of this fraction? 3. What is the denominator of this fraction? 4. Write this fraction in words. 5. Bonus: Write an equivalent fraction to this one. Explain with a picture why it is equivalent. 6. How much of the figure is not colored? Write your answer as a fraction. 7. What is the numerator of this fraction? 8. What is the denominator of this fraction? 9. Write this fraction in words. 10. Bonus: Write an equivalent fraction to this one. Explain with a picture why it is equivalent. 11. If you add your answer from (1) to your answer from (6), what should you get? Answer in complete sentences in your composition book or on your paper.

Week 1 Week 2

Week 3 Week 4

Week 5 Week 6

Week 7 Week 8

Week 9 Week 10


Name: Date:

Math A: Te l l i ng Time Each week do the following: 1. Tell the time on the clock. Write your answer in a complete sentence. 2. Concentrate on this time for the week.

Choose am (the morning) or pm (afternoon and evening). 3. In 2-3 sentences, write about what you did on two days this week at that time.

Week 1 Week 2

Week 3 Week 4

Week 5 Week 6

Week 7 Week 8

Week 9 Week 10


Name: Date:

Math B: Measurement Each week carefully measure the three things using the units given. Describe each object in detail in 5-7 sentences. Include its measurement in your description.

Week 1 Week 2

• the length of your kitchen table in inches

• the height of a kitchen chair in inches • the length of a fork in inches

• the length of a couch in feet • the length of a television set in inches • the width of a telephone in centimeters

Week 3 Week 4

• the length of a bicycle in feet • the width of one of your school books

in centimeters • the length of a car

• your height in feet and inches • your weight in pounds • the length of your legs in inches

Week 5 Week 6

• the width of your closet in inches • the length of your bed in feet • the thickness on your pillow in

centimeters

• the height of someone in your family in feet

• the height of a friend in inches • the weight of your favorite book in

pounds Week 7 Week 8 • the weight of a box full of some of

your favorite things in pounds • the length of your foot in centimeters • the weight of your backpack full of

books in pounds.

• the length of your bedroom in feet • the weight of a friend in pounds • the weight of a gallon of milk in pounds

Week 9 Week 10 • the weight of five cups of rice in pounds • the weight of five cups of water in

pounds • the weight of five cups of coins • Bonus: To be more exact, use the same

container for each measurement. Measure the weight of the container and subtract that value from each measurement.

• the length of something you choose in your house in feet

• the width of something you choose in your house in inches

• the weight of something in your house or someone in your family in pounds


Name: Date:

Math C: Measurement Follow the directions each week. Show ALL your work. Write your final answers in complete sentences in your composition book or on your paper.

You will need the following to complete your work each week: 2 cups (c.) = 1 pint (pt.)

2 pt. = 1 quart (qt.) 4 qt. = 1 gallon (gal.)

12 inches (in.) = 1 foot (ft.) 3 ft. = 1 yard (yd.)

36 in. = 1 yd.

Week 1 Week 2

• How many feet are there in 24 inches? • How many inches are there in 6 feet? • How many pints are there in 8 cups? • How many cups are there in 6 pints?

• How many inches are there in 2 yards? • How many yards are there in 15 feet? • How many quarts are there in 18 pints? • How many gallons are there in 16 quarts?

Week 3 Week 4

• How many feet are there in 9 yards? • How many yards are there in 180 inches? • How many pints are there in 16 quarts? • How many quarts are there in 24 gallons?

A soup recipe calls for 4 cups of water. How many pints of water is this? How many quarts?

Week 5 Week 6

During the month of April, Mrs. Wagner bought 20 gallons of milk! How many pints of milk did she buy? How many gallons?

Maxine has a jump rope that is 15 feet long. How long is the jump rope in yards? How long is it in inches?

Week 7 Week 8

Mr. Buckley has 11 1-gallon jugs. How many quarts of window-washing fluid could these jugs hold? How many pints?

If a REALLY long rope of red licorice measures 96 inches long, then how long is the licorice rope in feet? How long is it in yards?

Week 9 Week 10

My classroom is a square. It measures 9 yards on a side. What does each side measure in feet? What is the length of my classroom in inches?

Mrs. Ricke is a carpenter. She needs a wooden board that is 72 inches wide and 108 inches long. What width of board in feet does she need? What width of board in yards does she need? What length of board in feet does she need? What length of board in yards does she need?


Name: Date:

Math D: Measurement Follow the directions each week. Show ALL your work. Write your final answers in complete sentences in your composition book or on your paper.

Week 1 Week 2

• How many seconds are there in 1 minute? • How many seconds are there in 2 minutes? • How many minutes are there in 1 hour? • How many minutes are there in 2 hours?

• How many minutes are there in 4 hours? • How many minutes are there in 7 hours? • How many seconds are there in 5 minutes? • How many seconds are there in 240

minutes? Week 3 Week 4

• How many minutes are there in 36 hours? • How many seconds are there in 1 hour? • How many seconds are there in 12 hours? • How many hours are there in 1 day?

• How many hours are there in 2 days? • How many minutes are there in 1 day? • How many seconds are there in 1 day? • How many minutes are there in 3 days?

Week 5 Week 6

• How many hours are there in 1 week? • How many minutes are there in 1 week? • How many minutes are there in 14 days? • How many hours are there in 1 year (not a

leap year)?

Jennifer’s family is planning to watch a movie on Friday night. Her dad is going to make his special extra buttery popcorn. Yum! The movie is 113 minutes long. How many seconds will the movie last? About how many hours will the movie last?

Week 7 Week 8 Janice was born at 5:00am on November 5th. She and her parents plan to eat a special breakfast at the time she was born on her birthday this year! It is now November 2nd at 4:00pm. How many hours must she wait? How many minutes in all?

Ronan is very excited about going to his grandmother’s house. His mother told him he has to wait for 72 hours. It is now 3:15pm on Monday. At what time and on what day is he going to his grandmother’s? How many minutes does he have to wait?

Week 9 Week 10 Kevin has a big history project due at 8am on Monday morning. It is now 3:30 on Friday afternoon. How many hours and minutes does he have until his project is due? Bonus: If Kevin goes to bed each night at 9 o’clock and wakes up at 7 o’clock, how much time will Kevin be awake to work on his project?

Monica can hardly wait until her soccer tournament. It begins in precisely 101 hours and 12 minutes. It is now 8:03am on Wednesday. On what day does her tournament begin? At what time? How many minutes in all does she have to wait?


Name: Date:

Math A: Mult i-Step Story Prob lems ( S t a t i c + , – )

Each week do the following in your composition book or on your paper:

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Carefully read the problem and figure out what you are

asked to do.

Draw a picture or chart to illustrate

the problem. Solve the problem. Check your work.

Write your answer in a complete

sentence.

Week 1 Week 2 Jared has two pets: a German Shepherd and a parakeet. The dog weighs 15 pounds and the bird weighs 2 pounds. How much more does the dog weigh than the bird?

Greta is 4 inches taller than Peter. Peter is 52 inches tall. How tall is Greta?

Week 3 Week 4

Jackie has to be in bed at 8:30 on school nights. Jesse’s bedtime is 15 minutes later than Jackie’s bedtime. What is Jesse’s bedtime?

Petra was born in 1993. How old did she turn on her birthday in 1999? Petra is now 8 and her babysitter is 6 years older. How old is Petra’s babysitter?

Week 5 Week 6

Jo Ann lives 63 kilometers from Martin. Kelly lives 89 kilometers from Martin. How many kilometers closer to Martin does Jo Ann live than Kelly? Bonus: Is there enough information to say how far Jo Ann lives from Kelly? If so, how far do they live from each other? If not, why?

Harry Potter went on a bike ride. He rode 3 miles from home to a nearby park. Then 5 miles from the park to a candy store. From the candy store, he traveled 2 miles to his friend’s house. After eating dinner with his friend, he rode another 4 miles to his house. He was exhausted! How far did he ride before dinner? How much farther did he ride before dinner than after dinner? How far did Harry ride in all?

Week 7 Week 8 Kristin and Christina collect rocks. Kristin has 42 cool rocks and Christina has 67. Who has more rocks? How many more does that girl have than the other? How many rocks do the two girls have together?

Seventy-three people live in Mike’s apartment building. In Austin’s building, there are 86 people. How many people live in both buildings? How many more people live in Austin’s building than in Mike’s building?

Week 9 Week 10 For the library “Bookworm” contest, Gina read 111 pages, Carla read 33 pages, and Willy read 65 pages. Who read the most? How many more pages did Willy read than Carla? How many pages did the three bookworms read altogether? Bonus: How many pages can you read this week? Where would you place in the contest?

The Moeller family drove 976 miles on their vacation this year and 722 miles on their vacation last year. How many miles did they travel on both vacations together? Did they travel farther this year or last year? By how many miles? Bonus: From your city, where could you go on vacation if you were to travel 722 miles in all?


Name: Date:

Math B: Mult i-Step Story Prob lems Part 1 ( D y n a m i c + , – )

Follow the directions each week. Show ALL your work. Write your final answers in complete sentences in your composition book or on your paper.

Week 1: Week 2:

In 1662 Blaise Pascal began a horse-drawn bus service. In 1904 the first motor buses were used in New York and London. For how long were there only horse-drawn buses?

There are 103 pages in Allen’s math book. He has completed 35 pages. He is really looking forward to learning about fractions. Fractions first appear in the book 26 pages from the end. How many pages before he gets to fractions?


Think: What is the problem asking? Is it an addition or subtraction problem?

Set up and solve the problem.

Write your answer in a complete sentence.

On what page do

fractions first

appear?

Answer the question by

subtracting the number of pages he has completed from

the number from step 1.


Week 3: Week 4: At PETWORLD there are 5 dogs. There is a Golden Retriever that weighs 36 pounds. There is a Great Dane that weighs 118 pounds. There are two poodles: one weighs 27 pounds and the other weighs 14 pounds. There is also a 101 Dalmatian that weighs 79 pounds. • How much do the two poodles weigh

together? • How much do the 5 dogs weigh in all? • Which dog weighs the most? • How much more does the Great Dane

weigh than the Golden Retriever?

Gregory needs 293 more points to tie the highest scorer on his favorite video game. The current high score is 1,500. • How many points does he have now? • How many points does he need to be the

highest scorer? • Bonus: What is your highest score on

your favorite video game? What is the highest score? How many points do you need to be the highest scorer?

Week 5:

Write and solve your own multi-step story problem. Include at least two questions: one that requires addition and one that requires subtraction.


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Math B: Mult i-Step Story Prob lems Part 2 ( D y n a m i c + , – )

Follow the directions each week. Show ALL your work. Write your final answers in complete sentences in your composition book or on your paper.

Week 6:

In the 2000 US Presidential election, George W. Bush received 271 electoral votes and Al Gore received 267 electoral votes. • How many more electoral votes did Bush receive? • How many electoral votes are there in all? • Who won the presidency in 2000? • Bonus: What are electoral votes?

Week 7 Week 8

In the 2000 US Presidential election, George W. Bush received 49,820,518 popular votes, Ralph Nader received 2,702,640 popular votes, Pat Buchanan received 441,003 popular votes, and Al Gore received 50,158,094 popular votes. • What are popular votes? • Rank the candidates in order from most

to least popular votes. • What party did each of these three

candidates represent?

(Use the information given in week 7.) • How many more popular votes did Nader

receive than Buchanan? • How many people voted for Gore and

Nader combined? • How many people in all voted for these

four candidates for president? • Bonus: Find out something interesting

about the 2000 presidential election. Write about it in a paragraph.

Week 9 Week 10

What weighs the same as one 14-pound dog? • two 8-pound cats • one 3-pound ball and one 12-pound sack

of potatoes • two 6-pound weights • one 5-pound bag of sugar and one 9-

pound bag of rice

Draw a picture to illustrate your answer.

What is the same length as one 21-foot long snake? • two 10-foot long cars • one 7-foot tall basketball player and one

15-foot high building • one 8-foot long alligator and one 13-foot

high van • one 18-foot long bus and one 4-foot tall

chair

Draw a picture to illustrate your answer.


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Math C: Story Prob lems ( × , ÷ )



asked to do.

Draw a picture or chart to

illustrate the problem.

Solve the problem.

Check your work.


Week 1 Week 2

The students in Deangelo’s fourth grade are to be divided into 12 teams for a relay race. There will be 4 students on each team. How many students are in Deangelo’s class?

There are 42 athletes who signed up to play basketball. There will be 7 players on each team. How many basketball teams can be formed?

Week 3 Week 4

There are three dozen baseball cards that Michael and Zane are going to share. How many baseball cards do each of the boys get?

In our school election, there were three candidates for president. Believe it or not, there was a three-way tie! There were 369 votes cast. How many votes did each candidate receive?

Week 5 Week 6 Mrs. Ricke loves to make pound cakes. She bakes one when she has company, she brings one along when she visits someone in the hospital, she offers to make one when she is invited to someone’s house, and sometimes she makes them for people just because she’s nice. During 2000, she made 104 pound cakes! How many cakes did she make each week (on average)? (Hint: There are 52 weeks in a year.)

Mrs. Ricke’s special pound cake recipe calls for 8 eggs. How many eggs did she use for her cakes in 2000? (Hint: Use the information given in week 5.) Bonus: Find your own cake recipe and bake it for your family.

Week 7 Week 8

There are 896 miles between Cincinnati and New Orleans. If a Greyhound bus makes 63 one-way trips in two months, how many miles would the bus travel?

In one day an online gift store can pack 8,215 boxes of thank you notes. The boxes of thank you notes were packed 24 to a carton. How many full cartons of thank you notes would this be? How many boxes of thank you notes would be left over?

Week 9 Week 10 Write and solve your own multiplication story problem. Follow Step 2 – Step 5 when you solve your own problem.

Write and solve your own division story problem. Follow Step 2 – Step 5 when you solve your own problem.


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Math C: Mult i-Step Story Prob lems Part 1 ( + , – , × , ÷ )

Week 1: Sandy made $12.00 babysitting one day and $4.00 the next day. He also earned $2.00 cutting the grass for his father. Then he spent $9.95 on a new Harry Potter book. How much money did he have left?

Week 2: Three cans of soup cost $.99. How much do six cans of soup cost?


Add all the money Sandy

earned.

Subtract the money

spent on the new book.

Write the amount of money left in the form

of a sentence.

Think: if 3 cans cost

$.99, then 6 cans will be twice the

cost.

Add $.99 + $.99 OR multiply

$.99 X 2.


of a sentence.

Week 3: Leslie had 4 bags of mints with 12 mints in each bag. She ate 17 mints. How many does she have left?

Week 4: There are 6 dozen pieces of candy in a box. A group of 9 friends is going to split the candy evenly. How many pieces of candy will each person get?


With how many mints did Leslie

start?

Use the number

from step 1 to figure out how

many mints she has left?


How many pieces of candy are

there in all?

Divide the total pieces of candy by the number of people.


of a sentence.

Week 5: Write and solve your own multi-step story problem.

Week 6: Write and solve your own multi-step story problem.


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Week 7: Mary has filled 13 pages in her picture album. The album has 53 pages, but 4 pages have biography information on Mary. How many pages does Mary have left to fill?

Week 8: Louis and his mom decided to bake pound cakes for a soup kitchen. Each pound cake requires 8 eggs, 1 pound of flour, 1 pound of sugar, and 1 pound of butter. In the house they have 2 dozen eggs and 5 pounds of each of the three other ingredients. How many pound cakes can they make?


How many pages in the

picture album do not

have biography

information?

Subtract the number Mary

has filled from the

number from step 1 (the

total number without bio

info).


How many eggs are in 2 dozen? How many

cakes could they make with that

many eggs?

How many cakes could they make with the

amount of flour they have? How about the

sugar? The butter?

For how many cakes

do they have enough ingredients? Write your answer in a complete sentence.

Week 9: Isabel and Ellie are twins. There were nine people in all at their sixth birthday party. The cake was cut into 20 pieces. The birthday girls ate three pieces of cake each. Each of the guests ate an equal number of pieces of cake, how many pieces did each one eat?

Week 10: Ben and Clem made 12 flowers for Valentines Day. The next day they made three times as many as they did the first day. How many flowers did they make in all?


How many guests are

at the birthday party?

How many pieces do

the guests have to share?

Write the number of pieces each guest ate in a complete sentence.

Think: They made 3 times as many the

second day. 12 X 3 =

____

Add the number

from step 1 to 12 (the

number they made the first day).

Write the total in the form of a sentence.


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asked to do.

Draw a picture or chart to

illustrate the problem.

Solve the problem.

Check your work.


Week 1 Week 2 Charlotte’s classroom is twice as long as it is wide. If it is 16 feet wide, how long is it? What is the perimeter of Charlotte’s classroom? What is the area?

A group of US astronauts have been in flight for 8,640 minutes. For how many hours have they been travelling? For how many days have they been travelling?

Week 3 Week 4 Maggie brought $21.50 (2150 cents) to the candy store to buy 8-cent lollipops for her soccer team. How many lollipops did she buy? How many cents did she have left?

The cafeteria at Carlos’ school serves 437 students each day. How many meals will the cafeteria serve in a 5-day school week? How many meals will it serve in a 178-day year?

Week 5 Week 6 In 1997, there were 267,900,000 people in the United States. The population of Brazil was 161,100,000. China’s population was 1,232,100,000, Indonesia’s was 200,500,000, and India’s was 944,600,000. These five countries were the most populated countries in the world in 1997. What was the population of these five countries altogether? How many more people lived in the US than in Brazil?

(Use the information given in week 5.) • What would the population of the US be if it

doubled? • What would the population of Indonesia be if

it was cut in half? • Locate each country on a map.

Week 7 Week 8

(Use the information given in week 5.) • Find out the most recent population of each

of the countries from week 5. • List them in order from most to least

populous. Compare this week’s list to last week’s list. Has the order changed?

• What is the current population of these five countries altogether?

(Use the information given in week 5 and your work from week 7.) • In all, how many more people live in these five

countries now than in 1997? • How many more people live in each country now

than in 1997? • Find out if these are still the five most

populous countries in the world. If not, what are the five most populous countries today?

Week 9 Week 10 Write and solve your own multi-step story problem. Follow Step 2 – Step 5 when you solve your own problem.

Write and solve your own multi-step story problem. Follow Step 2 – Step 5 when you solve your own problem.


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Math A: Geometry Each week you are given two figures that are important in geometry. In your composition book or on your paper, do the following for each of the two figures: 1. Draw the figure. 2. Write a definition, in your own words and in complete sentences. 3. Write a definition from a dictionary or math book. Then create a piece of art using the two figures. You could just use the two figures given or you could just mainly use the two figures given. Be creative!

Week 1 Week 2

square

rectangle

triangle

circle

Week 3 Week 4

oval

pentagon

octagon

rhombus

Week 5 Week 6

hexagon

decagon

heptagon

nonagon

Week 7 Week 8

right angle

intersecting lines

parallel lines

perpendicular lines

Week 9 Week 10

acute angle

obtuse angle

right triangle

trapezoid


2 feet

6 feet

5

3 inches

1 inch 4 inches

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Math B: Per imeter

Each week do the following in your composition book or on your paper: Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5

Carefully read the problem and figure out what you are

asked to do.

Draw a picture to illustrate the problem,

unless there is a picture already drawn for you.

Solve the problem.

Check your work.


Don’t forget the units (like feet or inches)!

Week 1 Week 2 Find the perimeter of the rectangle:

Find the perimeter of the triangle:

Week 3 Week 4 Find the perimeter of the square:

Find the perimeter of this figure (all the measurements are in centimeters):

Week 5 Week 6 At the Jackson house there is a garden in the shape of a rectangle that is 24 feet long and 11 feet wide. What is the perimeter of the garden at the Jackson house?

At George Washington School they have a playground in the shape of a square. It is 42 yards on each side. What is the perimeter of the playground at George Washington School?

Week 7 Week 8 Wynona’s bedroom has four walls and each one is painted a different color! She has one green wall, one blue wall, one yellow wall, and one red wall. The green and yellow walls are 15 feet long. The blue and red walls are 28 feet long. What is the perimeter of Wynona’s bedroom?

Wynona has a nice walk-in-closet in her bedroom. It is in the shape of a square. Each side is 6 feet long. What is the perimeter of her closet? What is the perimeter of her bedroom and closet together? (Hint: You have to use your work from last week.)

Week 9 Week 10 Wallace is thinking about turning a portion of his farm into an organic garden. He wants it to be in the shape of a triangle that is 10 meters by 8 meters by 6 meters. He wants to separate his organic garden from the rest of his farm, so he plans to enclose the organic garden with a fence. How many meters of fence will he need? Bonus: Find out what organic produce is.

Juan has a favorite book and he wants to figure out the perimeter of the front cover, the back cover, the spine, and the entire cover. The front cover is 8 inches long and 6 inches wide. The spine of the book is 8 inches long and 2 inches wide. What is the perimeter of the front cover? The back cover? The spine? Now what is the total perimeter? (Warning: Do not count any edge twice!)

7 yards

3 cm

4 2

1 1


17 meters

9 m

5

2 feet

6 feet

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Math C: Area

Each week do the following in your composition book or on your paper: Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5

Carefully read the problem and figure out what you are

asked to do.

Draw a picture to illustrate the problem,

unless there is a picture already drawn for you.

Solve the problem.

Check your work.


Don’t forget the units (like feet or inches)!

Week 1 Week 2 Find the area of the rectangle:

Find the area of the rectangle:

Week 3 Week 4 Find the area of the square:

Find the area of this figure (all the measurements are in centimeters): (Hint: Break the figure up into two rectangles.)

Week 5 Week 6 At Mahalia’s house there is a garden in the shape of a rectangle that is 24 feet long and 11 feet wide. What is the area of the garden at Mahalia’s house?

At Abraham Lincoln School they have a playground in the shape of a square. It is 42 yards on each side. What is the area of the playground at Abraham Lincoln School?

Week 7 Week 8 Wynona’s bedroom has four walls and each one is painted a different color! She has one green wall, one blue wall, one yellow wall, and one red wall. The green and yellow walls are 15 feet long. The blue and red walls are 28 feet long. What is the area of Wynona’s bedroom?

Wynona has a nice walk-in-closet in her bedroom. It is in the shape of a square. Each side is 6 feet long. What is the area of her closet? What is the area of her bedroom and closet together? (Hint: You have to use your work from last week.)

Week 9 Week 10 Georgia is thinking about turning a large portion of her farm into an organic garden. She wants it to be in the shape of a rectangle that is 27 meters by 18 meters. What is the area of the organic garden that Georgia wants to plant? Bonus: Find out one pro and one con for buying and eating organic produce.

Migel has to cover his math book for school. The front cover is 8 inches long and 6 inches wide. The spine of the book is 8 inches long and 2 inches wide. What is the area of the cover of Migel’s math book? (Hint: Don’t forget to include the back cover!)

7 yards

3 cm

4 2

1 1


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Math A: Sequences, Patterns, & Re lat ionsh ips

Week 1: 2, 4, 6, 8, ___ , ___

Week 2: 3, 6, 9, 12, ___ , ___ , ___

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Look at the sequence of

numbers and figure out the pattern.

Describe the pattern in a

complete sentence.

Complete the

sequence.

Look at the sequence of



complete sentence.

Complete the

sequence.

Week 3: 1, 3, 5, 7, ___ , ___ , ___

Week 4: 1, 5, 9, 13, ___ , ___ , ___




complete sentence.

Complete the

sequence.




complete sentence.

Complete the

sequence.

Week 5: 14, 12, 10, 8, ___ , ___ , ___

Week 6: 5, 10, 15, ___ , ___ , ___ , ___




complete sentence.

Complete the

sequence.




complete sentence.

Complete the

sequence.

Week 7: 90, 80, 70, 60, ___ , ___ , ___

Week 8: 100, 95, 90, 85, ___ , ___ , ___




complete sentence.

Complete the

sequence.




complete sentence.

Complete the

sequence.

Week 9: 1, 2, 4, 7, 11, ___ , ___ , ___

Week 10: 8, 9, 7, 8, 6, 7, 5, ___ , ___ , ___ , ___




complete sentence.

Complete the

sequence.




complete sentence.

Complete the

sequence.


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Math B: Sequences, Patterns, & Re lat ionsh ips

Week 1: 2 10 8 14 22

Week 2: 10 90 30 50 80

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 What do these numbers have in

common? Answer in a complete sentence.

Add a number that

fits with this group.

Think of a number that does not fit and explain.

What do these numbers have in


Add a number that



Week 3: circle square triangle rectangle

Week 4: blue pink red yellow

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 What do these words have in


Add a word that fits with this

group.

Think of a word that

does not fit and explain.

What do these words have in



group.



Week 5: 1 5 7 13 12

Week 6: 21 26 32 20 27

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Which number

does not fit with the others?

Explain in a complete

sentence why it does not fit.

Add a number that fits with

this group.

Which number does not fit

with the others?




this group.

Week 7: car bike doll bus

Week 8: tree dog bird snake lion

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Which word does not fit

with the others?



Add a word that fits with

this group.

Which word does not fit

with the others?




this group.

Week 9: 101 204 142 199 167

Week 10: 306 706 603 406 806






this group.


with the others?




this group.


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Math C: Sequences, Patterns, & Re lat ionsh ips

Week 1: 7, 9, 11, 13, ___ , ___ , ___

Week 2: 1, 11, 21, 31, ___ , ___ , ___




complete sentence.

Complete the

sequence.




complete sentence.

Complete the

sequence.

Week 3: 10, 13, 12, 15, 14, 17, 16, __ , __ , __ , __

Week 4: 2, 4, 8, 16, ___ , ___




complete sentence.

Complete the

sequence.




complete sentence.

Complete the

sequence.

Week 5: 3, 6, 12, 24, ___ , ___

Week 6: 1, 3, 9, 27, ___ , ___




complete sentence.

Complete the

sequence.




complete sentence.

Complete the

sequence.

Week 7: 1, 2, 4, 7, 11, 16, ___ , ___ , ___

Week 8: 2, 4, 12, 48, 240, ___ , ___




complete sentence.

Complete the

sequence.




complete sentence.

Complete the

sequence.

Week 9: 96, 48, 24, 12, ___ , ___

Week 10: (There is not one right answer!) apple, banana, cookie, donut, egg, __, __, __





complete sentence.

Complete the

sequence.

Look at the sequence of words.

Figure out their relationship and

the pattern.

Describe the relationship

and pattern in a complete sentence.

Complete the

sequence.


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Math D: Sequences, Patterns, & Re lat ionsh ips

Week 1: 72 102 42 2,892 2

Week 2: 62 44 71 35 800

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 What do these numbers have in


Add a number that



What do these numbers have in


Add a number that



Week 3: run play drive sing

Week 4: Washington Lincoln Jefferson

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 What do these words have in



group.



What do these words have in



group.



Week 5: 36 72 18 27 26

Week 6: 6,349 3,300 7,400 8,389






this group.


with the others?




this group.

Week 7: Hawaii Maine Mexico Alabama

Week 8: jellyfish oyster snail mussel

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Which word does not fit

with the others?




this group.


with the others?




this group.

Week 9: 4 9 13 12 25 16

Week 10: Congo Turkey Namibia Nigeria






this group.


with the others?




this group.


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Math A: Money Follow the directions given each week. Write your answers in complete sentences in your composition book or on your paper.

Week 1 Week 2 Draw a detailed and colorful picture of each US coin. Draw one picture of the front and another picture of the back.

Draw a detailed and colorful picture of four US bills. Draw one picture of the front and another picture of the back.

penny dime $1 bill $10 bill nickel quarter $5 bill $20 bill

Next to each picture, write a sentence about what appears on that side of the coin.

Next to each picture, write a sentence about what appears on that side of the bill.

Week 3 Week 4

• Of what is each of the US coins made? • Of what are our dollar bills made?

How much money would you have if you had each of the following coins: • 1 quarter, 5 dimes, 6 nickels, 3 pennies • 3 quarters, 2 dimes, 1 nickel, 6 pennies • 4 quarters, 10 dimes, 20 nickels, 100 pennies

Week 5 Week 6 Megan has $3.32 in her piggy bank, Cassie has $2.23, and Doris has $2.44. Who has the most in her piggy bank? How much do Cassie and Doris have together? How much do the three girls have in all?

Ralph has $2.13 in his piggy bank, Al has $2.64, and George has $3.12. Who has the most in his piggy bank? How much do Al and George have together? How much do the three boys have in all?

Week 7 Week 8 Your best friend has $1.36 behind her back in coins. Your job is to guess how many quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies she has. • Figure out 4 different ways she could have $1.36

in coins. • For example: She might have 4 quarters, 2

dimes, 2 nickels, and 6 pennies. • Bonus: What is the fewest number of coins she

could have? What is the most number of coins she could have?

Use supermarket advertisements to plan your grocery shopping for the week. You have $25 to spend. Cut out your choices from the advertisements and glue them onto paper or into your notebook. Make at least one choice from each food group. Add up your total. Get as close to $25 as you can without going over.

Week 9 Week 10 Pretend you just won $10 at a festival. You decide to put half of the money in the bank and spend half at a toy store. How much do you have to spend at the toy store? Which of the following purchases would you be able to make? 1. a $2.50 travel game and a $3.05 car 2. a $1.99 gel pen and a $2.99 doll 3. a 56¢ ball, a $2.23 whoopee cushion, and a $2.00

pack of Pokémon cards 4. a $3.48 joke book and a $1.20 jump rope 5. a $4.25 puzzle and a 50¢ deck of cards

• In your own words, what does the saying “save for a rainy day” mean?

• In your own words, what does the saying, “He doesn’t know the value of a dollar” mean?

• If you don’t have a savings account, ask a parent if you can start one.


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Math B: Money (Budgets ) Week 1: Money in the Real World Week 2: Budgets

Write a definition (in a complete sentence) for each word. Use each word in a good sentence. expenses, income, savings account, salary, debt,

bills, loan, credit card, deficit, surplus, tax

• What is a budget? • Talk to a parent or other adult about the

importance of having a budget and write about three reasons why budgets are good.

• What is a “balanced budget”? Week 3: Saving Money Week 4: National Budget

Saving money is hard to do and it gets harder and harder as you grow up, so it is an important habit to develop while you are young. • Why do you think it is hard to save money? • Why do you think it is important to save money? • What does the saying “save for a rainy day”

mean? • Do you have a savings account? • If you don’t already have a savings account, ask a

parent if you can start one. • For what are you saving? • Save as much money as you can this week.

The US government spends much more than it earns. This has been going on for years. The result is a HUGE national debt. • Find out what the US national debt is. • What are 1 way the government gets money? • What are 2 things on which the government

spends money?

Unlike the government, we don’t have the choice to spend money that we don’t have! If we want to buy something, we have to save for it. Saving is hard work, so it gives us a chance to decide if what we want to buy is really necessary and worth it. Usually the answer is “no!”

Week 5: Personal Budget Week 6-8: Personal Budget Over the next 4 weeks, you are going to create your own personal budget. • On your budget chart, record everything you

earn in the INCOME section (allowance, babysitting, gifts, etc.). Be sure to fill in all 3 columns: Date, Description, Amount.

• Record everything you spend in the EXPENSES section. Be sure to fill in all 3 columns: Date, Description, Amount.

• Your goal is to keep track of all your money and to save as much as possible.

• At the end of the 4 weeks, put your savings for the month in the bank.

At the end of the 4 weeks, figure out how much money you saved by doing the following: • Add up your income (everything you earned). • Add up your expenses (everything you spent). • Subtract your expenses from your income to get

your savings. (See example below.) • Fill in the blanks below the chart. • Look over your expenses. Did you waste any

money? Did you buy anything you now regret spending money on? Write about it.

• Bonus: Continue using a budget to figure out how much you earn, spend, and save. Use a special “Budget Notebook” to keep track of it all.

INCOME EXPENSES Date Description Amount Date Description Amount

11/6/00 allowance $5 11/8/00 Reese’s Cup $.60 11/19/00 shine all my mom’s shoes $4 11/24/00 Pokémon cards $1.20 12/2/00 wash dad’s car $6 12/3/00 movie $5

Total $15 Total $6.80

Between Nov. 6, 2000 and Dec. 3, 2000 I saved $8.20. ($15.00 – $6.80 = $8.20)


_____________________’s Persona l Budget

INCOME EXPENSES Date Description Amount Date Description Amount

Total Total

Between ______________ and ______________ I saved $___________. (starting date) (ending date)


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Math C: Money Around the Wor ld Follow the directions given each week. Write your answers in complete sentences in your composition book or on your paper.

Week 1: Money Around the World Week 2: Money Around the World Different countries use different kinds of money. The money in use in a certain country is called its currency. For each of the six countries, do the following: • What is its currency called? • Draw a picture of a bill or a coin in the

currency. • Find the country on a map. • What is the country’s capital?

Different countries use different kinds of money. The money in use in a certain country is called its currency. For each of the six countries, do the following: • What is its currency called? • Draw a picture of a bill or a coin in the

currency. • Find the country on a map. • What is the country’s capital?

Australia Morocco Haiti South Africa Mexico United Kingdom New Zealand Russia Canada South Korea Venezuela Israel

Week 3: Money Around the World Week 4: Money Around the World Each day business people figure out how much each country’s currency is worth. They value each one against the other currencies around the world. • How much is 1 US dollar worth in the

following currencies? (This information can be found in the business section of the newspaper. It can also be found on the Internet, at http://www.x-rates.com/tables/USD.html)

Each day business people figure out how much each country’s currency is worth. They value each one against the other currencies around the world. • How much is 1 US dollar worth in the

following currencies? (This information can be found in the business section of the newspaper. It can also be found on the Internet, at http://www.x-rates.com/tables/USD.html)

deutsche mark (Germany) lira (Italy) schilling (Austria) kroner (Norway)

franc (France) rupee (India) renminbi (China) baht (Thailand) yen (Japan) real (Brazil) dollars (Canada) pounds (Great Britain)

• Bonus: What is the capital of each country? • Bonus: What is the capital of each country?

Week 5: Money Around the World Many countries in Europe agreed to use a common currency. On January 1, 1999 these countries began to use the new common currency in banking and finance. The public in these countries continues to use their individual currencies, but in 2002 the new common currency will replace their individual ones. • What is the name of the common currency? • Which countries agreed to use it? • Which countries in Europe decided to hold on to their individual currencies instead? • How much of the common currency does it take to buy 1 US dollar?


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Math A: Charts & Graphs Each week, use the given chart to answer the questions about recent Olympic Games. Answer in complete sentences.

The Countries That Won the Most Medals at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta

Country Go ld S i l ver Bronze Tota l Un ited States 44 32 25 101 Russ i a 26 21 16 63 Germany 20 18 27 65

Ch i na 16 22 12 50 France 15 7 15 37

Week 1 1. What is the title of this chart? 2. About which Olympics is this chart?

Week 2 1. How many columns are there in the chart? 2. How many rows are there in the chart?

(Don’t include the title.) Week 3 1. List the headings of the columns. 2. How many countries are listed in this

chart? 3. What are their names?

Week 4 1. How many gold medals did the United

States win? 2. How many silver medals did the United

States win? Week 5 1. How many bronze medals did China win? 2. How many bronze medals did France win?

Week 6 1. How many medals did Russia win in all? 2. How many medals did Germany win in all?

Week 7 1. Which country won 15 gold medals? 2. Which country won 22 silver medals?

Week 8 1. Which country won the most bronze

medals? 2. Which country won the fewest silver

medals? Week 9 1. Which country won the most medals in all? 2. How many gold and silver medals did

Russia win?

Week 10 1. How many more medals did China win than

France won? 2. How many bronze medals did all five

countries win?


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Four Athletes Who Won Medals at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta Name Country Sport Go ld S i l ver Bronze Alexe i Nemov Russ i a gymnast i cs 2 1 3

Mer lene Ottey Jama ica t rack & f i e ld

0 2 1

Simona Amanar

Roman ia gymnast i cs 1 1 2

Gary Ha l l Jr . USA sw imming 2 2 0

Week 1 1. What is the title of this chart? 2. How many columns are there in the chart? 3. How many rows are there in the chart? (Don’t

include the title row.)

Week 2 1. About which Olympics is this information? 2. How many athletes are listed in this chart? 3. What are their names? 4. List the headings of the columns.

Week 3 1. How many athletes in this chart competed in

gymnastics? 2. What are their names?

Week 4 1. How many gold medals did Alexei Nemov win? 2. How many silver medals did he win? 3. How many bronze medals did he win?

Week 5 1. From what country is Gary Hall Jr.? 2. In what sport did he compete?

Week 6 1. Which athlete is from Jamaica? 2. In what sport did she compete?

Week 7 1. How many silver medals did Merlene Ottey win? 2. How many silver medals did Simona Amanar

win? 3. How many gold medals did the swimmer win?

Week 8 1. How many bronze medals did the athlete

from Romania win? 2. Who won two bronze medals?

Week 9 1. Which athlete won three bronze medals? 2. Which athlete did not win any bronze medals? 3. Which athlete did not win any gold medals? 4. Which athlete won the most bronze medals? 5. How many medals did Simona Amanar win in all?

Week 10 1. Which athletes won one silver medal? 2. How many medals did the swimmer win in all? 3. Which athlete won the most medals? 4. From what country is he? 5. How many athletes won an equal number of

gold and silver medals? What are their names?


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Math C: Charts & Graphs Each week, use the two given charts to answer the questions about recent Olympic Games. Answer in complete sentences.

Winners of the Gold Medal of the Men’s Team Sports at the 1996 Summer Olympics in

Atlanta

Winners of the Gold Medal of the Women’s Team Sports at the 1996 Summer Olympics in

Atlanta Sport Champion Sport Champion Baseball Cuba Basketball United States Basketball United States Field Hockey Australia Field Hockey Netherlands Handball Denmark Handball Croatia Soccer United States Soccer Nigeria Softball United States Volleyball Netherlands Volleyball Cuba Water Polo Spain

Week 1 1. What is the title of the chart on the left? 2. What is the title of the chart on the right?

Week 2 1. Where is Atlanta? 2. From what year is this information?

Week 3 1. Who was the men’s baseball champion? 2. Who was the women’s softball champion?

Week 4 1. Who won the women’s volleyball gold medal? 2. Who won the men’s handball gold medal?

Week 5 1. In what team sport did Croatia win a gold

medal? 2. In what team sport did Spain win a gold medal? 3. On what continent is the men’s soccer

champion?

Week 6 1. Who were the two field hockey champions? 2. In what team sport was Denmark the

champion? 3. How many team gold medals did Cuba win? 4. What did they win?

Week 7 1. In how many team sports did the United States

men win the gold medal? 2. What did they win?

Week 8 1. In how many team sports did the United 2. States women win the gold medal? 3. What did they win?

Week 9 1. How many team sports did the United States

win in all? 2. Is it possible to find out who won the silver

medals from these charts? Why or why not?

Week 10 1. What sports do the men play in the Summer

Olympics that the women do not? 2. What sports do the women play in the

Summer Olympics that the men do not?


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Gold

Silver

Bronze

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Week 1 Top Medal Winners at the 1996 Summer

Olympics in Atlanta

Week 2 Total Number of Olympic Medals Won by

Select US Athletes through 1999

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total Athlete Sport Number of Medals

USA 44 32 25 101 Shannon Miller gymnastics 7 Russia 26 21 16 63 Carl Lewis track/field 10

Germany 20 18 27 65 Bonnie Blair speed skating 6

China 16 22 12 50 Jenny Thompson swimming 6

1. What is the title of this chart? 2. How many silver medals did Russia win? 3. Which country won a total of 50 medals? 4. Which country won the most bronze medals? 5. How many medals did the United States win?

1. Of these four athletes, who won the most medals?

2. How many medals did Shannon Miller win? 3. In what sport does Jenny Thompson compete? 4. Does this chart say anything about medals won

in the 2000 Summer Olympics? Why or why not?

Week 3 Total Number of Olympic Medals Won By Bjørn

Dählie through 1998

Week 4 Total Number of Medals Won by Canada in the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer

1. What does this graph tell us? 2. How many gold medals did Dählie win? 3. How many silver medals? How many bronze? 4. How many medals did Dählie win in all? 5. Can you determine from this information the

number of Olympics in which Dählie competed? Fun fact: Dählie is from Norway and he won his medals in cross country skiing.

1. What kind of graph is this? 2. What is the title of this graph? 3. How many gold medals did Canada win in

1994? 4. How many of Canada’s medals were bronze? 5. Canada won six of one type of medal. What

type was it? Bonus: Where is Lillehammer?

0 2 4 6 8 10

Gold

Silver

Bronze


Total Numer of Countries Participating in the Summer Olympics

140 159 172197

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Los Angeles1984

Seoul1988

Barcelona1992

Atlanta1996

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Week 5 Top Medal Winners at the 1994 Winter

Olympics in Nagano

Week 6 All-Time Leading Medal Winners at a Single

Summer Olympics (Men) Country Gold Silver Bronze Total Name Country Year Sport G S B

Germany 12 9 8 29 A. Dityatin

Soviet Union

1980 Gymnastics 3 4 1

Norway 10 10 5 25 Mark Spitz USA 1976 Swimming 7 0 0

Russia 9 6 3 18 Willis Lee USA 1920 Shooting 5 1 1

Canada 6 5 4 15 Matt Biondi USA 1988 Swimming 5 1 1

1. Which country won four bronze medals? 2. Which country won an equal number of gold

and silver medals? 3. How many medals did Russia and Canada win

together? 4. Who won the most medals? How many did

they win? Bonus: Where is Nagano?

(NOTE: G = gold, S = silver, B = bronze) 1. What is the title of this chart? 2. How many gold medals did Mark Spitz win? 3. In what year did Matt Biondi win 1 bronze

medal? 4. From what country is A. Dityatin? 5. In what sport did Willis Lee participate? 6. Who won the most medals? How many did he

win?

Week 7

1. What is the title of this graph? 2. What type of graph is it? 3. What does the x-axis (horizontal axis)

represent? What about the y-axis? 4. Where were the 1988 Summer Olympics

held? How many countries participated? 5. In what year did 172 countries participate? 6. When and where did the most number of

countries participate? 7. How many countries participated in 1984? 8. How many more countries participated in

1996 than in 1992? Bonus: Where is Seoul? Where is Barcelona?


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Mathemat ic ians 1 Each week a scientist is listed. On your paper or in your composition book answer the following: 1. When was he born? 2. If she is already dead, when did she die? 3. Where does he (or did he) live? 4. Why is she important to the field of mathematics? Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2

Pythagoras Theano

Week 3 Week 4

Archimedes P lato

Week 5 Week 6

Seki Kowa Eucl id

Week 7 Week 8

Sophie Germain Elena Lucrezia Cornaro

P iscop ia

Week 9 Week 10

René Descartes Emi l ie du Chatelet


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Mathemat ic ians 2 Each week a scientist is listed. On your paper or in your composition book answer the following: 1. When was he born? 2. If she is already dead, when did she die? 3. Where does he (or did he) live? 4. Why is she important to the field of mathematics? Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2

John von Neumann Maria Gaetana Agnes i

Week 3 Week 4

Sophia Kovalevskaya Leonardo Fibonacc i

Week 5 Week 6

Bla ise Pascal Johann Car l Fr iedr ich

Gauss

Week 7 Week 8

Mary Everest Boole P ierre de Fermat

Week 9 Week 10

Gottfr ied Leibn iz Sir Isaac Newton


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Science Homework

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Zoo logy 1: D inosaurs On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2

• What is your favorite dinosaur? • Why is it your favorite? • Draw a picture of this dinosaur.

• Find out three interesting facts about the Tyrannosaurus rex.

• Draw a picture of one.

Week 3 Week 4

• Find out three interesting facts about the Iguanodon.


• Find out three interesting facts about the Allosaurus.


Week 5 Week 6

• Find out three interesting facts about the Stegasaurus.


• Find out three interesting facts about the Brontosaurus.


Week 7 Week 8

• What is a carnivore? • What is an herbivore? • What is an omnivore?

• Name as many carnivore dinosaurs as you can.

• Name as many herbivore dinosaurs as you can.

• Name as many omnivore dinosaurs as you can.

Week 9 Week 10 • How do scientists learn about

dinosaurs? • Into what group of vertebrates do

dinosaurs fit? Fun fact: The smallest dinosaur was the Compsognathus. How small was it?

• In what era did dinosaurs roam the Earth?

• Into what three periods is this era divided?

Fun fact: The largest dinosaur was the Brachiosaurus. How large was it?


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Zoo logy 2: C lass i f i cat i on System On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2 In order to keep track of living things, like animals, scientists came up with a classification system that includes seven categories that get smaller and smaller. Living things are put into these categories with other living things because they have things in common with each other. • What are the names of the seven

categories? List them in order from biggest to smallest.

The largest category in the classification system is Kingdom. Kingdoms are huge groups. Each one has millions of living things in it. • How many kingdoms are there? • What are the names of the kingdoms?

Week 3 Week 4 Give an example of a group that fits each of the seven categories. Write your answers in a chart like this one:

Category Example Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus

The smallest category in the classification system is called Species. Species are tiny groups. • Find out if a Golden Retriever and a

Dalmation are in the same species. Fun fact: There are over 2,000,000 animal species!

Species Week 5 Week 6

Give an example of two animals that belong to the same phylum.

Give an example of two animals that belong to the same class.

Week 7 Week 8

Give an example of two animals that belong to the same order.

Give an example of two animals that belong to the same family.

Week 9 Week 10

Give an example of two animals that belong to the same genus.

Give an example of two animals that belong to the same species.


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Zoo logy 3: Vertebrates & Invertebrates On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2 • What are vertebrates? • List as many vertebrates as you can. • What are invertebrates? • List as many invertebrates as you can. Fun fact: Most animals are invertebrates.

• Vertebrates are split into five groups. • Name the five groups of vertebrates. Fun fact: There are about 40,000 species of vertebrates.

Week 3 Week 4

Describe each of the five groups of vertebrates in one or two sentences.

• List three examples in each of the five groups of vertebrates.

• Draw a picture of one animal from each of the five groups of vertebrates.

Week 5 Week 6

• Invertebrates are split into six groups. • Name the six groups of invertebrates.

Describe each of the six groups of invertebrates in one or two sentences.

Week 7 Week 8 Make a chart with two columns with the headings: Vertebrate, and Invertebrate. Decide if each animal is a vertebrate or an invertebrate. Then write the animal in the right column.

turtle alligator oyster starfish

bumble bee flatworm

• List one example in each of the six groups of invertebrates.

• Draw a picture of one animal from each of the six groups of invertebrates.

great white shark toad Week 9 Week 10 Decide what type of vertebrate each animal is: Decide what type of vertebrate each animal is:

tortoise salamander ostrich mouse crocodile robin platypus penguin kangaroo rattlesnake owl seal

whale lizard dolphin chameleon


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Zoo logy 4: Mammals On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2 • What are mammals? • Find out four interesting facts about

mammals. • List as many mammals as you can.

• Choose two mammals. • Draw pictures of these mammals. • Under each picture write the name of the

mammal, where it lives, and what it eats. Week 3 Week 4

Find a mammal that lives on each continent. Try to find a picture of each one. Write your answers in a chart like this one:

Continent Mammal

• What do mammals feed their babies? • Are mammals warm- or cold-blooded? • Choose one mammal and find out five

interesting facts about it.

Week 5 Week 6 • Name as many mammals as you can that live in

water. • Name a mammal that flies. • Name a mammal that lays eggs. • Name a nocturnal mammal. • Name a primate. • Name two mammals that are carnivores. • Name two mammals that are herbivores. • Name two mammals that are omnivores.

• What are marsupials? • List five examples of marsupials. • Where do your five marsupials live? • Draw a picture of one of your marsupials.

Week 7 Week 8

• What are rodents? • List five examples of rodents. • Draw a picture of one of your rodents.

Write a short story about mammals. Give your story a title and illustrate it. Fun fact: The blue whale is the largest mammal in the world.

Week 9 Week 10 The male chicken is called a rooster, the female is called a hen, and the baby chicken is called a chick. For each animal listed, find out what the male, the female, and the baby is called.

deer sheep cattle bear

• Find the names of 10 endangered mammals. • Find the names of 5 extinct mammals.

horse lion


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Zoo logy 5: F i sh On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2

• What are fish? • Find out four interesting facts about

fish. • List as many fish as you can.

• Choose two fish. • Draw pictures of these fish. • Under each picture write the name of

the fish, where it lives, and what it eats.

Week 3 Week 4 • Are most fish warm- or cold-blooded? • Choose one fish and find out five


• Name five fish that live in freshwater. • Name five fish that live in saltwater.

Week 5 Week 6 • Name three fish that live in cold water. • Name three fish that live in warm

water.

• How do fish swim? • How do fish breathe?

Week 7 Week 8 Name one fish that lives in each of these bodies of water. Then find out what the fish eats and who its predators are. • Mississippi River • Amazon River • Atlantic Ocean • Pacific Ocean • Arctic Ocean • Lake Superior • Mediterranean

Sea • Gulf of Mexico

Write a short story about fish. Give your story a title and illustrate it. Fun fact: The sailfish can swim 68 miles per hour. That’s about as fast as a car drives on the highway!

Week 9 Week 10

Find the names of 5 endangered fish.

• Name four fish that live in the Great Barrier Reef.

• What does each of these fish eat? • Who are the predators of each of

these fish?


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Zoo logy 6: B i rds On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2

• What are birds? • Find out four interesting facts about

birds. • List as many birds as you can.

• Choose two birds. • Draw pictures of these birds. • Under each picture write the name of

the bird, where it lives, and what it eats.

Week 3 Week 4

• How are birds different from other vertebrates?

• Are birds warm- or cold-blooded? • Choose one bird and find out five


Many birds live in the rain forest. • Name five birds that live in the

Amazon rain forest. • Draw a colorful picture of each one. • Under each picture write the name of

the bird and one interesting fact about it.

Week 5 Week 6 • Name a nocturnal bird. • Name a bird that cannot fly. • Name a bird in New Zealand that

cannot fly. • Name a bird that can swim underwater.

• What birds can be found in your area? • What is your state bird?

Week 7 Week 8 • How fast can a roadrunner run? • What does a flamingo eat? • Name a bird that is a carnivore. • Name a bird that is an herbivore. Fun fact: There are nearly 40 muscles in a bird’s wing.

Write a short story about birds. Give your story a title and illustrate it.

Week 9 Week 10 • Find the names of 10 endangered birds. • Find the names of 5 extinct birds.

Many birds migrate. What does that mean?


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Zoo logy 7: Rept i l es On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2

• What are reptiles? • Find out four interesting facts about reptiles. • List as many reptiles as you can.

• Choose two reptiles. • Draw pictures of these reptiles. • Under each picture write the name of the

reptile, where it lives, and what it eats. Week 3 Week 4

Reptiles are usually found in warm climates because they need the heat from the sun for energy. • Name two reptiles found in each of these

places: • North America • Africa

• How do reptiles breathe? • Do reptiles have hair? • Are reptiles warm- or cold-blooded? • Name three lizards. • Choose one reptile and find out five interesting

facts about it. • South America • Australia

Week 5 Week 6 Snakes hibernate in the winter. • What does it mean to hibernate? • Name another reptile that hibernates in the

winter.

• Name a reptile that adapts to its surroundings by changing the color of its skin.

• What is this process called? • Why do they do this?

Week 7 Week 8 People often mix up crocodiles and alligators. • What is the difference between an alligator

and a crocodile? Fun fact: The saltwater crocodile is the largest reptile in the world.

Write a short story about reptiles. Give your story a title and illustrate it.

Week 9 Week 10 Some snakes are poisonous and some are not. Make a chart with two columns with the headings: Poisonous and Not Poisonous. Decide if each snake in the list is poisonous or not. Then write it in the correct column.

rattlesnake cobra python boa constrictor

garter snake copperhead coral snake viper

• Find the names of 5 endangered reptiles. • Find the names of 10 extinct reptiles.

(Remember, dinosaurs are reptiles.)

Bonus: Find out where each of these snakes lives.


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Zoo logy 8: Amph ib ians On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2 • What are amphibians? • Find out four interesting facts about

amphibians. • List as many amphibians as you can.

• Choose two amphibians. • Draw pictures of these amphibians. • Under each picture write the name of the

amphibian, where it lives, and what it eats. Week 3 Week 4 • Are amphibians warm- or cold-blooded? • Do you think you would find an amphibian in

snow-covered Antarctica? Why or why not? • Choose one amphibian and find out five


• Where do amphibians live: on land, in water, or both?

• How do amphibians breathe? • How do most amphibians protect themselves

from predators? Week 5 Week 6

How are toads different from frogs? Find out as many ways as you can.

Amphibians are found all over the world near water. Often they are found on shores and in marshes and ponds. • How are amphibians different from reptiles? • How are amphibians different from fish? Fun fact: Amphibians stay close to water because their skin is very sensitive and can quickly become dehydrated.

Week 7 Week 8 Find a frog and a salamander that lives on each continent, except Antarctica. Try to find a picture of each one. Write your answers in a chart like this one:

Continent Frog Salamander

Write a short story about amphibians. Give your story a title and illustrate it. Fun fact: The Japanese giant salamander is the largest amphibian in the world.

Week 9 Week 10

Find the names of 5 endangered amphibians.

• What is a life cycle? • What is a tadpole? • What is the life cycle of a frog? • Illustrate the life cycle of a frog.


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Zoo l ogy 9 : Inver tebrates On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2 • What are invertebrates? • Find out four interesting facts about

invertebrates. • List as many invertebrates as you can.

• Choose two invertebrates. • Draw pictures of these invertebrates. • Under each picture write the name of the

invertebrate, where it lives, and what it eats. Week 3: Week 4

• Into what groups are the invertebrates divided?

• Name an animal from each group and draw a picture of it.

• What kind of invertebrate is a starfish? • Find an interesting fact about a starfish. • What kind of invertebrate is a jellyfish? • Find an interesting fact about a jellyfish. • What kind of invertebrate is an earthworm? • Find an interesting fact about an earthworm.

Week 5 Week 6 Insects, arachnids, and crustaceans are arthropods. • Name as many insects as you can. • Find an interesting fact about one of your

insects. • Name four arachnids as you can. • Find an interesting fact about one of your

arachnids. • Name three crustaceans. • Find an interesting fact about one of your

crustaceans.

• From where does honey come? • With the help of your parents, make

something that has honey in it. Fun fact: A bee has to visit about 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey!

Week 7 Week 8:

• What is molting? • Can you name an insect that goes through

this process? • Try to kind a picture of this insect.

There are more than 50,000 species of mollusks. • What are mollusks? • Name eight mollusks. Fun fact: Giant clams can live for more than 200 years.

Week 9 Week 10

Write a short story about invertebrates. Give your story a title and illustrate it.

• What is a life cycle? • What is the life cycle of a butterfly? • Illustrate the life cycle of a butterfly.


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Zoo logy 10: A l i ke and D ifferent On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2

1. How are reptiles and amphibians alike? 2. How are vertebrates and invertebrates

different? 3. How are birds and mammals alike? 4. How are a frog and a tuna different?

5. How are a tortoise and a parakeet alike? 6. How are a jellyfish and a salmon different? 7. How are a manatee and a monkey alike? 8. How are a centipede and a snake different?

Week 3 Week 4

9. How are a ladybug and a fly alike? 10. How are a lobster and an oyster different? 11. How are a crab and a beetle alike? 12. How are a crab and a beetle different?

13. How are a platypus and a tiger alike? 14. How are a platypus and a tiger different? 15. How are an octopus and a sea horse alike? 16. How are an octopus and a sea horse

different?

Week 5 Week 6

17. How are a platypus and a stork alike? 18. How are a platypus and a stork different? 19. How are a penguin and a robin alike? 20. How are a penguin and a robin different?

21. How are a whale and a shark alike? 22. How are a whale and a shark different? 23. How are goldfish and barracudas alike? 24. How are goldfish and barracudas different?

Week 7 Week 8 25. How are a deer and a lion alike? 26. How are a deer and a lion different? 27. How are humans and weasels alike? 28. How are humans and weasels different? (Hint: Think about what these animals eat.)

29. How are a snail and a scallop alike? 30. How are a clam and a starfish different? 31. How are a garter snake and a rattlesnake

alike? 32. How are a garter snake and a rattlesnake

different? Week 9 Week 10

33. How are a kangaroo and a camel alike? 34. How are a kangaroo and a camel different? 35. How are a kangaroo and an opossum alike? 36. How are a kangaroo and an opossum

different?

37. How are an owl and a squirrel alike? 38. How are an owl and a squirrel different? 39. How are a gorilla and an elephant alike? 40. How are a gorilla and an elephant different?


Sc ience: Zoo logy 10 Answers Week 1 Week 2 1. Both reptiles and amphibians are cold-blooded

vertebrates. 2. Vertebrates are animals that have backbones,

but invertebrates are animals that do not have backbones.

3. Both birds and mammals are warm-blooded vertebrates.

4. A frog is an amphibian, but a tuna is a fish.

5. Both tortoises and parakeets are vertebrates. 6. A jellyfish is an invertebrate (coelenterate), but

a salmon is a vertebrate (fish). 7. Both manatees and monkeys are mammals. 8. A centipede is an invertebrate (arthropod), but a

snake is a vertebrate (reptile).

Week 3 Week 4 1. Both ladybugs and flies are insects, arthropods,

and invertebrates. 2. A lobster is an arthropod, but an oyster is a

mollusk. 3. Both crabs and beetles are arthropods and

invertebrates. 4. A beetle is an insect, but a crab is not.

5. A platypus and a tiger are mammals and vertebrates.

6. A platypus lays eggs, but a tiger does not. 7. Both an octopus and a sea horse live in saltwater. 8. An octopus is an invertebrate, but a sea horse is

a vertebrate.

Week 5 Week 6

9. A platypus and a stork are vertebrates that lay eggs.

10. A platypus is a mammal and a stork is a bird. 11. Penguins and robins are birds and vertebrates. 12. A penguin cannot fly, but a robin can.

13. Both whales and sharks are vertebrates that live in the water.

14. Whales are mammals, but sharks are fish. 15. Goldfish and barracudas are fish and

vertebrates. 16. Goldfish live in freshwater, but barracudas live in

saltwater. Week 7 Week 8

17. Deer and lions are mammals and vertebrates. 18. Deer are herbivores and lions are carnivores. 19. Humans and weasels are mammals and

vertebrates. 20. Humans are omnivores and weasels are

carnivores.

29. Snails and scallops are both mollusks and invertebrates

30. Clams are mollusks, but starfish are echinoderms.

31. Garter snakes and rattlesnakes are both snakes and vertebrates.

32. Garter snakes are harmless, but rattlesnakes are poisonous.

Week 9 Week 10 33. Kangaroos and camels are mammals and

vertebrates. 34. Kangaroos are marsupials (animals that carry

their young in an outside pouch), but camels are not marsupials.

35. Both kangaroos and opossums are marsupials, mammals, and vertebrates.

36. Kangaroos live in the South Pacific, but opossums live in the Americas. OR Kangaroos are diurnal (active during the day), but opossums are nocturnal (active at night).

37. Owls and squirrels are vertebrates and live in trees.

38. Owls are birds, but squirrels are mammals. OR Owls are nocturnal (active at night), but squirrels are diurnal (active during the day).

39. Gorillas and elephants are both mammals and vertebrates.

40. Gorillas are bipeds (they walk on two legs), but elephants are quadrupeds (they walk on four feet). OR Gorillas are primates, but elephants are not.


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Zoo logy 11 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2 • What is a scientist who studies animals

called? • Find the name of a famous one. • Why is he or she famous?

• What are herbivores? • What are carnivores? • What are omnivores?

Week 3 Week 4 Name as many animals as you can that fit into the category. 1. herbivores 2. carnivores 3. omnivores

Name as many animals as you can that fit into the category. 1. birds that cannot fly 2. mammals that live in the water 3. animals that feed their young milk

Week 5 Week 6 Name as many animals as you can that fit into the category. 1. animals that hatch from shells 2. two-legged animals 3. cold-blooded animals

Name as many animals as you can that fit into the category. 1. nocturnal animals 2. endangered birds 3. endangered mammals

Week 7 Week 8 Name as many animals as you can that fit into the category. 1. marsupials 2. mammals that lay eggs 3. primates

Name as many animals as you can that fit into the category. 1. fish that live in fresh water 2. fish that live in salt water 3. animals that live on farms

Week 9 Week 10

Name as many animals as you can that fit into the category. 1. animals that live in the desert 2. animals that live in rain forests 3. animals that you might see on a safari

Name as many animals as you can that fit into the category. 1. animals that live in the Australian

outback 2. animals that live in polar regions 3. warm-blooded animals


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Bo ta ny 1 : P l a n t s

On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Plant Scientist Week 2: Plants Plants have adapted to climates around the world, from the hottest dessert to the iciest tundra. What kind of plant might you find in each of these places:

• What is a scientist who studies plants called?

• Name a famous one. • Why is she or he famous?

• tropical island • desert • mountain

• prairie • rainforest • deciduous forest

Week 3: Food Web Week 4: Food Web

• As far as food goes, what is the biggest difference between plants and animals?

• What are the three main things that green plants need to make food?

• What is this process called? • Bonus: Describe this process.

Plants and animals are dependent on each other for survival. Animals, including people, need plants for food. Also we would not be able to breathe without plants, and plants could not make food without people. • What gas do plants take from the air? • From where does most of this gas come? • What gas do plants release into the air? • Who needs this gas?

Week 5: Greenhouses Week 6: Leaves

• What is a greenhouse? • Have you ever visited a greenhouse? • What was the temperature like?

• What are the three main parts of a plant? • What pigment makes most leaves green? • What happens to the leaves of deciduous trees? • Bonus: What substance flows through the veins

of a leaf? Week 7: Importance of Plants Week 8: Flowering Plants

Aside from food and oxygen, what else do humans get from plants? Fun fact: Once 14 leaves were found on a clover!

Plants are either flowering plants or non-flowering plants. Examples of groups of non-flowering plants are: algae, seaweed, mosses, and ferns. Grasses, shrubs, herbs, and trees are flowering plants. • Find a picture of a fern and a flowering herb. • List three interesting facts about each one.

Week 9: Flowering Plants Week 10: Interesting Plants Name a plant that fits in each category: • Look through a book about flowers. Choose your

five favorites. • Make a chart that includes: the name, a picture,

and one interesting fact. • Pick one of the flowers to grow in a garden or

flowerpot.

• traps insects • produces rubber for

tires • climbs

• protects itself with thorns

• stores water in its leaves


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Bo ta ny 2 : F r u i t s , Vege tab l e s , a nd Gra i n s


Week 1: Fruit or Vegetable Week 2: Fruits Decide if each plant below is a fruit or a vegetable. Make a chart with two columns with the headings: Fruit and Vegetable. Then write each in the correct column. • grape • apricot • carrot

• spinach • banana • potato

• pear • corn • pumpkin

• Name as many fruits as you can. • Draw a colorful picture of each one. • Bonus: Find out when each fruit on your list is in

season. Fun fact: Some people call a tomato a fruit and some call it a vegetable. It is actually a fruit, but in 1893, the Supreme Court ruled to make it a vegetable!

Week 3: Fruits Week 4: Fruits

A fruit is a flowering plant that contains a seed or many seeds. • Describe the seeds in an apple. • How many seeds does the nectarine have? • Describe it or them.

Once the seeds of a fruit are fertilized, they grow and develop into the fruit. The seeds of soft and juicy fruits are spread by animals. The seeds of hard and dry fruits are spread by the wind, • Name three soft and juicy fruits. • Name three hard and dry fruits.

Week 5: Vegetables Week 6: Vegetables • Name as many vegetables as you can. • Draw a colorful picture of each one. • Bonus: Find out when each vegetable on your list

is in season.

Root vegetables are ones that are grown mostly for their edible roots. • Name three root vegetables. • Draw a picture of each vegetable in your list.

Week 7: Grains Week 8: Fruit Trees Grains are plants that provide us with carbohydrates, protein, and vitamins. Grain is the main food of man and of domestic animals. • List four grains. • Draw a picture of each one.

Many of our fruits come from trees. • What fruits come from trees? • Draw a picture of a fruit tree. Fun fact: Every year Americans eat about 632 pounds of fruits and vegetables!

Week 9: Farming Week 10: Farming

• What is a farm? • Name five jobs that a farmer would likely

have to do.

Even though farming provides us with most of our food, it can be harmful to the environment. It takes up a lot of land that might once have been for forests and wild animals. Also many farms use chemical pesticides that cause pollution. • Why are pesticides used? • What kind of a farm doesn’t use chemical

pesticides? • Why do you think it is important to wash fruits

and vegetables before eating them?


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Botany 3 : Trees On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Trees Week 2: Trees • What is a scientist who studies trees called? • Name as many trees as you can. • Draw a picture of each one. Fun fact: The redwood tree in California is the tallest living tree. It is about the same height as the Apollo rocket!

• Why are trees important? List ten ways trees are important to people and animals. (Hint: Think of what you can get from trees)

• How do you tell the age of a tree? Fun fact: Deciduous trees shed their leaves to save water.

Week 3: Nuts Week 4: Definitions

Many trees produce nuts or seeds. List at least five nuts and the trees from which they come.

• What is a deciduous tree? • What is a coniferous tree? • What is an evergreen tree? • What is sap?

Week 5: Deciduous Trees Week 6: Trees in Your Area • Name as many deciduous trees as you can. • Find out where each tree in your list is grown. • Draw a picture of the leaf of each tree in your

list. Write your answers in a chart like this one: Deciduous Tree Location Leaf

• Many states have a state tree. Does your state have one? If so, what is it?

• What trees do you have in your yard? • What trees grow well in your climate?

Week 7: Trees Around the US Week 8: Trees Around the World Find a tree that is common in the following states and try to find a picture of each one:

Find a tree that is common in the following countries and try to find a picture of each one:

State Tree Country Tree Washington New Zealand California Brazil Louisiana Australia

Ohio Norway Week 9: Forests Week 10: Forests • What is a forest? There are three levels in a forest: a canopy (the top), an under story (the middle), and the floor (the bottom). Different plants and animals are found in different parts. • Which part do you think gets the most sunlight? • Where are you likely to find moss?

There are different types of forests. Some examples are: rainforests, tropical forests, deciduous forests, and coniferous forests. Different plants and animals live in different types of forests. • Name a plant and an animal that lives in the four

types of forests that are underlined.


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B io l ogy 1 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Biologists Week 2: Microscopes

• What does a biologist study? • Name a famous biologist. • Why is he or she famous?

• What is a microscope? • When was it invented? • Draw a picture of a microscope.

Week 3: Living and Non-Living Things Week 4: Cells

• Name five living things. • Name five non-living things.

• What is a cell? • Draw a picture of a cell.

Week 5: Body Systems Week 6: The Senses • Name as many systems in the body as

you can. • What is the job of the bones? • What is the job of the muscles? • What is the job of the skin?

• What are the five senses? • Imagine what life would be like

without one of your senses. Write a short story called:

Life Without the Sense of ________ Week 7: Bacteria and Viruses Week 8: Disease • What is a virus? • What are bacteria? • What are germs? • Why is it important to be clean? Fun fact: Not all bacteria are bad. Bacteria are important in the production of cheese, yogurt, and vinegar.

• What is a disease? • Name three diseases. • What system in the body fights

disease?

Week 9: Vaccinations Week 10: Penicillin

• What is a vaccination? • Ask your parents what vaccinations

you have had.

• What is penicillin? • Who invented it? • When was it invented?


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B io l ogy 2: Body Systems On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: The Digestive Systems Week 2: The Circulatory System

• What is the job of the digestive system?

• Name the organs that work together in the digestive system.

• What is the job of the circulatory system?

• Name the organs that work together in the circulatory system.

Week 3: The Respiratory System Week 4: The Urinary System

• What is the job of the respiratory system?

• Name the organs that work together in the respiratory system.

• What is the job of the urinary system?

• Name the organs that work together in the urinary system.

Week 5: The Muscular System Week 6: The Nervous System

• What is the job of the muscular system?

• Name the parts that work together in the muscular system.

• What is the job of the nervous system?

• Name the organs that work together in the nervous system.

Week 7: The Skeletal System Week 8: The Immune System

• What is the job of the skeletal system?

• Name the parts that work together in the skeletal system.

• What is the job of the immune system?

• Name the parts that work together in the immune system.

Week 9: The Endocrine System Week 10: The Reproductive System

• What is the job of the endocrine system?

• Name the parts that work together in the endocrine system.

• What is the job of the reproductive system?

• Name the parts that work together in the reproductive system.


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B io l ogy 3: Organs Each week, an organ in the body is listed. In your composition book or on your paper, do the following: 1. Draw a picture of the organ. 2. What does this organ do? 3. Of what body system is this organ a part? 4. List one interesting fact about this organ. 5. Bonus: What disease could affect this organ? Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2

Heart Stomach

Week 3 Week 4

Lungs Kidneys

Week 5 Week 6

Brain Skin

Week 7 Week 8:

Liver Spina l Cord

Week 9 Week 10

Intest ines Bladder


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B i o l o gy 4 : The Human Body On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2 • Which system in the body transports blood? • Which system gives the body shape? • Which system fights against disease? • Which system breaks down food?

• Which system controls movement of the body? • Which system brings air into the body? • Into what is food broken down? • Why does the body need food?

Week 3 Week 4

• What do people breath out? • Which system eliminates waste from the body? • Which system sends and receives messages in

the body? • What does the central nervous system include?

• Into what group of animals do humans fit? • How many chambers does the human heart

have? • Are humans warm-blooded or cold-blooded? • What is the job of red blood cells? • What is the job of white blood cells?

Week 5 Week 6

• The skin has two main layers. • What are they called? • Describe each layer. Fun fact: You will shed about 40 pounds of skin in your lifetime!

There are regions on the tongue that have taste buds that detect different flavors: sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. • Draw a picture of the tongue. Color the sweet

taste buds pink, the sour taste buds yellow, the bitter taste buds green, and the salty taste buds blue.

Week 7 Week 8

• What is a food that tastes sweet? • What is a food that tastes sour? • What is a food that tastes bitter? • What is a food that tastes salty?

• How many bones are in a human skeleton? • Name five of these bones and describe where

they are. • Draw a picture of each of these bones. Fun fact: The femur is the longest and strongest bone.

Week 9 Week 10

Humans have two sets of teeth. • What are teeth? • When did you lose your first tooth? • How many teeth are in an adult mouth?

There are four types of teeth: canines, molars, premolars, and incisors. Each type has a different job. • What does each of the four types do? • Draw a diagram of the teeth, showing where

the canines, molars, premolars, and incisors are.


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Hea lth 1: Nutr i t i on Part 1 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Food Groups Week 2: Grains No single food can provide you with all the nutrients your body needs to grow and stay healthy. That is why it important to eat a variety of foods each day. • What are the different food groups in

the food pyramid? • How many servings should we eat from

each group each day?

• List five examples of foods that fit in the Grains Group.

• Bonus: Give an example of a “serving size” for one of the foods in your list.

Week 3: Fruits & Vegetables Week 4: Dairy

• List ten examples of foods that fit in the Fruits & Vegetables Group.


• List five examples of foods that fit in the Dairy Group.


Fun fact: Ice cream does have a lot of nutrients but, unfortunately, it also is loaded with sugar and fat.

Week 5: Meat & Beans Week 6: Food Groups

• List five examples of foods that fit in the Meat & Beans Group.


Fun fact: Some foods fit in more than one group. A serving of beans and peas can be counted in the vegetable group OR the meat group, but not both!

Make a colorful poster of the food pyramid. Include: • the number of servings we should eat

from each group each day, and • three foods that belong in each group

with pictures. Fun fact: Water cleans your bloodstream and the cells in your body. It is very good to drink at least 8 glasses of water each day.


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Hea lth 1: Nutr i t i on Part 2 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 7: Junk Food vs. Smart Food Week 8: Junk Food vs. Smart Food Make a chart with two columns with the headings: Junk Food and Smart Food. Decide if each food below is junk food or smart food. Then write it in the correct column.

Make a chart with two columns with the headings: Junk Food and Smart Food. Decide if each food below is junk food or smart food. Then write it in the correct column.

• coke • banana • fruit juice • ice cream • pretzels • raisins

• apple • yogurt • whole

wheat bread

• peanuts

• cookies • imitation

fruit juice • cheese • potato

chips

• milk • sugar

cereal • peanut

butter sandwich

• cake • crackers

with cheese

• oatmeal • orange • fast food

• carrots • water • French

fries • baked

potato

Week 9: Daily Nutrients Make a large chart with 5 columns: Grains, Vegetables & Fruits, Dairy, Meat & Beans, Sweets. • Keep a diary of what you eat and drink for two days. • At the end of each day, add up your servings for the day and check if you ate enough

from the 4 food groups. • How many sweets did you eat each day? Remember, you shouldn’t eat many sweets! • Bonus: Keep a food diary for the whole week. At the end of each day check how you

did in each group. Week 10: Daily Nutrients Make a large chart with 5 columns: Grains, Vegetables & Fruits, Dairy, Meat & Beans, Sweets. • Keep a diary of what you eat and drink for two days. • At the end of each day, add up your servings for the day and check if you ate enough

from the 4 food groups. • How many sweets did you eat each day? Remember, you shouldn’t eat many sweets! • Bonus: Keep a food diary for the whole week. At the end of each day check how you

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Hea l th 2 : Hea l thy Hab i t s On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Healthy Habits Week 2: Unhealthy Habits • Make a list of five habits that you think are

healthy habits to have. Fun fact: Chewing gum for more than 20 minutes is not a healthy habit. It puts too much stress on your jawbone, gums, and teeth!

• Make a list of five habits that you think are unhealthy to have.

Fun fact: Chewing sugarless gum for a few minutes helps to clean your teeth!

Week 3: Healthy Habits Week 4: Sickness • What is good posture? Why is it important to

have good posture? • How much sleep should a person your age get?

Why? • How often should you brush and floss your

teeth? Why? • Why is it important to bathe?

Describe a time that you have been sick. • Why were you sick? • What was wrong with you? • How did you feel? • Did you have to take medicine? • How did you get better? • How long were you sick?

Week 5: Germs Week 6: Exercise

• What are germs? • What can you do to get rid of germs?

Exercising everyday is a healthy habit. There are two types of exercise: aerobic exercise and anaerobic exercise. • What is the difference between the two types? • Give one example of each type.

Week 7: Exercise Week 8: Exercise Aerobic exercise builds stamina and burns fat and calories. Everyone should do 30 minutes of aerobic exercise each day. Jogging, bicycling, walking, skating, playing sports, swimming, dancing, and jumping rope are good examples of aerobic exercise. • Make an extra effort to exercise for 30 minutes

every day this week. • Keep a journal of your activities.

Your heart rate is the number of times your heart beats in 1 minute. Aerobic exercise increases your heart rate. That gets more oxygen-rich blood to your muscles. • With a watch, measure your heart rate. • Exercise for 30 minutes. • Measure your heart rate. What did the exercise

do to your heart rate? Week 9: Exercise Week 10: Exercise • Why is it important to stretch out your muscles

before playing a sport? • Why is it important to drink plenty of water or

energy drinks, such as Gatorade, while you exercise?

• Why is it important to wait 30 minutes to an hour after eating before exercising?

Exercise is good for your body and your mind. It helps to keep you healthy. It gives you energy, helps you do better in school, makes you stronger, and helps you sleep better. It’s also fun! • This week, every time you are tempted to play

video games or watch television, exercise instead. Do your 30 minutes of exercise each day too!


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Week 1: Geologists Week 2: Rocks • What does a geologist study? • Name a famous geologist. • Why is he or she famous?

Rocks are the building blocks of the Earth’s crust. Rocks can change its type. • Of what are rocks made?

Week 3: Rocks Week 4: Soil There are three types of rocks. • Name the three types and describe each one. • What kind of rock is sandstone? • Bonus: Mount Rushmore is made of an igneous

rock. Find out which one.

• Of what is soil made? • What animals live in soil? Fun fact: Glass is made from sand.

Week 5: Minerals Week 6: Minerals

• What is a mineral? • Where are minerals found? Fun fact: Most minerals are formed from silicates. Silicates are compounds of oxygen and silicone.

Minerals are graded on a scale from 1 to 10 based on their hardness. One represents the softest minerals and ten represents the hardest ones. • Give an example of a very soft mineral. • Give an example of a very hard mineral. • What grade would quartz be given? Fun fact: The scale that grades a mineral’s hardness was invented by Friedrich Mohs, a German mineralogist.

Week 7: Crystals Week 8: Gemstones

Crystals are solids that form, or crystallize, from minerals in geometric shapes. There are two ways that crystals form. • Find out the two ways that crystals form. Fun fact: The general geometric shape of a crystal is called its habit.

Gemstones are valuable minerals. They are valued because they are beautiful, rare, and durable. There are about 100 types of gemstones. • Name as many gemstones as you can. • Try to find pictures of some of the gemstones in

your list. Some gemstones are organic. That means they come from plant or animals. For example, amber comes from trees. (It is the fossilized resin of trees.) • From where do we get pearls?

Week 9: The Water Cycle Week 10: Water Water moves around the Earth in a cycle, called a water cycle. Water is constantly recycled, so the same water that was here when the dinosaurs walked the Earth is here now! • Describe the water cycle. Fun fact: Just like water, rocks move around the Earth in a recycling process, called the rock cycle!

Living things need water to survive. It is a very precious resource. • What is a dam? • What is irrigation? Fun fact: If crops are not drained of water properly, then salt builds up in the soil. Eventually the crops will be poisoned as a result.


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Geo logy 2: The Earth Part 1 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: The Earth Week 2: The Earth’s Crust

• Of what is most of the Earth’s surface made?

• Draw a picture of the Earth.

The Earth is covered with a very thin surface, called the Earth’s crust. • Of what is the crust made? Fun fact: The Earth’s crust began to form about 4,000 million years ago!

Week 3: The Layers of the Earth Week 4: Plates

• What are the layers of the Earth? • Of what is each layer made? • Draw a diagram of the inside of the

Earth. Fun fact: The temperature gets higher and higher the deeper you go beneath the Earth’s surface.

The Earth’s crust is made of massive pieces of rock. They fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. The pieces are always slowly moving. • What are these massive pieces of rock

called? Fun fact: Where these pieces meet, they could be colliding, sliding past each other, or pulling apart. This motion has defined the Earth’s terrain. It can cause earthquakes and volcanoes. It can also do things like create valleys and build mountains.

Week 5: Continents

The tectonic plates are always slowly moving. • What is continental drift? • Find three pictures of the Earth: one from about 220 million years ago, one from about

200 million years ago, and one from today. Notice how the continents have changed. Bonus: Which continents are part of the Western Hemisphere? Which continents are part of the Eastern Hemisphere?


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Geo logy 2: The Earth Part 2 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 6: Volcanoes Scientists have been unable to dig below the Earth’s crust. They use volcanoes to find out what is beneath the Earth’s crust. • What is a volcano? • Name a volcano in the United States. Fun fact: Every year about 50 volcanoes erupt. Week 7: Volcanoes Week 8: Earthquakes

A volcano erupts when hot, liquid rock rises up from the Earth’s crust. • What is this hot, liquid rock called? • When a volcano erupts, what comes out? • Draw a diagram of a volcano. Fun fact: Every year about 50 volcanoes erupt.

Earthquakes change the Earth’s surface. They can cause a lot of damage, but most are so small we don’t notice them. The Earth’s crust is made of huge pieces. • What are these huge pieces called? Earthquakes usually occur on or near cracks in the Earth’s crust. • What are these cracks called? Fun fact: The strongest earthquake measured an 8.9 on the Richter Scale. It happened in Colombia in 1906.

Week 9: Earthquakes Week 10: Geysers

• What causes an earthquake? • Bonus: What do scientists use to

measure the strength of an earthquake? Fun fact: Tsunamis (gigantic waves) are caused by underwater earthquakes!

Geysers are common in the Western United States, New Zealand, and Iceland. These are places that are also known for recent volcanic activity. • What is a geyser? Old Faithful is a famous geyser in the United States. • Where is Old Faithful located? • About how often does it erupt? • Bonus: Geysers are influenced by the

Earth’s tides. What causes tides on Earth?


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Geo logy 3: Landforms On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Hill Week 2: Cliff • What is a hill? • Draw a picture of a hill. • Name a hill in your city. • Find it on a map.

• What is a cliff? • Draw a picture of a cliff. • Name a cliff in your country. • Find it on a map.

Week 3: Mountain Week 4: Peninsula • What is a mountain? • Draw a picture of a mountain. • Name a mountain in your country. • Find it on a map. • Name a mountain in another country. • Find it on a map.

• What is a peninsula? • Draw a picture of a peninsula. • Name a peninsula in your country. • Find it on a map. • Name a peninsula in another country. • Find it on a map.

Week 5: Isthmus Week 6: Plateau • What is an isthmus? • Draw a picture of an isthmus. • Name an isthmus on Earth. • Find it on a map.

• What is a plateau? • Draw a picture of a plateau. • Name a plateau on Earth. • Find it on a map.

Week 7: Island Week 8: Cape • What is an island? • Draw a picture of an island. • Name an island in your country. • Find it on a map. • Find another island on Earth. • Find it on a map.

• What is a cape? • Draw a picture of a cape. • Name a cape in your country. • Find it on a map. • Name a cape in another country. • Find it on a map.

Week 9: Archipelago Week 10: Reef • What is an archipelago? • Draw a picture of an archipelago. • Name an archipelago on Earth. • Find it on a map. • Draw a map of this archipelago.

• What is a reef? • Draw a picture of a reef. • Name a reef in another country. • Find it on a map.


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Geo l ogy 4 : Water Forms On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Ocean Week 2: River • What is an ocean? • How many oceans are there on Earth? • Name them. • Locate each ocean on a map. • Find out an interesting fact about one of the

oceans and share it with your classmates.

• What is a river? • What is the beginning of a river called? • What is the end of a river called? • Name a river in your country. • Locate it on a map. • Where does it start? • Into what body of water does it drain?

Week 3: Lake Week 4: Gulf • What is a lake? • Draw a picture of a lake. • Name a lake in your country. • Locate it on a map. • Name a lake in another country. • Locate it on a map.

• What is a gulf? • Draw a picture of a gulf. • Name a gulf in your country. • Locate it on a map. • Name a gulf in another country. • Locate it on a map.

Week 5: Sea Week 6: Canal • What is a sea? • Name a sea on Earth. • Find it on a map. • Find out an interesting fact about this sea

and share it with your classmates.

• What is a canal? • Name a canal on Earth. • Find it on a map. • Find out an interesting fact about this canal

and share it with your classmates. Week 7: Fjord Week 8: Bayou • What is a fjord? • Name a fjord on Earth. • Find it on a map. • Find out an interesting fact about this fjord

and share it with your classmates.

• What is a bayou? • Name a bayou in your country. • Find it on a map. • Find out an interesting fact about this bayou

and share it with your classmates. Week 9: Swamp Week 10: Lagoon • What is a swamp? • Name a swamp in your country. • Find it on a map. • Find out an interesting fact about this

swamp and share it with your classmates.

• What is a lagoon? • Name a lagoon on Earth. • Find it on a map. • Find out an interesting fact about this

lagoon and share it with your classmates.


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Geo logy 5: Env i ronmenta l Sc ience Part 1 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Rainforests Week 2: Endangered Animals

• Find out why tropical rainforests are in danger.

Fun fact: In one minute about 30 acres of rainforest are destroyed.

• What does endangered mean? • Name five animals that are endangered. Fun fact: In 1996, there were 728 species of animals that were endangered or threatened.

Week 3: Garbage Week 4: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle • What does the slogan, “Reduce, Reuse,

Recycle” mean? • Make a poster with the slogan on it. • Why is it important to recycle what we

can? Fun fact: It takes a soda can between 100 and 400 years to decompose in a dump. Why not recycle it instead?

• What are some ways that people can reduce what they use?

• What are some things that can be reused instead of thrown away?

• What are some of the things that we can recycle?

Fun fact: 17 trees are saved when 2,000 pounds of paper are recycled!

Week 5: Garbage Week 6: Pollution Garbage is either biodegradable or non-biodegradable. • What is biodegradable waste? • Give an example of something that is

biodegradable. • What is non-biodegradable waste? • Give an example of something that is

non-biodegradable. Fun fact: Everyday each American makes about 4 pounds of garbage!

Pollution affects air, land, and water. • What is pollution? • Who is responsible for making pollution? • Who can clean up the mess caused by

pollution?


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Water pollution is the contamination of water by harmful wastes. Water pollution can cause such diseases as dysentery and hepatitis. It can also cause great damage to aquatic life. • What are the main sources of water

pollution? • What was the Exxon Valdez disaster? • Bonus: What is the E.P.A.?

Air pollution is very harmful. It can contaminate drinking water and crops, hurt aquatic life, and cause health problems in humans. • What are the main sources of air pollution? • What are some solutions to the problem of

air pollution? Air pollution is causing a hole to grow in the ozone layer. This hole is mainly caused by refrigerators, air conditioners, and aerosol containers (like hair spray). • Why is the ozone layer important? • Where is the hole located?

Week 9: Ecosystems Things that humans do change ecosystems, sometimes permanently. What might seem like a small act could have a ripple effect. One act could change how all the plants and animals in that ecosystem interact. Here is an example: 1. Let’s say that too many anchovies are being caught in the Gulf of Mexico. 2. The anchovy’s predators might not have enough food, and might begin to die off. That would

affect the predator’s predators, and so on. 3. It could also affect the small plants and animals that the anchovies eat. The anchovy’s source

of food might begin to overpopulate the Gulf and cause too great a strain on the source of food of the small animals that the anchovies eat.

4. It could even affect the fish that compete with the anchovies for food. The anchovy’s competitors could grow in number because they are able to get food more easily. This would affect all the species that the competitors eat.

• Think of another example of how human activity changes ecosystems. Week 10: Ecosystems Governments have had to make rules about tuna fishing. There are rules about the number of tuna that can be caught and how tuna can be caught. • Why is it illegal to use large nets to catch tuna? (Unfortunately, this rule is not always

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Geo logy 6 Part 1 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Archaeologists Week 2: Paleontologists

Archaeologists spent three years uncovering all the items from King Tutankhamen’s tomb. • What does an archaeologist study? • Where is King Tutankhamen’s tomb?

• What does a paleontologist study? • What kind of scientist would you most

like to be? Why?

Week 3: Fossils Week 4: Paleozoic Era

Fossils teach us about the past. • What are fossils? • Have you ever seen a fossil? If so,

describe it. Fun fact: The oldest fossils are 3.2 billion years old!

• When did the Paleozoic Era begin? • How long did it last? • What are the six periods into which this

era is divided? (The first period on your list should be the oldest and the last period on your list should be the most recent.)

• What creatures appeared during this era?

Week 5: Mesozoic Era Week 6: Cenozoic Era

• When did the Mesozoic Era begin? • How long did it last? • What are the three periods into which

this era is divided? (The first period on your list should be the oldest and the last period on your list should be the most recent.)

• What creatures appeared during each period?

• When did the Cenozoic Era begin? • What are the three periods into which

this era is divided? (The first period on your list should be the oldest and the last period on your list should be the most recent.)

• What creatures appeared during each period?

• What period are we in now?


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Geo logy 6 Part 2 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 7: Caves Week 8: Caves Caves are hollow spaces inside the Earth. They are natural (not human-made) and are formed in different ways. Most caves are formed by water. Caves are all different shapes and sizes. • Name two animals you are likely to find in a

cave. • What are people who explore caves called?

Fun fact: Mammoth Cave is the longest cave system in the world. There are 345 miles of passageways as well as underground lakes and rivers!

There are caves made of limestone, marble, sandstone, gypsum, and even ice. Caves can be found in many places, including inside volcanoes and in sea cliffs! • What are stalagmites? • What are stalactites? • Draw a picture of a cave. • Bonus: In what state is Mammoth Cave

located? What type of cave is it?

Week 9: Erosion Week 10: Glaciers Erosion is the wearing down of the Earth’s surface. It is usually a very slow process that has occurred since the Earth was formed. The process is often so slow, that it is hard to see the effects of erosion during your life. • What causes erosion?

Fun fact 1: The Grand Canyon continues to be cut deeper and deeper by the Colorado River! Fun fact 2: Most of the ocean floor is covered in mud. Mud was once soil, but erosion brought the soil to the sea! The water and soil mixed to form mud. Fun fact 3: Most erosion happens over a very long time, but flash floods and mudslides cause erosion to happen very fast. It is so fast, that it can be catastrophic.

At the North and South Poles, huge masses of land are covered by glaciers. Europe were covered by glaciers. • What is a glacier? • What is an iceberg?

There have been many Ice Ages in the history of the Earth. The most recent one was about 30,000 years ago. At that time, most of North America and • What is an Ice Age? • Bonus: When glaciers melted thousands of

years ago, the melting caused the Great Lakes to form! What are the names of the Great Lakes?


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Meteoro logy 1 Part 1 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Wind Week 2: Wind

• Write a story about a very windy day. Fun fact: The early explorers could not have sailed the seas to explore the world without wind!

• What is a windmill? • Draw a picture of a windmill. Fun fact: There are very large wind farms in California that use windmills to make electricity! The wind is a very clean, safe, efficient, and renewable source of power.

Week 3: Wind Week 4: Clouds

Wind is a result of warm air mixing with cooler air. The bigger the temperature difference, the faster the wind blows. • Find out three interesting facts about

wind. • Bonus: The fastest wind ever was 213

miles per hour. It happened on Mount Washington, New Hampshire. Find it on a map.

Air contains water vapor, which is a gas. Warm air rises. Cool air sinks. When warm air rises, the water vapor cools and condenses. This is how clouds form. • On a cloudy day, lay in the grass and watch

the clouds go by. Can you see any pictures in the clouds? Write a poem or short story about your experience observing the clouds.

Week 5: Clouds Week 6: Clouds There are different types of clouds. Clouds are grouped together based on their shape and how high above the ground they are. • What do cumulus clouds look like? • Where do they appear? • Draw a picture of the sky with cumulus

clouds. Fun fact: The Maori name for New Zealand is Aoteroa, which means, “Land of the long white cloud.”

• What do stratus clouds look like? • Where do they appear? • What do cirrostratus clouds look like? • Where do they appear? • What do cumulonimbus clouds look like? • Where do they appear? • Draw a picture of these three types of

clouds. Label each one.


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Meteoro logy 1 Part 2 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 7: Weather Week 8: The Weather Report

Weather describes the condition of the atmosphere in terms of temperature, dryness, rain, sunshine, cloudiness, etc. • For five days this week, describe the

weather in your area. As you give your report, think about the following things:

There is constant motion in the atmosphere, especially in the lower layers (the troposphere and the stratosphere). This causes the air conditions around us to change. This creates changes in the weather. • Write a short story. Make half of your

story take place during your favorite weather and the other half take place during your least favorite weather.

1. Is it hot or cold? 2. Is it cloudy? 3. Is the sun shining? 4. Is it raining or snowing or is it

dry? 5. Is it windy?

Week 9: The Seasons Week 10: The Seasons When it is summer in the United States, do you know what season it is in Brazil? • Complete the following chart about

seasons in the two hemispheres:

Northern Hem i sphere

Southern Hem i sphere

spring summer autumn

• What are the four seasons? • Describe what the weather is like in your

area during each season. • When does each season start and end? • What is your favorite season? Why?

winter


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Meteoro l ogy 2 : Storms On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Storms Week 2: Storms

Storms are necessary to keep the Earth green and wet. Storms help spread out the Earth’s heat. Thus, they help to keep the tropical climates from getting too hot and the polar climates from getting too cold. • Write a poem or short story about a storm.

The heat from the Sun and the spinning of the Earth causes air to constantly move. When large air masses have different properties (like temperature and direction of movement) and collide, storms occur. • Name as many different types of storms as

you can. Fun fact: Storms happen on every planet that has an atmosphere. In fact, the storms on Earth are weak compared to storms on other planets!

Week 3: Rain & Snow Week 4: Thunder & Lightning

• How do raindrops form? • How does snow form?

• What is thunder? • What is lightning? Fun fact: Benjamin Franklin discovered that lightning is electricity when he flew a kite in a lightning storm.

Week 5: Flood Week 6: Tornado • What is a flood? • What causes a flood? • Where might a flood occur?

• What is a tornado? • What causes a tornado? • Where is a tornado likely to occur? Fun fact: In 1973, there were 1,102 tornadoes!

Week 7: Hurricane Week 8: Typhoon • What is a hurricane? • What causes a hurricane? • Where might a hurricane occur? Bonus: Hurricane Andrew was the most destructive hurricane ever. It caused $20 billion in damage. It had winds of 165 miles per hour. Where and when did Hurricane Andrew strike?

• What is a typhoon? • What causes a typhoon? • Where might a typhoon occur?

Week 9: Tsunami Week 10: Monsoon • What is a tsunami? • What causes a tsunami? • Where might a tsunami occur?

• What is a monsoon? • What causes a monsoon? • Where might a monsoon occur?


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Meteoro logy 3: C l imates & B iomes On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Climates Week 2: Climate Zones A region’s climate depends on how far it is from the Equator, how far it is from the sea, and how high it is above sea level. • What is a climate? • Describe the climate in your area. • What would happen to the climate if you

move farther and farther from the Equator? Fun fact: The farther you are from the sea, the colder your winters and hotter your summers.

The climates on Earth are divided into six zones: hot desert, tropical rainforest, temperate, mountain, taiga, and polar. • Draw a map of the world and shade each

zone a different color.

Week 3: Hot Desert Week 4: Tropical Rainforest Describe the climate of the hot desert in one paragraph.

Describe the climate of the tropical rainforest in one paragraph.

Week 5: Temperate Week 6: Mountain Describe the climate of the temperate zone in one paragraph.

Describe the climate of the mountain zone in one paragraph.

Week 7: Taiga Week 8: Polar Describe the taiga climate in one paragraph. Describe the polar climate in one paragraph. Week 9: Ecosystems Week 10: Trees and Climate

Specific trees grow best in certain conditions. • What tree are you likely to find in the

following climates or areas?

The variety of plants and animals within a climate and how they interact with each other is called an ecosystem. • Draw a picture of a deciduous forest

ecosystem. • Describe this ecosystem. Fun fact: The Gulf of Mexico ecosystem is threatened by the increasing number of native jellyfish and the invasion by a new species of jellyfish from the South Pacific Ocean. The invading jellyfish has no predators in the Gulf, so their population is growing quickly. A jellyfish eats about 2400 fish eggs each day! This is threatening the small fish population in the Gulf. This, in turn, is limiting the food supply of larger fish.

• swamp • rainforest • tropical island

• mountain • prairie • desert


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Measurement On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Rulers Week 2: Scales • What is a ruler? • Draw a picture of a ruler. • How tall are you?

• What is a scale? • Draw a picture of a scale. • How much do you weigh?

Week 3: Units of Measurement Week 4: Measuring Length Name as many units of measurement as you can that measure: 1. length 2. weight 3. temperature

Measure the following things in inches: 1. your foot 2. your hand 3. from your arm to your wrist 4. your thumb

Week 5: Measuring Length Week 6: Measuring Temperature Measure the following things in centimeters: 1. your foot 2. your hand 3. from your arm to your wrist 4. your thumb Bonus: Find out how many miles it is from your house to your school.

• With a parent, take your temperature. What is it?

• Measure the temperature inside your bedroom.

• What was the high temperature today? • What was the low temperature today?

Week 7: Measuring Weight Week 8: Measuring in the Kitchen Measure the following things in pounds: 1. a basketball 2. a favorite toy 3. a pair of shoes 4. your ten favorite books

Be a kitchen helper this week. Whenever anyone is cooking, measure the ingredients for the cook.

Week 9: Units of Measurement Week 10: Units of Measurement Decide which unit of measurement would be most practical in each situation. You can choose from the following: mile inch cup teaspoon foot pound ounce

Decide which unit of measurement would be most practical in each situation. You can choose from the following: mile inch cup teaspoon foot pound ounce

• weight of a person • length of a pencil • weight of a paperclip • width of a book • length of a table • flour for a recipe • height of a person • pepper for a recipe • height of a tall

building • distance between two

cities • weight of a car • length of your house


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Phys i cs 1 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Tools Week 2: Tools Draw a picture of these tools: Describe how each tool is used and for what it is

used: • saw • hammer

• screwdriver • axe

• saw • hammer

• screwdriver • axe

Week 3: Tools Week 4: Tools Draw a picture of these tools: Describe how each tool is used and for what it is

used: • drill • level • drill • level • stapler • wrench • stapler • wrench • can opener • scissors • can opener • scissors Week 5: Inventions Week 6: Inventions Why do you think the following things were invented?

Why do you think the following things were invented?

telephone bicycle Checkers Band-Aids light bulb sailboat

refrigerator wheelchair

basketball compass

soap battery

Week 7: Inventions Week 8: Inventions Why do you think the following things were invented?

Why do you think the following things were invented?

electricity automobile printing press air conditioning crutches radio Braille airplane

eye glasses scissors penicillin wheelbarrow hearing aid microwave oven camera computer

Week 9: Simple Machines Week 10: Simple Machines Machines make our lives easier. They make tasks easier to complete. • What are the simple machines? • Draw a picture of each one. Fun fact: All machines, no matter how complicated, can be broken down into some combination of the simple machines!

Choose one of the simple machines and explain how it works.


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Phys ics 2: Forces On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Forces Week 2: Gravity

All motion is caused by forces. You can’t see forces, but you can see movement caused by forces. Forces cause objects to start or stop moving, change direction, change speed, or change shape. Pushing and pulling are examples of forces. • Draw a picture that involves a scene with

many people exerting forces.

• What happens when you throw a ball into the air?

• Find out why.

Week 3: Gravity Week 4: Gravity

Gravity holds everything in the solar system together. Everything has gravity. The gravity of the Sun is what keeps the Earth in its orbit around the Sun. The gravity of the Earth keeps us from flying into outer space. • What causes the ocean tides on Earth? • Find one interesting fact about gravity.

Gravity is a force between two objects. The force attracts objects to each other. The strength of the force depends on the size of the objects and the distance between the objects. • What do you think has more gravity: an

apple or a car? • What do you think has more gravity: the

Earth or the Sun? Fun fact: You wouldn’t have any weight without gravity.

Week 5: Mass & Weight

Mass is the amount of matter (substance) an object contains. An object will have the same mass no matter where in the universe it is. Weight is different than mass. Weight is the force exerted on an object by gravity. An object will have a different weight depending on where in the universe it is because gravity changes. • Gravity on the moon is weaker than the gravity felt on Earth. Do you think an object would

weigh more on Earth or on the moon? • Why do you think astronauts are weightless in outer space?


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Phys i cs 3: Mot ion Part 1 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Motion Week 2: Velocity

All motion is caused by forces. You can’t see forces, but you can see movement caused by forces. Forces cause objects to start or stop moving, change direction, change speed, or change shape. Pushing and pulling are examples of forces. • Write a poem or short story that

involves a lot of motion.

Velocity is an object’s speed in a specific direction. A car’s velocity might be 35 miles per hour EAST. Velocity can stay the same or it can change. When velocity changes, that’s called acceleration. • What is the speed limit on your street? • What is the speed limit on the highway?

Week 3: Acceleration Week 4: Inertia & Momentum

Acceleration describes changing velocity. Acceleration is when an object speeds up. Deceleration is when an object slows down. When a car starts moving faster and faster after a light turns green, it is accelerating. • Next time you are in a car, watch the

speedometer. Notice how the velocity changes. Notice when the car begins accelerating and when it begins decelerating.

An object naturally wants to keep doing what it is already doing. If it is at rest, it wants to stay at rest. If it is moving, it wants to keep moving. That’s called inertia.

All moving objects have momentum. If an object is left alone, its momentum will stay the same, and it will just continue doing what it is doing (remember inertia).

Momentum is a force. It is transferred between objects when they hit each other. The amount of momentum a moving object has depends on how heavy the object is and how fast it is traveling. The greater the mass of an object, the greater its momentum. • Pretend you throw a heavy ball and a light

ball at someone. Say you throw them both at the same velocity. Which ball will hit the person with a greater force? Why?


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Phys i cs 3: Mot ion Part 2 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 5: Friction Week 6: First Law of Motion Friction is a force. It slows down and stops moving things. Any time objects come into contact with each other, there is friction.

There is energy in motion and friction changes that energy to heat. • What happens when you rub your hands together

really fast? Why?

The rougher something is, the more friction it makes. • Do you think you would be able to ride your bike

faster on glass or on sandpaper? Why?

If you are running on the sidewalk, the force of friction between your feet and the sidewalk allows you to stop. The more friction, the easier it will be to stop. • Would it become easier to stop running if the

sidewalk was covered with wet leaves? Why or why not?

Fun fact: Friction between the strings of a violin and the bow is what makes the music!

In 1687 Sir Isaac Newton discovered the three laws of motion.

1. An object at rest will stay at rest and an object in motion will stay in motion UNLESS the object is acted on by a force (like pushing, pulling, friction, or gravity).

Basically, things don’t move unless they are pushed or pulled, and things keep moving at the same velocity unless some force slows them down.

If it weren’t for friction (a force), moving things would keep moving forever! • Copy this into your composition book.

Week 7: Second Law of Motion Week 8: Third Law of Motion 2. How much an object accelerates (moves

faster and faster) depends on its mass and the how strong the force (like pushing or pulling) acting on it is.

Basically, when a large force acts on a really light object, it will accelerate a lot. When a small force acts on a really heavy object, it will hardly accelerate at all. • Copy this into your composition book.

Fun fact: There is a very important scientific equation that describes this law:

Force = mass x acceleration.

3. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

Basically, when two objects hit each other, equal forces act on each object but in opposite directions, causing them to move away from each other in opposite directions. • Copy this into your composition book.


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Phys i cs 4 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Physicists Week 2: Energy

• What does a physicist study? • Name a famous physicist. • Why is she or he famous?

Energy is all around us and makes things happen. It can change from one form into another form. • What do humans change into energy? • What do dams use to make electrical

energy? • Bonus: What is movement energy called? Fun fact: When energy changes form, some of the energy changes to heat.

Week 3: Magnets Week 4: Magnets

Make a chart with two columns with the headings: Magnetic and Not Magnetic. Decide if each object is magnetic (attracted to a magnet) or not magnetic and write it in the appropriate column.

paper clip nickel

nail penny

refrigerator iron

• What is a magnet? • Magnets have two poles. What are the

two poles of a magnet called? • Draw a picture of a magnet. Fun fact: The Japanese and the Germans are building magnetic trains. The trains will hover over the rails without touching them. The magnetic force will keep them on track! They will be able to travel 300 miles per hour!

soda can aluminum foil Week 5: Magnets

• If you have two magnets, what will happen if you do the following: • hold the two north poles together? • hold the south pole of one next to the north pole of the other?

• Bonus: The Earth is a magnet. How does a compass work?


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Phys ics 5: E lectr i c i ty On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Electricity Electricity is the movement of electrons between atoms. Electrons are really tiny negatively charged particles. They are found in atoms, which are the building blocks of everything around you. • Name ten things in your house that need electricity to work.

Week 2: Electricity Week 3: Batteries

• Find out from where the electricity in your house comes.

• How can you keep track of how much electricity is used in your house?

• How does the electricity get to your house? Fun fact: Electric eels make electricity using organs in their bodies!

Batteries make and store electricity. • Draw a picture of a battery. • What different sizes of batteries can you get? • Name three objects in your house that can run

on a battery. Fun fact: Alessandro Volta from Itlay invented the battery in 1800. The “Volt” is the unit used to measure electricity. Can you guess how they came up with that name?

Week 4: Static Electricity Week 5: Lightning Static electricity is a buildup of electrons. (Remember that electrons are negatively charged particles that are found in atoms. Atoms are found EVERYWHERE!)

Electrons don’t like to be near other electrons because things that have the same charge push each other away (they repel each other). When a lot of electrons are grouped together, they want to get away from each other. They can jump from one object to another object. This happens when you rub things together, like a balloon on your hair.

When you drag your feet on a carpet, electrons from the carpet move to your body. Then you get a buildup of electrons in your body and the electrons want to escape.

• What happens when you touch a friend? • Try this with a friend.

Lightning is a form of static electricity. In a thundercloud the positively charged particles (protons) move to the top and the negatively charged particles (electrons) move to the bottom. Because opposite charges attract each other, positively charged particles build up on the ground (attracted by the negatively charged particles at the bottom of the cloud. When a strong burst of electricity flows between the positive and negative charges in the cloud, a bolt of lightning flows out of the bottom of the cloud to the ground and back again. • Draw a picture of a lightning storm as it is

described here. • Write a poem about lightning.


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Phy s i c s 6 : L i g h t & Sound


Week 1: Waves Energy (like heat, light, and sound) moves in waves, similar to the waves in the ocean. Energy waves have peaks and valleys.

The basic shape of energy waves is always the same, but the height of the wave and the distance between the peaks depends on the amount of energy. More energy means taller and wider waves. The basic shape of a wave looks like:

• Make a piece of art with a lot of waves. Week 2: Light Week 3: Light (Mirrors)

Light is energy that moves in waves. • From where does most of the light on Earth

come? Fun fact: Light travels faster than anything else. Every second it travels 300,000 kilometers!

When light hits an object, it could do one of 3 things: 1. It could bounce off the object. Light bounces

off mirrors. That is why you can see your reflection in a mirror. Light bounces off you, hits the mirror, and then bounces off into your eyes.

• Write a short story in which a mirror plays an important part.

Week 4: Light (Glass) Week 5: Light (Color) When light hits an object, it could do one of 3 things: 2. It could go through the object. Light goes

through glass. That is why you can see through glass.

• What happens to objects when you look at them through a magnifying glass?

• Draw a picture of a magnifying glass.

When light hits an object, it could do one of 3 things: 3. It could be absorbed into the object. We

see an object in a certain color because it reflects light in that color. The rest of the light is absorbed. Black things absorb all the light that hits them.

• What are the colors of the rainbow? Week 6: Sound Week 7: Music

Sound is energy that travels in waves. Sound causes vibrations that travel through matter to our ears. • Name five sounds that you like. • Name five sounds that you do not like. • What is the loudest sound you can think of? • What is the quietest sound you can think of? Fun fact: Quiet sounds have less energy than loud sounds!

There is a great deal of science behind music. Each note and every tone is a unique sound wave. It has taken years of experimentation to figure out what sound waves sound good together. Over time, people have invented instruments that play tones. They have also developed rhythms, which are patterns of beats. • Find out 3 facts about your favorite

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Phys ics 7: Co lors Part 1 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Colors Week 2: Primary Colors

• Name as many colors as you can. • Think of objects that are the colors

in your list. Fun fact: Black is not a true color. It is actually the absence of color. Color depends on light, so without light everything is black.

What are the primary colors? Fun fact: Some people are blind to certain colors and some see the world in shades of gray. This is called color blindness. More men than women are color blind.

Week 3: Mixing Colors Week 4: Rainbows • What color do you get when you mix

red and green? • What color do you get when you mix

blue and red? Fun fact: Color depends on who is looking at an object. For example, when a guinea pig looks at a red apple, it sees a gray object. The eyes and the brain allow animals and humans to see color.

• What are the colors of the rainbow? • Draw a picture of a rainbow. • When can you see a rainbow?

Week 5: Rainbows Week 6: White Light

People often remember the order of the colors of the rainbow by this memory device:

The name ROY G. BIV • Copy this name in your composition

book and write the appropriate color of the rainbow next to each letter.

• Of what colors is white light made?


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Phys ics 7: Co lors Part 2 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 7: Colors and Light Week 8: Animals and Color

Color is just a matter of absorbed and reflected light. Absorbed light is light that soaks into an object, and reflected light is light that bounces off an object. An object appears a certain color because it reflects that color and it absorbs all other colors. • Why is a tomato red? • Why is grass green?

Some animals can see different colors and others cannot. Monkey, apes, birds, fish, and bees can distinguish between colors much like humans can. Cats can only distinguish between blue and green. • Pretend you are a cat. Write a short

story from a cat’s point of view. Describe what the world looks like through your eyes.

Week 9: Pigments Week 10: Prisms

Many cave paintings from early humans have been discovered. They didn’t have crayons and paint like we do today. They used naturally colored pigments from the earth and clay. • Find a picture of a famous cave

painting and copy it to the best of your ability.

• What is a prism? • Draw a prism. • What happens when white light hits a

prism? • Bonus: What is the official name for

the broad stripes of color?


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Astronomy 1 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Our Galaxy Week 2: Our Solar System • What is a galaxy? • What is the name of our galaxy? • What is the Sun?

• How many planets are there in our solar system?

• List them in alphabetical order. Week 3: Our Solar System Week 4: Our Solar System • List the planets in our solar system in

order from smallest to the largest. • List the planets in our solar system in

order from the closest to the sun to the farthest.

Draw a picture or make a sculpture of our solar system. Be creative!

Week 5: The Planets Week 6: The Planets

Find out one interesting fact about each of the planets in our solar system.

The planets in our solar system are split into two groups: the inner planets and the outer planets. The inner planets are closer to the sun than the outer planets. • How many inner planets are there? • What are their names? • How many outer planets are there? • What are their names?

Week 7: The Planets Week 8: The Planets • Which planets have rings? • What planet is nicknamed the “Red

Planet”? • Which planet is nicknamed the “Morning

Star”?

• What is the path around the Sun that a planet follows called?

• Which planet is closest to the Sun? • What is the largest planet in our solar

system? Week 9: The Planets Week 10: The Earth

• There are minor planets between Mars and Jupiter. What are they called?

• How many moons circle Jupiter?

• What is the closest body in our solar system? (Hint: It is not necessarily a planet.)

• Order the following from largest to smallest: Earth, Sun, Moon


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Astronomy 2 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Telescopes Week 2: Astronomers • What is a telescope? • Draw a telescope. • When was it invented? • Who invented it?

• What does an astronomer study? • Name a famous astronomer. • Why is s/he famous?

Week 3: Earth Week 4: Constellations • What happens to the Earth as a year

passes? • About how often does the moon orbit

Earth?

• What are constellations? • Name two constellations and draw pictures

of them.

Week 5: The Atmosphere Week 6: The Atmosphere

• What is the atmosphere? • What are the four main gases found in the

Earth’s atmosphere?

There are five layers of the Earth’s atmosphere. Three of the layers are: exosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere. • What are the names of the other two

layers? Week 7: The Atmosphere Week 8: The Atmosphere List the five layers of the Earth’s atmosphere in order from the closest to the Earth to the farthest away.

• What is the ozone layer? • In which layer of the atmosphere is the

ozone layer found? Week 9: Eclipses Week 10: The Northern Lights

• What is a lunar eclipse? • What is a solar eclipse? • Have you ever seen an eclipse?

The “northern lights” is a beautiful display of bright, colorful lights, almost like fireworks in all the colors of the rainbow. • Where are some of the best places to see

the northern lights display? • Locate the places on a map. • Draw a picture of what you imagine the

display to look like. Fun facts: The display of “northern lights” is called aurora borealis. There is also a “southern lights” display. It is occasionally visible near the South Pole in the Southern Hemisphere. The display is called aurora australis.


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Chemistry 1 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Chemists Week 2: Test Tubes • What does a chemist study? • Name a famous chemist. • Why is he or she famous?

• What is a test tube? • For what is it used? • Draw a picture of one.

Week 3: Baking Week 4: Gases Imagine you are baking. Decide if adding the following ingredients makes a mixture thicker or thinner:

• water • flour

• oil • bread crumbs

• What gas do humans exhale? • What gas do humans inhale?

Week 5: Natural vs. Human-made Week 6: Natural vs. Human-made For each of the following items, decide if it is natural or made by humans. If it is natural, then find out where it comes from.

For each of the following items, decide if it is natural or made by humans. If it is natural, then find out where it comes from.

• cotton • plastic

• wood • water

• gold • silk

• sand • leather

Week 7: Natural vs. Human-made Week 8: Natural vs. Human-made For each of the following items, decide if it is natural or made by humans. If it is natural, then find out where it comes from.

For each of the following items, decide if it is natural or made by humans. If it is natural, then find out where it comes from.

• wool • nylon • cashmere

• paper • milk

• glass • rubber • granite

• potatoes • blood

Week 9: Water Week 10: Floating (Buoyancy)

• What does ice turn into when it melts? • What does water turn into when it freezes? • What does water turn into when it

evaporates?

When you put an object in water, the object pushes away some of the water to make room for itself. In scientific words: the object displaces some of the water. • Why do some objects float? Bonus: Oceans are salty, so the water weighs more. That makes it easier to float in an ocean than in a swimming pool. The Dead Sea is even saltier than an ocean. Do you think it would be easier to float in the Dead Sea or the Atlantic Ocean?


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Chemistry 2: Matter Part 1 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Matter Week 2: Solid Everything around you (including yourself) is made of matter. • Of what is matter made? Matter comes in three different forms, called states. • What are the three states of matter? Fun fact: Atoms are too small even to be seen in a microscope!

A solid has a fixed shape and a fixed volume. That means a solid will always keep the same shape and take up the same amount of space (as long as it is a solid). Rocks and coins are solids. You are a solid. • Name ten more solids. • What is the solid form of water called?

Week 3: Liquid Week 4: Gas A liquid has a fixed volume but not a fixed shape. That means a liquid will always take up the same amount of space, but it will change its shape depending on the container it is in. Water and milk are liquids. Milk will be one shape in its carton, but when you pour some in a glass, it will take the shape of the glass. • Measure 8 ounces of milk in a measuring cup.

Line up 3 different shaped containers. Then pour the 8 ounces of milk from one container to the next and watch it change shape!

• Name five liquids.

A gas has no fixed shape or fixed volume. That means it will take up a different amount of space and change its shape depending on the size and shape of the container it is in. So if you put any amount of gas in any size and any shape container it will fill it up! Air is a gas. Sometimes water can be a gas. • What is water called when it is a gas?

Week 5: Atoms Week 6: Elements

Atoms are the building blocks of matter. Every substance is made of lots of atoms. Even a speck of dust is made of millions of atoms! Atoms contain particles called electrons, protons, and neutrons. • What is an electron? • What is a proton? • What is a neutron?

There are 109 different types of atoms. They are called elements. 92 of the elements are found in nature, but the other 17 are human-made in a lab. You have probably heard of some elements. Hydrogen and helium are elements. • Name three more elements. Scientists arranged all the elements in a chart to keep track of them. • What is the name of this chart? • Look at a picture of one of these charts. • What is the atomic number?


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Chemistry 2: Matter Part 2 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 7: Molecules Often atoms join together and form molecules. The atoms are held together by bonds. You can imagine a really tiny chain holding the atoms together. Water molecules are made of two different elements (types of atoms). • Of what two elements is each water molecule made? In chemistry a water molecule is called H2O. • What does the H stand for? What about the O? • Bonus: Why is there a 2 after the H? Week 8: Changing State Experiment: With a parent put one ice cube in a small pot on the stove. Turn up the heat and watch matter change forms, or states, before your eyes! • Record what you saw. • In what order did the three states of matter appear? You just watched water change state! Actually all matter can change between the three states. Week 9: Changing State Remember:

1. Matter is made of atoms(which are really small particles). 2. Atoms join together to form molecules. 3. Matter can come in three forms, called states: solids, liquids, and gases. 4. Matter can change state.

Just like bonds hold atoms together, bonds hold molecules together. The bonds that hold molecules together keep matter in its state.

When these bonds get stronger OR when the bonds get weaker, matter will change state. Heat adds energy to the molecules making them move faster and faster and break away from each other. So heat makes the bonds get weaker. Cold takes away energy from the molecules, making them move slower and slower and join together. So cold makes the bonds get stronger. • Copy this information into your notebook. Week 10: Changing State Heat makes: 1. a solid change to a liquid 2. a liquid change to a gas.

Cold makes: 3. a gas change to a liquid 4. a liquid change to a solid

Each of these four changing processes has a different name. • What is each changing process called?


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Chemistry 3: Temperature On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Temperature Week 2: Temperature

Matter (everything around us) is made of atoms. Atoms join to form molecules. • What does heat do to molecules? • What does cold do to molecules? Heat is just energy. The more energy something has the hotter it is and the faster it moves.

Temperature is measured on three scales: Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin. Fahrenheit and Celsius are the most common. • What tool is used to measure

temperature? • What is the human body temperature? • What is a fever? • Have you ever had a fever? • Bonus: Absolute zero is the temperature

at which no molecules move. What is Absolute Zero on the three scales?

Week 3: Temperature Week 4: Conduction

• What temperature might it be on a hot, sunny day in Celsius and Fahrenheit?

• What temperature might it be on a cold winter day in Celsius and Fahrenheit?

• What is boiling point? • What is the boiling point of water? • What is freezing point? • What is the freezing point of water?

Heat moves in three ways. Conduction is one of the three ways that heat can move. Heat travels through solids by conduction. Heat always passes from hotter objects to cooler ones. That is why you burn yourself if you touch a hot pot. The heat moves from the pot to your hand. • If you stepped with bare feet on cold

concrete, what would happen to the heat from your feet?

• Would your feet be left colder or warmer? Week 5: Convection & Radiation Heat moves in three ways. Convection is one of the three ways. Heat travels through liquids and gases by convection. • Does hot air float upwards or downwards? Radiation is the third way that heat can move. All matter can gain or lose heat by radiation.


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Chemistry 4: Chemica l React ions On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Chemicals Chemicals are made of elements. (Remember, elements are the 109 different types of atoms.) Everything around us is made of chemicals. Food is made of chemicals. • What are three other things that are made of chemicals? Week 2: Chemical Reactions Sometimes when certain chemicals get together, they react. A chemical reaction might cause an explosion or cause color to change. A chemical reaction could cause a change in temperature, smell, or taste. A chemical reaction might also occur without you even noticing. A chemical reaction starts with one or more chemicals and ends with one or more different chemicals. • What are the original chemicals called? • What are the new chemicals called? Week 3: Chemical Reactions Baking a cake, fireworks exploding, and wood burning in a fireplace are examples of chemical reactions. • List another example of a chemical reaction. Fun fact: During chemical reactions, bonds between atoms are either formed or broken. When matter changes state, it is not a chemical reaction. No new substance is formed when matter changes state. The same substance is present; it is just in a different form. Bonds between molecules, not bonds between atoms, are formed or broken when matter changes state. Week 4: Endothermic Reactions Week 5: Exothermic Reactions Chemical reactions are split into two categories: Endothermic reactions and exothermic reactions. Endothermic reactions take in more heat than they give out. Cooking is an endothermic reaction. • List one more endothermic reaction.

Exothermic reactions give out more heat than they take in. A log burning in a campfire is an exothermic reaction. • List one more exothermic reaction.

Week 6: Oxidation & Reduction Oxygen is an element that takes part in two important chemical reactions. These two chemical reactions are so important that they have their own names: oxidation and reduction. They are both exothermic reactions. • When does oxidation occur? • When does reduction occur?


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Invent ions 1 Each week do the following in your composition book or on your paper: 1. When was this person born? When did he or she die? 2. What did this person invent? 3. Draw a picture of the invention as it looked when it was first invented. 4. Find out one interesting fact about this inventor or the invention.

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Alexander Graham Bel l Benjamin Frankl in

Week 3 Week 4

Thomas Alva Edison Samuel F. B. Morse

Week 5 Week 6

George Washington Carver

El i Whitney

Week 7 Week 8

Alexander Fleming The Wright Brothers

Week 9 Week 10

Mary Walton Robert Fu lton


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Invent ions 2 Each week do the following in your composition book or on your paper: 1. Who invented this object? 2. When was it invented? 3. What does it do? 4. Find out one interesting fact about this inventor or the invention. 5. Why is it important?

Week 1 Week 2

Abacus Bicyc le

Week 3 Week 4

Hot Air Bal loon Suspens ion Br idge

Week 5 Week 6

Typewriter Telephone

Week 7 Week 8

Phonograph Sewing Machine

Week 9 Week 10

Camera Light Bulb


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Invent ions 3 Part 1 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2

The electric light bulb was perfected by Thomas Alva Edison. Did you know that he also invented an electric car, a phonograph (record player), a concrete house with concrete furniture, and an ice box? He invented 1,093 things! • Think of your own invention and give it a

creative name. Explain what it does.

Though we don’t like to think about going to the doctor’s office to get a shot, it was the discovery of penicillin in 1928 that changed the treatment of disease. Dr. Alexander Fleming worked hard to market the drug, which has saved thousands of lives around the world. • Write about a time you were sick and had

to take penicillin. Week 3 Week 4

• What did Alexander Graham Bell invent?

• When? • Where was he born? Fun fact: Alexander Graham Bell is also known for his medical research and for teaching speech to the deaf.

Eli Whitney was born in 1765 in Massachusetts. • What is Eli Whitney famous for inventing? • What does it do? • Why was his invention important?

Week 5

The Teddy Bear is named after one of the presidents. This president refused to shoot a helpless bear while on a hunting trip. A cartoonist made a cartoon representing this kind act. Then a shop owner decided to make a toy bear based on the cartoon and he asked the president for permission to call the toy a Teddy Bear. • After which president is the Teddy Bear named? • Do you have a favorite teddy bear or other stuffed animal? • Describe it. • Draw a picture of it.


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George Washington Carver was born in 1864 in Missouri. His mother was a slave. He overcame obstacles because of his color and studied agriculture in college. He invented new ways to rotate crops and hundreds of uses for extra crops. He also invented peanut butter. Carver said, “It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor

the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.”

• What do you think this quotation means in your own words?

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Henry Ford was born in 1863 in Michigan. He invented the assembly line and used it in a factory to make the Model T Ford. • What is an assembly line? • Find out 2 interesting facts about the

Model T. • Draw a picture of the Model T.

Johannes Guttenberg invented the movable type printing machine in 1450! Books no longer had to be printed by hand. This machine was still used in the 1900s! • Why do you think this invention was

important?

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• When was Coca-Cola invented? • Who invented it? • Where was it invented? Fun fact: During its first year, $50 of Coca-Cola was sold, but the producer spent $70 to make it!

The Hula Hoop was based on bamboo hoops that Australian students used in gym class. • What is a Hula Hoop? • Find out when the Hula Hoop was invented. • What company sold them originally?


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Checkers has been around since 1400 BC! It was invented in Egypt. • What is your favorite game? • Why is it your favorite? • Describe how the game is played.

Louis Braille invented Braille in 1829 in France. • What is Braille? • Why was this an important invention? • Write your name in Braille.

Week 3 Week 4 Josephine Cochrane invented the dishwasher in 1886. At first only hotels and restaurants were interested in her invention. In the 1950s, the invention caught on. • Wash the dinner dishes three times this

week. • After you have finished, write about why

you think the dishwasher was a good invention.

Fun fact: Josephine Cochrane started the company KitchenAid to make and sell her dishwasher.

PEZ Candy was invented in 1927 by a man in Austria. • Draw a picture of a PEZ dispenser. • Invent a new type of candy and give it a

name. • Write about how it looks, smells, feels, and

tastes, and draw a picture of it. Fun fact: PEZ is named after the German word for peppermint, PfeffErminZ, because it was originally a peppermint flavored candy!

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Benjamin Franklin is a very important person in the history of the United States. He published an almanac, called Poor Richard: An Almanack. He is considered the first major American inventor. • When and where was he born? • What is an almanac? • List four things that he invented.

Native American, George Crum invented the potato chip in 1853. He was a chef and one of his customers didn’t like his thick French fries. He made him extra thin French fries that couldn’t be eaten with a fork. They were a huge success. • Invent a new snack food. • Write about how it looks, smells, feels, and

tastes. • Give it a name and draw a picture of it.


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Louis Pasteur was a chemist. He invented the pasteurization process, which is used on milk, orange juice, wine, beer, and cheese to kill disease-causing bacteria. He also discovered vaccines against rabbis and anthrax. • When was he born? • When did he die? • In what country did he live? • Find the country on a map.

The first Crayola Crayons were introduced by the Binney & Smith Co. in 1909. There were eight colors in the box. In 1949, 40 colors were added. By 1998, there were 120 colors in the largest box of Crayola Crayons. • Invent five to ten new names for crayon

colors.

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George W. Ferris invented the Ferris Wheel for the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. It honored the 400th anniversary of Columbus landing in America. • Invent a new amusement park ride. • Give your ride a name. • Draw a picture of it. • Describe your ride. (Is it scary? Is it

fast? Does it go high? etc.) Fun fact: The Eiffel Tower was built by Gustave Eiffel for the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris to mark the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution.

James Rumsey, John Fitch, Samuel Morey, Nathan Read, and John Stevens are all early American inventors of the steamboat. Their boats were built beginning in 1787. Usually Robert Fulton is given credit for inventing the steamboat, even though his boat was launched much later. His steamboat became a successful and famous passenger boat. • What is the name of Fulton’s famous

steamboat? • When was it made? • Draw a picture of a steamboat.


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Scott Paper invented Paper Towels in 1907. They were invented to be used in classrooms in Philadelphia to keep colds from spreading. • Think of your own invention. • Give your invention a name, describe it,

and draw a picture of it.

René Laënnec invented the stethoscope in 1819. • What is a stethoscope? • For what is it used? • Draw a picture of one.

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The hand-held camera was invented in 1888 by George Eastman. The first cameras look very different from the cameras we use today. • Collect ten pictures of your life and

make a beautiful scrapbook. Be creative! • Underneath each picture, write what the

picture is of.

The Periodic Table is a table that arranges all the chemical elements by their atomic weights. It was invented by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869. • From what country is Dmitri Mendeleev? • Find this country on a map. • Find a picture of a Periodic Table. • Bonus: What is an element?

Week 5

Ancient Greeks chewed tree resin and Maya Indians over 1000 years ago chewed chicle, which is sap from the sapodilla tree. Native Americans in New England chewed sap from spruce trees and taught early European settlers this habit. In 1906 bubble gum was invented, but it was too sticky to sell. In 1928 a successful bubble gum, Dubble Bubble, hit the market. • Write a short story or poem called, “The Biggest Bubble Ever”.


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An employee at Johnson & Johnson, Earle Dickson, invented Band-Aids® in 1920. His wife always seemed to cut herself in the kitchen. He grew tired of bandaging her up with the gauze that was available. He wanted something sterile that she could put on herself. • Think of something that you are curious about and find out when it was invented and

who invented it. Fun fact: The first Band-Aids® came in strips 2½ inches wide and 18 inches long! They didn’t become popular until they made them smaller.

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In the early 1900s, Clarence Birdseye invented a way to freeze food and sell it in grocery stores. This was one of the most important inventions in the food industry. It allowed food to retain its nutrients and its flavor. It is a very convenient way to buy food. • What frozen foods do you have at your

house?

The Rubik’s Cube was invented in 1977 by a Hungarian man. He used it to teach group theory in mathematics. Soon after it was invented, it was sold as a puzzle. • Describe a Rubik’s cube using words from

geometry. • Find Hungary on a map. Fun fact: By 1980, 100 million Rubik’s Cubes had been sold around the world.

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In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus discovered that we live in a solar system with a sun in the center. • Draw a beautiful picture of our solar

system.

Johannes Kepler discovered how planets move in the sky. • When and where was Johannes Kepler

born? • In what shape do planets travel? • Why do you think this was an important

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Week 1 Week 2 Levi Strauss was a business man who moved to San Francisco from Germany. One of his customers, Jacob Davis (a tailor), invented pants with rivets to make them stronger. Davis couldn’t afford to pay for a patent, so he asked Strauss to be his partner. Levi’s Jeans were first sold in 1873. • Invent something that has to do with

clothing. • Give your invention a name, describe it, and

draw a picture of it. Fun fact: Levi’s Jeans were not actually called jeans until 1960. Until then they were called waist overalls!

Art Fry sang in his church choir. He used paper to mark the pages of the songs the choir had to sing, but the bookmarks kept falling out. He had an idea! Art Fry invented Post-it® Notes in the 1970s. Soon all the people he worked with begged him for more and more samples of his Post-it® Notes. • What is a Post-it® Note? • Why are Post-it® Notes important? • What company makes Post-it® Notes?

Week 3 Week 4 Will Keith Kellogg invented Corn Flakes in 1894 in an attempt to improve the vegetarian diet at hospitals. It was an accident! He left a pot of boiled wheat out and Corn Flakes resulted! • What is your favorite cereal? • Describe it. (What does it look, smell, and

taste like?) • Design a new cereal box for your favorite

cereal. Be creative!

Paper was invented in China in 100 AD. • From what is paper made? • What can you do to cut down on the amount

of paper you and your family uses? • Set up a plan in your house to use less paper.

Week 5 The wheel was invented in 6500 BC by the Sumerians. In 1839 Charles Goodyear invented a process to make rubber strong, elastic, and resistant to heat and cold. This process later allowed rubber to be used for tires. The automobile was invented in 1885. • Write a short story about life without cars. • Bonus: Find out what the process that Charles Goodyear invented is called. Fun fact: Rubber is a natural material that comes from rubber trees!


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Week 6 The piano was invented in Italy in 1709. The modern piano with pedals was invented in Italy in 1873 by John Broadwood in England. • Do you play an instrument? If so, what instrument? If not, would you like to? • What is your favorite instrument? • Why is it your favorite? Week 7 Week 8 The Slinky was invented by Richard James of Philadelphia in 1945. • What is a Slinky? • Describe what it does. • Draw a picture of one. Fun fact: The motion of a slinky is very complex scientifically. As gravity pulls the Slinky down the stairs, energy moves through it in the shape of a wave. How quickly it moves is determined by the length of the Slinky, the mass of the material it is made of, the diameter of each coil, and the height of the stairs. When you watch a Slinky “walk” down the stairs, it doesn’t look that complicated!

The first thermometer was invented in 1593 by Galileo Galilei. The mercury thermometer that we use today was invented by Gabriel D. Fahrenheit in 1714. There are three scales that we use to measure temperature: Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin. Each scale is named after the person who invented it. • What was the highest temperature this

week? • What was the lowest temperature this

week? • Write about a time that you were sick with

a fever.

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Chess was invented in India or Persia about 4000 years ago. • Invent a new game. • Give your game a name. • Write the rules for you game. • Bonus: Create your game with cardboard.

Play your game with friends or family. Fun fact: Christopher Columbus brought cards and chess to America.

T. J. Marshall invented the fire extinguisher in 1872. • What is a fire extinguisher? • Why are fire extinguishers important? • Draw a picture of one. • Does your family have a fire escape plan?

If so, practice it. If not, make a plan with your family this week and then practice it.

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Sc ient i s ts 1 Each week a scientist is listed. On your paper or in your composition book answer the following: 1. When was he born? 2. If she is already dead, when did she die? 3. Where does he (or did he) live? 4. What field of science does she (or did she) study? 5. Why is he important? Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2

Albert Einste in Benjamin Frankl in

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Gal i leo Gal i le i Marie Cur ie

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Nicolaus Copernicus Stephen Hawking

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Richard Feynman Johannes Kepler

Week 9 Week 10

Danie l Fahrenheit L i Shih-Chen


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Sc ient i s ts 2 Each week a scientist is listed. On your paper or in your composition book answer the following: 1. When was he born? 2. If she is already dead, when did she die? 3. Where does he (or did he) live? 4. What field of science does she (or did she) study? 5. Why is he important? Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2

Wil l iam Harvey Chr ist iaan Huygens

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Robert Boyle Benjamin Banneker

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Alessandro Volta Caro lus L innaeus

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André-Marie Ampere Georges Cuv ier

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Charles Darwin The Leakey Fami ly:

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Anc ient H istory 1 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: The Olympic Games Week 2: The Colosseum

• When were the first recorded Olympic Games held?

• In what city did they take place? • How often did they take place? Fun fact: Greek women were not allowed to participate in or to watch the Olympic Games, so they held games of their own, called the Heraea.

The Colosseum is a huge structure that took ten years to build. Gladiator fights were held there for entertainment and to teach people to fight in case the empire was invaded. • When was it built? • Where is it? • What group of people built it? Fun fact: The opening ceremony lasted 100 days. Hundreds of animals and thousands of gladiators were killed during the ceremony.

Week 3: Sumerians Week 4: Indus Valley Civilization The Sumerians invented the wheel and the plow in 3500 BC. • Where did the Sumerians live? • Find out two facts about the Sumerians.

• In what modern country was the Indus Valley Civilization?

• When did it begin and when did it end? • Find out two facts about this civilization.

Week 5: The Ancient Greeks Week 6: The Age of Pericles

Write a research paper about the Ancient Greeks.

Pericles was a Greek ruler. During the Age of Pericles Greek culture flourished. The Peloponnesian Wars were fought during the Age of Pericles, from 431-404 BC. • Who fought in the wars? • Who won?

Week 7: Lao-tse Week 8: Firsts in the Ancient World

• From what country was Lao-tse? • What religion did he found?

• When was planet Earth formed? • When were the first modern Homo sapiens? • When did Neanderthal man begin using fire?

Week 9: Judaism Week 10: Mayan Civilization Judaism is the oldest religion that holds the belief that there is one god. Abraham is the founding father. • What is the most holy book of Judaism

called? • To whom was this book given?

The Mayan Empire was most powerful around the year 600. The Mayans built giant pyramid-shaped temples. They also developed writing and advanced mathematics. • Where was the Mayan Civilization? • Find out three facts about the Mayans.


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Week 1: Christianity Week 2: Stonehenge Christianity is based on the teachings of Jesus Christ. Jesus was born in 7 BC. Christianity quickly spread through the Roman Empire. • What religion was Jesus? • What is the most sacred book in Christianity

called? • Bonus: When did the Christians of the East

and West split? What is this split called?

Stonehenge was probably built as a religious monument. • Where is Stonehenge? • Of what is it made? • About when was it built? • Draw a picture of Stonehenge.

Week 3: Confucius Week 4: The Byzantine Empire

• From what country was Confucius? • What religion did he found?

• When did the Byzantine Empire begin? • Find out two facts about it. • When did it end?

Week 5: Ancient Romans Week 6: Ancient Egypt

Write a research paper about the Ancient Romans.

• What are the three Kingdoms of Ancient Egypt called?

• Find out three facts about each of the three Kingdoms.

Week 7: Hinduism Week 8: Firsts in the Ancient World Hinduism is considered the oldest religion in the world. Many believe it began in prehistoric times! Unlike other religions, there is no one founder of Hinduism. It is the major religion of India. There are two sacred books of Hinduism. • What are the two sacred books called? • Find India on a map. • What is the capital of India?

• When was the first year of the Jewish calendar?

• When did the first writing appear?

Week 9: Cave Painting Week 10: Siddharta Gautama Cave painting first appeared around 15,000 BC. The art was created in Europe, Australia, and Brazil around the same time. • Look at the pictures of the cave paintings in

caves at Lascaux, France. • Find the underlined places on a map.

• From what country was Siddharta Gautama? • What religion did he found?


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Week 1: Mohammed Week 2: Holy Roman Empire

• From what country was Mohammed? • What religion did he found?

• Who was its first emperor? • When did it begin? • What was the religion of the empire? • When did the empire end?

Week 3: Romanesque Architecture Week 4: University of Oxford Romanesque Architecture was popular in Europe from 1050 to 1200. Romanesque cathedrals (big churches) are very wide and have rounded arches. They are also dark. • Name two Romanesque cathedrals. • Where is each cathedral located? • Look at pictures of them. • Bonus: Engineers of Romanesque

cathedrals used barrel and groin vaults. What are barrel and groin vaults?

The University of Oxford was one of the first universities. It is still considered one of the best universities in the world. • In what country is the University of

Oxford? • When was the University of Oxford

founded? • Bonus: A university in France and one

in Italy were founded about the same time. What are they called?

Week 5: Mali Empire

The Mali Empire reached its height in the early 1300s under King Mansa Musa. • Where was the Mali Empire located? • When did it begin and end? • Who founded the Mali Empire?


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Week 6: The Great Plague

• What was the Great Plague? • When did it occur? • Where did it occur? Fun fact: The Great Plague is also called the Black Death.

Week 7: The Mongol Empire Week 8: First Novel

• Who started the Mongol Empire? • When did it begin? • When were the Mongols driven from

China? • Bonus: After the Mongols were

driven from China, which Chinese dynasty began?

In 1007, A Japanese woman named Murasaki Shikubu wrote the first novel. It was called The Tale of Genji. It was about a prince in search of love and wisdom. • What is wisdom? • Find Japan on a map. • What is the capital of Japan? Fun fact: The first novel was more than 600,000 words long!

Week 9: The Magna Carta Week 10: Rajendra I

• What is the Magna Carta? • When was it signed? • Which English king signed it? Fun fact: Actually this king was forced by barons to sign the Magna Carta.

In 1014, Rajendra I became king of the Cholas. They were a powerful group of Hindus in Southern India and Sri Lanka. He built a huge temple in Tanjore that housed hundreds of Cholas. • Find the underlined countries on a

map. • What is the capital of each country?


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Week 1: The Vikings Week 2: Gothic Architecture

The Viking people were from what is now Scandinavia. Their age of trade, exploration, and colonization lasted until about 1100. • What countries are part of Scandinavia? • Find a picture of an old Viking longship

and draw your own picture of it. Fun fact: Lief Eriksson was the son of the Viking Erik the Red, who settled Greenland. Lief sailed down the North American coast and named it Vinland in 1000, so he was the first European to discover North America.

Gothic Architecture was popular in Europe from 1200 to 1500. Gothic cathedrals (big churches) are very tall and have pointed arches. They are also bright. • Name two Gothic cathedrals. • Where is each cathedral located? • Look at pictures of them. • Bonus: Gothic churches used

“buttresses” on the outside to support the building. Find out where the buttresses are in your pictures.

Week 3: The Aztecs Week 4: The Crusades

The Aztec Civilization began around 1150 and lasted until 1525, when it was conquered by the Spanish. • Where were the Aztecs located? • What is the name of a major Aztec city? • Find out two facts about the Aztecs.

The Crusades lasted from 1096 until 1291. They were a series of wars that European Christians started. There were 9 Crusades plus a Children’s Crusade. • Against whom did the Christians fight? • What did the Christians want to get

from them?

Week 5: Clothing

Find pictures of clothing worn during the Middle Ages. Draw a picture of a man and a woman in typical medieval clothing. You could choose knights, royalty, or peasants, but be sure to label your people as such.


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Week 6: Battle of Hastings • When was the Battle of Hastings? • Between whom was this battle? • Who won?

Week 7: The Medieval Inquisition Week 8: The Spanish Inquisition

During the Middle Ages, people started expressing opinions and beliefs that went against the Christian teachings, and Christian leaders got very scared. They called these people heretics and they were punished, by death if they didn’t confess and beg forgiveness. This dark time in European and Christian history is called the Inquisition. • When did the medieval Inquisition begin? • Which pope started it?

The Spanish Inquisition was started to punish Jews and Muslims. It was very organized and harsh. Eventually no one in Spain was safe. • When did the Spanish Inquisition begin? • Who started it? • When did it finally end?

Week 9: The Anasazi Culture Week 10: Your Choice

The Native Americans of the Anasazi culture built cliff dwellings in the American Southwest from about 1000 to 1300. These cliff dwellings were so difficult to get into that they protected the Anasazi from the Navajo and other nomadic tribes. The Anasazi are the ancestors of the Pueblo. They were farmers with expert skills at irrigating their crops. • What does irrigation mean? • After looking at a picture of these cliff

dwellings, draw a picture of one.

Choose something that happened during the Middle Ages. Find out eight facts about this event.


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The Rena i s s a n ce 1 : 1325-1599


Week 1: Art of the Renaissance Week 2: The Hundred Years’ War During the Renaissance, artists began working with oil, light, shadows, perspective, and three dimensions. • In what country did the Renaissance begin? • Name three Renaissance artists.

The Hundred Year’s War actually lasted for 116 years! It was mainly about land and control. • What two countries fought in the Hundred

Years’ War? • When did it begin and end?

Week 3: Ming Dynasty Week 4: The Great Schism

• Where was the Ming Dynasty in power? • Who was the first emperor of the Ming

Dynasty? • When did it begin and end? • Find out one interesting fact about the Ming

Dynasty.

The Great Schism was the division of the Christian Church into Western and Eastern branches. • When did the Great Schism occur? • Where was the center of the Western

Church? • Where was the center of the Eastern Church? • What is the Eastern Church called?

Week 5: The Incas Week 6: First Czar of Russia The Inca Empire began around 1200 and lasted until 1532. • Where were the Incas located? • What Spanish man conquered the Inca Empire?

• Who was the first czar of Russia? • When did he come to power? • Find out two facts about him.

Week 7: The Printing Press Week 8: The Protestant Reformation

• Who invented the printing press? • When was it invented? • Where was it invented? Fun fact: The printing press helped ideas and knowledge spread. It especially allowed the ideas of the Protestant Reformation to spread throughout western Europe. (see next week’s assignment)

The Protestant Reformation was a religious revolution that began as a result of disagreements with the medieval Christian Church, which was the Roman Catholic Church. Different branches of Christianity were established after the Reformation. • When did the Protestant Reformation begin? • In what country did it begin? • Who started it?

Week 9: The Church of England Week 10: Your Choice The Reformation quickly spread throughout western Europe. The Church of England, or Anglicanism, is a branch of Protestantism that was formed after the Reformation spread to England. • Which queen established the Church of

England? When?

Choose something that happened during the Renaissance. Find out eight facts about this event.


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Week 1: Artists of the Renaissance Week 2: Age of Exploration Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael are three famous Renaissance artists. • Name one famous work of art created by

each artist. • Try to find pictures of the works of art.

Choose an explorer from this time period and write three paragraphs about him.

Week 3: The Ottoman Empire Week 4: The Byzantine Empire

Find out five facts about the Ottoman Empire.

The Byzantine Empire began in 330. It was a Christian empire and Greek was the most common language. Latin was also spoken. • When did the Byzantine Empire end? • What leader ended the Byzantine

Empire? • What empire replaced it? • What city was destroyed?

Week 5: Oda Nobunaga & Hideyoshi In 1568, a minor lord named, Oda Nobunaga, captured the Japanese capital, Kyoto. In 1573, he dethroned Ashikaga Shogun. He continued fighting other lords until he died in 1582. Hideyoshi was his successor. In nine years, he became the supreme leader of Japan, with no challengers. One year after becoming supreme leader, he invaded Korea. Korea, with the help of China, defeated Japan. • What is a shogun? • What is a successor? • When did Hideyoshi become the supreme leader of Japan? • When did he invade Korea? • Find the underlined places on a map.


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Week 6: King Trailok King Trailok was the ruler of Siam. In 1448, he reformed land laws so that even the poor could own land. He expanded his kingdom after warring with his northern neighbors. He moved his capital to Phisanulok. • What is Siam called today? • What is the capital of this country? • Find this country and Phisanulok on a map. • What countries border modern-day Siam?

Week 7: Clothing Week 8: African Slaves

Find pictures of clothing worn during the Renaissance. Draw a picture of a man and a woman in typical Renaissance clothing.

Slavery has been around since ancient times. But the use of African slaves began around 1440. In the 1400s and 1500s, Portuguese adventurers began exploring the African coast. They began capturing Africans and bringing them back to Portugal as slaves. It didn’t take long for other European countries to do the same. Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, and France began importing African slaves. • Find out three facts about the use of

Africans as slaves in Europe. Week 9: First Slaves Brought to America

Week 10: Your Choice

Initially European settlers in the Americas tried to use Native Americans as slaves, but most of them revolted or escaped. African slaves were first brought to the West Indies in 1562. Slavery was more profitable in the Americas, especially in the Southern Colonies, than in Europe, because of the use of slaves on plantations. • What and where are the West Indies? • What is a plantation?

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The 17 t h Centu ry 1 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: The Mayflower Week 2: The Taj Mahal

• In what year did the Mayflower set sail from England?

• Who was on board? • Why did they want to leave England? • Where did they land? • Draw a picture of the Mayflower.

In 1632, the Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan had people begin constructing the Taj Mahal. It was a memorial tomb for his dead wife, who he loved dearly. Many people consider it the most beautiful building in the world. • In what city and country is the Taj Mahal? • Draw a picture of the Taj Mahal. Fun fact: It took 20,000 people nearly 20 years to complete the Taj Mahal!

Week 3: Manchu Dynasty Week 4: The Dodo Bird

The Manchu Dynasty, also called the Qing Dynasty, began in China in 1644. • When did this long-lasting dynasty end? • Find out two facts about the Manchu

Dynasty.

In 1680, the dodo bird became extinct in the South Pacific. The dodo was clumsy and flightless. It was related to the pigeon but it was the size of a turkey! • What does flightless mean? • Draw a picture of the dodo bird.

Week 5: First Modern Novel Week 6: Jamestown, Virginia

The first modern novel was published in 1605. It is called Don Quixote by Cervantes. • In what country was this novel published. • Name a more recent novel and its author.

Jamestown was the first British colony in mainland America. • When was it established? • Who established it? • Find it on a map.

Week 7: Salem Witch Trials Week 8: Harvard In 1692, the Salem Witch Trials took place. • In what state did these trials take place? • Find out two facts about the trials. Fun fact: The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is a play about the Salem Witch Trials.

In 1636, Harvard was founded. It was the first university in what eventually became the United States. • In what city and state is Harvard located? • What college would you like to go to? Why?

Week 9: Clothing Week 10: Your Choice Find pictures of clothing worn during the 1600s. Draw a picture of a man and a woman in typical 17th Century clothing. Underneath the pictures, write which country you would find people dressed like this.

Choose something that happened during the 1600s. Find out eight facts about this event.


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Week 1: Baroque Art Week 2: Quebec Settled Baroque art is full of movement and emotion. It is very dramatic. Rubens and Rembrandt are famous Baroque artists. • Name a work of art created by Rubens and

find a picture of it. • Name a work of art by Rembrandt and find

a picture of it.

• Which country settled Quebec and made it one of their colonies?

• Who led the exploration? • When did this happen? Fun fact: In 1759, the British captured Quebec after many unsuccessful attempts.

Week 3: The Thirty Years’ War Week 4: American Exploration The Thirty Years’ War was a religious war that followed the Protestant Reformation. • Where did the Thirty Years’ War take

place? • What two religions fought against each

other? • When did the war begin and end? • What treaty ended the war? Fun fact: Germany lost about half of its population as a result of the fighting and pestilence during the Thirty Years’ War.

During the 1600s: 1. Champlain explored the Maine coast. 2. Henry Hudson explored the Hudson River. 3. William Baffin explored Baffin Bay. 4. Nicolet explored Lake Michigan. 5. Marquette and Jolliet explored the

Arkansas River. 6. De La Salle explored the Mississippi River. • Locate each underlined place on a map. • Choose one of the explorations and find

out three things about it or the explorer. Week 5: The British East India Company In 1603, the East India Company was started by Queen Elizabeth I for British trade with Asia. Traders from the Netherlands had a monopoly on the spice trade in Asia, and the British wanted to break into their monopoly. In 1623, some British traders were killed by some Dutch ones. Then the East India Company decided to concentrate only on trade with India, where it established its own monopoly. It made a lot of money, especially on importing fabric into England. • Find the underlined places on a map. • If the place is a country, what is its capital? If it is not a country, what is it? • What is a monopoly? Bonus: Describe how to play the game Monopoly.


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Week 6: Galileo Galilei Galileo was one of the most important scientists of his day. He discovered Jupiter’s 4 moons, the phases of Venus, the composition of the Milky Way, and the Sun’s rotation. In 1633, he was imprisoned in his home for going against the church with his belief that the Earth revolved around the Sun. He continued to work, mainly with mechanics. He discovered how to use a pendulum to keep time. • Draw a pendulum. • When was the telescope invented? Week 7: The Slave Triangle Week 8: Shakespeare The slave trade moved in a triangle. British ships left Britain for the western coast of Africa. There they exchanged goods for slaves. Then the slaves were brought on a brutal journey to the West Indies or to the colonies of North or South America. At the American ports the slaves were traded for agricultural staples for the return trip back to England. The first ship with African slaves arrived in Virginia in 1619. In America the slaves were worked very hard on plantations owned by European settlers. • Find out eight facts about slavery in the

American colonies.

William Shakespeare was born on Stratford-upon-Avon, England in 1564. He is a famous English playwright and poet. He wrote at least 37 plays and 154 love poems. He died in 1616. There are many famous lines from his works that we use everyday, such as:

“To be or not to be; that is the question.” “To thine own self be true.”

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” • Name four plays written by Shakespeare. • Bonus: Choose one of the quotations

above and explain what it means.

Week 9: Abel Tasman Week 10: First Newspaper In 1642, Abel Tasman explored Australia, Tasmania, and sighted New Zealand. • From what country was Abel Tasman? • Draw a map of Australia. • Who are the native people of Australia? • Who are the native people of New

Zealand?

The first newspaper was published in Germany in 1609. It was called The Relation. • Why are newspapers important? • Read one newspaper article this week and

summarize it in one or two paragraphs.


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The 18 t h Cen t u r y 1


Week 1: The Age of Enlightenment Week 2: Encyclopédie The Age of Enlightenment describes a period in history when the scientific and intellectual developments of the 1600s were shared with the reading public. The center of the Enlightenment was Paris, but the Enlightenment spread through Europe and America. It influenced how people thought, learned, and behaved during the 1700s. • Name five important people of the Age of

Enlightenment.

The publication of the Encyclopédie, by Denis Diderot, began in France in 1751. It was called the “bible of the Enlightenment.” • In your own words, what is an encyclopedia? • About what are you interested in learning?

Learn about it in an Encyclopedia. Write one paragraph about what you learned.

Week 3: The Dictionary Week 4: The French and Indian War

The first dictionary was published by Samuel Johnson in 1755. • Learn seven new words from the dictionary.

Write each word in a sentence. Fun fact: That was the same year the US Postal Service was formed.

From 1756 to 1763, the French and Indian War was fought over the American frontier and Canada. The French allied with Native Americans and fought against British colonists. In the end, France lost Canada to Britain. • Find out five facts about this war. Fun fact: This war in America relates to the Seven Years’ War in Europe, when Britain and Prussia defeated France, Spain, Austria, and Russia. France lost its American colonies. Britain got Florida from Spain, and Spain got Cuba in return.

Week 5: James Cook Week 6: The Declaration of Independence

James Cook explored New Zealand in 1769. He reached Australia in 1770. He crossed the Antarctic Circle in 1772. He explored Hawaii in 1778. • Find the four underlined places on a map. • Draw 1 map: either of Hawaii or of New Zealand.

• When was the Declaration of Independence signed?

• Who are some of the important people who signed it?

• Draw a picture of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Week 7: The Boston Tea Party Week 8: Catherine the Great

• What was the Boston Tea Party? • When did it occur? • Draw a picture of the Boston Tea Party.

Catherine the Great came to power in Russia in 1762. She did a lot to change Russia into a powerful country in Europe. • Find out five things Catherine the Great did to

improve Russia. Week 9: The American Revolution Week 10: Your Choice Write a research paper about the American Revolution.



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Week 1: The French Revolution Week 2: The American Revolution The French middle class (bourgeoisie) were frustrated with the aristocracy (the highest class) and with King Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette. They were not very fair rulers. The people wanted a Constitution and a reformed government, so they began the French Revolution. • When did the French Revolution begin and

end? • When did the French people storm the

Bastille? • Who became the First Consul of France

when the revolution ended? Fun fact: The same year the French Revolution began, George Washington was elected the first President of the United States.

Draw two colorful pictures: one of a colonial soldier in uniform and one of a British soldier in uniform.

Week 3: British Empire in India Week 4: The Stamp Act In 1757, a British commander, Robert Clive, defeated Nawab of Bengal to begin the British colonial rule of India. • When did India gain independence from

Britain? • How long was India a part of the British

Empire?

In 1765, the British government forced the Stamp Act on the American colonists. What was the Stamp Act? Why did this make the colonists so angry? Bonus: What does “taxation without representation” mean?

Week 5: Battle of Lexington and Concord

• When was the Battle of Lexington and Concord? • In what state did it take place? • Who fought against each other? • What war did it begin? • When did that war end?


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Week 6: The Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was not a revolution like the French Revolution was! It is called a revolution because there were huge changes. It describes the time when society changed from mainly a farming and trading society to an industrial (manufacturing) society. During this time simple tools were replaced by newly invented complex machinery. The Industrial Revolution began in Britain around 1750 and gradually spread to different parts of the world. • Make a table with three columns: Invention, Inventor, Date. • Complete the chart with six important inventions from the Industrial Revolution.

Week 7: Tibet Week 8: Australia

Tibet was conquered by China in 1750. Tibet is still struggling for independence. • What mountain range goes through

Tibet? • Find the underlined places on a map. • Find out three facts about Tibet.

The Aborigines had already been living in Australia for about 40,000 years before the Europeans arrived there. In 1788, the British founded a colony in New South Wales, Australia. • Find out three facts about the

Aborigines. • Name a city in New South Wales. • Find the underlined places on a map.

Week 9: Your Choice Week 10: The Code Napoléon


The Code Napoléon was introduced by Napoléon in about 1800. It was based on Roman civil law. It was the first set of modern rules for society. It was used in all the territories that Napoléon controlled and in Spain (and Spain’s colonies). • What countries did Napoléon, as

Emperor of France, control before he was defeated at Waterloo?


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The 19 t h Century 1 Part 1 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences. Find the underlined places on a map.

Week 1: Impressionist Art Week 2: Slavery Impressionist artists were very concerned with light, color, and nature. They often depicted the same nature scene many times: at different times of day under different lighting. • Where was most Impressionist art created? • Name three Impressionist artists. • Name a famous work by each artist.

Unfortunately slavery was common in many places around the world, especially during and after the Age of Exploration. • When was slavery abolished in the British

Empire? • When were serfs freed in Russia? (Serfs

are similar to slaves.) Week 3: The Industrial Revolution Following the British lead, the Industrial Revolution in the US was at its peak after the Civil War until the late 1800s. Inventions in transportation helped move the Industrial Revolution along. • When and where was the steam locomotive invented? • The Baltimore & Ohio was the first railroad in the US. When did it open? • When was the automobile invented? Fun fact: The “golden age” of railroads in the US began around 1865. By 1916, there were 254,000 miles of railroad tracks in the US! Week 4: The Trail of Tears The Cherokee Indian tribe lived in Georgia. More and more white settlers moved to Georgia and they wanted land. They believed there was gold there. A law was passed to force the Cherokees from their homes to Oklahoma. The Cherokee nation fought the law in the Supreme Court and won, but a few members of the tribe secretly signed a treaty with the white settlers. In 1838 the treaty was accepted by the Senate. Several thousand Cherokees died on the long, hard walk to Oklahoma. • Try to find out how many miles it is between Atlanta, Georgia and Oklahoma City. • Why do you think it called the Trail of Tears? Fun fact: Davy Crockett, a Congressman from Tennessee, supported the Cherokees. Because of that, his political career was ruined, and he left Washington, D.C. for Texas. Week 5: The American Civil War (Part 1) There were 11 states that broke away from the Union (the North) to form the Confederate States of America (the South) to begin the Civil War. • Why did these states break away (secede) from the Union? • Which 11 states made up the Confederate States of America (also called the Confederacy)? • For each of the six people, decide if he is part of the Union or the Confederacy:

Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, “Stonewall” Jackson, William Sherman


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Week 6: The American Civil War (Part 2) • At which Fort did the Confederates shoot at to begin the Civil War on April 12, 1961? • Choose one of the following battles and find out 5 facts about it:

First Battle of Bull Run or Second Battle of Bull Run • Choose one of the following battles and find out 5 facts about it:

Gettysburg or Vicksburg • When and where did General Lee surrender to General Grant? The end of the Civil War meant that slavery was abolished and the 11 states that broke away from the Union rejoined it. Week 7: Battle of Little Bighorn Week 8: Battle of Wounded Knee

This was a battle between two Native American tribes and Colonel George Custer’s troops. They were fighting over the Native American’s land. • What two tribes fought against Col. Custer? • Who won? • The Little Bighorn is a river. Through what

two states does it flow?

This was the last big battle of the Indian wars. United States troops captured a group of Sioux Indians. The troops disarmed the Native Americans. After one of the Sioux Indians pulled a gun on one of the U. S. officers, the troops shot nearly 200 Sioux men, women, and children. • When did the battle take place? • In what state did it take place?

Week 9: Women Granted Voting Rights Week 10: The Spanish-American War

• In what country were women first granted the right to vote?

• In what year did this important event occur? • When were women in the United States

granted the right to vote? • Which amendment to the US Constitution

granted women the right to vote?

Cuba was under Spanish control during the Colonial Era. The United States supported Cuba’s fight for independence. In 1898, the US Congress declared that Cuba was independent from Spain. Then Spain declared war on the US. On July 3, 1898, the Spanish fleet was defeated off the coast of Santiago, Cuba, and Spain surrendered. In the Treaty of Paris, the US was given Puerto Rico and Guam and they agreed to pay $20 million for the Philippines. Also Cuba gained independence from Spain and was under US military control for three years. • Find the underlined places on a map.


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Week 1: Impressionist Artists Week 2: The Louisiana Purchase Claude Monet is probably the most famous Impressionist artist. • Find a picture of one of his works and copy it

to the best of your ability. • From what country is Claude Monet?

• What was the Louisiana Purchase? • When did it take place? • How much money changed hands?

Week 3: The Missouri Compromise Week 4: The War of 1812 • What was the Missouri Compromise? • When was the compromise made?

Write three paragraphs about the War of 1812.

Week 5: Battle of Waterloo Week 6: The Alamo • When and where was the Battle of

Waterloo? • Who was defeated at the Battle of

Waterloo? • Where was he sent after he was defeated?

• Who fought at the Alamo? • When? • Why were they fighting? • When did Texas become a part of the

United States? Week 7: The Potato Famine Week 8: The Emancipation Proclamation A plant disease destroyed the very important potato crop in a country in the 1800s. • When and where did the Potato Famine

occur? • How long did it last? Fun fact: About 1,200,000 people left the country because of the terrible potato famine. Most of them immigrated to the United States.

• What did the Emancipation Proclamation say about the states that were still fighting against the Union in the Civil War?

• Which president issued it? • When? • What is the thirteenth amendment? • When was it added to the Constitution?

Week 9: The Industrial Revolution Week 10: Independence in South America During the Industrial Revolution, society, the economy, and the labor force (the workers) changed. The changes took place because of the huge number of inventions and technological innovations. All over factories were set up using large-scale machine production. • What is the assembly line? • Who invented the assembly line? When?

Simón Bolívar was born in 1783 in Venezuela. In the 1800s, he helped Venezuela, Peru, and Colombia gain independence from Spain. In southern Peru a separate country was formed in his honor. • What is the name of this country? • Find each underlined country on a map. • What is the capital of each country?


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Week 1: The Automobile Week 2: Titanic

• How did people get around before the automobile was invented?

• When and where was the first automobile invented? (Hint: Henry Ford did not invent the automobile. He invented a way to make them easier and faster.)

• Draw a picture of an early automobile. • Draw a picture of your family car. How

has the automobile changed?

On the maiden voyage (first trip) of the Titanic, it hit an iceberg and sank. More than 1,500 people drowned. • What year did the Titanic sink? • From where did the boat leave? • Where was it headed? • Draw a picture of the Titanic. Fun fact: New Mexico and Arizona were admitted as states the same year the Titanic sank.

Week 3: World War I Week 4: Pearl Harbor

• When did world war I begin and end? • What countries fought on each side in the

war? • What treaty ended the war? • Find out three facts about World War I.

• When did the bombing of Pearl Harbor occur?

• Where is Pearl Harbor? • During what war was it? • Who did the bombing?

Week 7: The Cold War

The Cold War began at the end of World War II and ended in 1989, when the eastern Communist bloc began to fall apart. It was a long power struggle between communism and capitalist democracy. Both sides were very suspicious of each other, so they built up huge nuclear weapons arsenals in case war between them broke out. • What European countries were part of the Communist Bloc? • When did the U. S. S. R., also called the Soviet Union, break apart? • Who was the leader of the U. S. S. R. at the end of the cold war? • Bonus: For what did the U. S. S. R. stand? Fun fact: The term “iron curtain” was first used by Winston Churchill to refer to the invisible division between the eastern Communist countries and the western democratic countries in Europe.


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Week 6: The Civil Rights Movement 1 Long after the Civil War, African Americans continued to be treated as second-class citizens. African Americans needed to fight (using sit-ins, protests, marches, and speeches) to be treated fairly in all areas of life. Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were important Civil Rights leaders. • What is Rosa Parks famous for doing? • When? • Find out five facts about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. • Bonus: Find out more about the sit-ins and protests during the Civil Rights Movement. Week 7: The Civil Rights Movement 2 Week 8: Rock & Roll The Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education, in 1954 is considered the beginning of the modern Civil Rights movement. In 1964, President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. • What did the ruling on the Brown v. Board

of Education case make illegal? • What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964

make illegal? Fun fact: Thurgood Marshall was the NAACP lawyer on the Brown v. Board of Education case. Later he returned to the Supreme Court as the nation’s first African American justice!

Rock ‘n roll started in the 1950s in the US. “Rock Around the Clock,” by Bill Haley and the Comets was the first popular rock ‘n roll record. Other early rock ‘n roll songs were “Shake, Rattle, and Roll,” “Good Golly Miss Molly,“ “Great Balls of Fire,” and “Blue Suede Shoes.” • Listen to at least one of the songs above. • Who are the four members of the

Beatles? Fun fact: “Rock Around the Clock” was the theme song for the hit TV show “Happy Days.”

Week 9: Astronauts Land on the Moon Week 10: Clothing • When did astronauts first land on the

moon? • What astronauts were involved in the

journey? • What was their space shuttle named? • How long does it take to fly in a rocket to

the moon?

Find pictures of clothing worn in America during the 1950s. Draw a picture of a boy and a girl in typical 1950s clothing.


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Week 1: Clothing Week 2: Invention Find pictures of clothing worn in America during the 1920s. Draw a picture of a man and a woman in typical 1920s clothing.

Choose something that was invented in the 1900s and write three paragraphs about the invention.

Week 3: The Great Depression Week 4: The Holocaust The Great Depression occurred after the huge stock-market crash in 1929. It lasted very long. At the worst part of the depression, around 1933, there were 16 million unemployed Americans. The New Deal helped the United States recover, but business didn’t fully recover until the early 1940s. At that time the country began preparing for World War II, so the money spent on defense got the economy going again and the war effort provided lots of jobs. The depression in America spread to many other parts of the world. It hit especially hard in Europe because they were still trying to recover from World War I. • Which president came up with the New

Deal? • How did the New Deal help the US get out

of the Great Depression?

From 1933 to 1945, the Nazis killed 6 million Jews and around 9 million Poles, Ukranians, Belarussians, Gypsies, Communists, disabled people, and people who openly went against the Nazis. They killed people just because of their religion, race, ethnicity, nationality, opinions, and mental and physical ability. This is a very dark time in history, but some people were courageous enough to stand up to the Nazis and help the Jews. Raoul Wallenberg, Oskar Schindler, Chiune Sugihara, and the country of Denmark helped rescue hundreds of Jews. • During which war did the Holocaust occur? • Choose one of the courageous individuals

above (in bold). Write two paragraphs about how he helped to save Jews during the Holocaust.

Week 5: Music to Help Ease Hunger During the 1980’s many musicians joined together to raise money for famine in Ethiopia. Some performed at benefit concerts, such as Live Aid. Others, such as USA for Africa and Band Aid, recorded music on benefit albums. Band Aid included nearly 40 top musicians from England and Ireland. USA for Africa was led by Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, and Lionel Richie, and included many other musicians like Diana Ross, Bette Midler, Paul Simon, and Stevie Wonder. Together they recorded “We are the World.” Top Canadian musicians formed the group called Northern Lights and recorded the song “Tears are not Enough” on the “We are the World” album. • Try to listen to one of the songs in bold and pay close attention to the words. • What do you think they meant when they named their band Band Aid? • What do you think the title, “Tears are not Enough,” means?


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Week 6: The United Nations The purpose of the United Nations is to: help countries get along with each other, promote peace around the world, and encourage countries to cooperate to solve economic, social, cultural, and humanitarian problems. • After which war the United Nations formed? • Name someplace in the world where the United Nations is trying to keep the peace. • Why does cooperation help to solve problems? Week 7: The Fall of the Berlin Wall Week 8: The Internet After World War II, Germany was divided into East Germany and West Germany. The government of East Germany was communism and the West Germany was a democracy. In the late 1980s, communism began to crumble in eastern Europe. In late 1989, thousands of East Germans illegally left their country, traveled through Czechoslovakia, Poland, or Hungary, and emigrated to West Germany. • When was the Berlin Wall built? • On what date did the Germans begin to tear it

down? Fun fact: East and West Germany finally reunified on October 3, 1990.

Before there was the Internet, there was the ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency). It went online in 1969. It connected four universities in the US. It was designed for research, education, and government organizations. It provided a communications network linking the country in case a military attack destroyed traditional communications networks. The Internet was invented in 1973, but it didn’t become user-friendly until 1991. • What is the Internet? • What do you like about the Internet? Fun facts: Electronic mail was first introduced in 1972! In 1996, there were about 45 million people in the world using the Internet. In 1999, there were 150 million!

Week 9: Women’s Rights Week 10: The Sydney 2000 Olympics The first Women’s Rights Convention was held in Seneca Falls, NY in 1848. Seneca Falls is considered the birthplace of Women’s Rights in the US. Already in 1848, women began fighting for their right to vote, but it was a long time before they finally got it. • When were women finally allowed to vote in the

United States? • Which amendment granted them the right to

vote? The Women’s Rights Movement started up again in the late 1950s. Women had to fight to be treated equally in business and in society. • When did Congress pass the Equal Rights

Amendment (the ERA)? • What did it forbid?

Many call the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, “the best games ever.” The largest number of countries in history participated: 200! Also there was a record number of athletes: 16,000! Forty thousand volunteers worked together to make it all possible! • Write a story about something you enjoyed

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When d id that take p lace? 1 Each week, find out the following information about the event given: 1. When did the event occur? 2. In what country did the event occur? Find the country on a map. 3. On what continent is the country located? 4. Describe the event in two or three sentences. 5. Why is the event important? You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences on your paper or in your composition book.

Week 1 Week 2

The French Revolution The Mayflower sets sail to North America

Week 3 Week 4

The building of the Pyramids at Giza

The end of the Inca Empire

Week 5 Week 6

Salem witch trials Travel along the Oregon Trail

Week 7 Week 8

USA and Mexico fight over Texas

India gains independence from Great Britain

Week 9 Week 10

Treaty of Waitangi signed The Vietnam War


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When d id that take p lace? 2 Each week, find out the following information about the event given: 1. When did the event occur? 2. In what country did the event occur? Find the country on a map. 3. On what continent is the country located? 4. Describe the event in two or three sentences. 5. Why is the event important? You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences on your paper or in your composition book.

Week 1 Week 2

First automobile The Civil War in the United States

Week 3 Week 4

Mexico wins independence from Spain

Opening of the Suez Canal

Week 5 Week 6

The American Revolution World War I

Week 7 Week 8

D-Day First recorded Olympic Games

Week 9 Week 10

Chinese Revolution Battle of Wounded Knee


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L i terature 1 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2

Who wrote the Curious George books? Write your own adventure for Curious George. Draw a picture to illustrate your story.

Who wrote the Clifford books? Write your own adventure for Clifford. Draw a picture to illustrate your story.

Week 3 Week 4

Who wrote the Madeline books? Write your own adventure for Madeline. Draw a picture to illustrate your story.

Who wrote Winnie-the-Pooh? Write your own adventure for Winnie-the-Pooh. Draw a picture to illustrate your story.

Week 5 Week 6

Who wrote The Jungle Book? Write your own adventure for Mowgli. Draw a picture to illustrate your story.

Who wrote Where the Wild Things Are? Write your own adventure for Max. Draw a picture to illustrate your story.

Week 7 Week 8

Who wrote Eloise? Write your own adventure for Eloise. Draw a picture to illustrate your story.

Who wrote Lyle, Lyle Crocodile? Write your own adventure for Lyle. Draw a picture to illustrate your story.

Week 9 Week 10

Who wrote James and the Giant Peach? Write your own adventure for James. Draw a picture to illustrate your story.

Who wrote Stuart Little? Write your own adventure for Stuart Little. Draw a picture to illustrate your story.


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L i terature 2 Part 1 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Amelia Bedelia Week 2: Encyclopedia Brown Amelia Bedelia is a maid with a good sense of humor. She understands all her orders literally. That means she does EXACTLY what she is told to do. For example, when she is asked to change the towels, she cuts holes in them to change how they look! Amelia Bedelia teaches us that there are different ways to understand things. • Who wrote the Amelia Bedelia series? • Read a book from the Amelia Bedelia

series.

Encyclopedia Brown is the nickname for the 10-year-old boy named Leroy Brown. He is the main character in the Encyclopedia Brown series. He is a young detective who never misses a clue. He is so clever that he solves every case. • Who wrote the Encyclopedia Brown series? • Be creative and think of your own mystery

for Encyclopedia Brown to solve. Write a short story about it.

Week 3: Alice Week 4: Ramona Alice is a young girl in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. She falls down a rabbit hole and has many curious adventures. • Who is the author of Alice’s Adventures in

Wonderland? • Be creative and think of your own

adventure for Alice. Write a short story about it.

Ramona Geraldine Quimby is a very active, and sometimes naughty, young girl. She has an older sister, named Beezus. Ramona’s parents think she is a perfect darling! They always forgive Ramona when she acts up. • Who is the author of the Ramona series? • Why is it important to forgive others?

Week 5: Charlie Charlie Bucket is the main character in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He is a poor boy who lives in a small apartment with a large family. He absolutely loves chocolate. He wins a prize and gets to take a tour of Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory! • Who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? • Have you ever won anything? If so, describe what you won and how it made you feel. • Pretend you are Charlie and you just finished your tour of the chocolate factory. Write

Willy Wonka a thank-you note.


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L i terature 2 Part 2 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 6: Dorothy Dorothy is the main character in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. She and her dog, Toto, live in Kansas, but are blown to the Land of Oz in a tornado. They have many adventures and meet many interesting people before they find their way home.

• Who wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz? • If you know this story, then write about who your favorite character is and why. • If you don’t know the story then write about why “there is no place like home.” Week 7: Charlotte Week 8: Nancy Drew Charlotte is a spider in Charlotte’s Web. She lives in a barn. A pig, named Wilbur, also lives in the barn. Charlotte saves Wilbur’s life, and everyone on the farm learns the meaning of friendship.

• Who wrote Charlotte’s Web? • What do you think it means to be a good

friend?

Nancy Drew is a young detective. Her father is a lawyer and she helps him with his cases. She is very clever.

• Who wrote the Nancy Drew series? • Find out the name of the first book in the

series. • Can you find out how many books in all there

are in the series? Week 9: Tom Sawyer Week 10: Laura Tom Sawyer is the main character in the novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is a young, adventurous boy living in Missouri along the Mississippi River during the 1800s.

• Who wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer? • Find Missouri and the Mississippi River on a

map. • Describe your own adventure set in Missouri

in the 1800s. • Bonus: The author’s name is a pen name.

Pen names are made-up name that writers sometimes use. Try to find out the author’s real name.

Laura Ingalls Wilder is the author of the Little House on the Prairie series. She is also the main character. She travels with her family from Wisconsin through the western frontier in the late 1800s.

• What is the title of the first book in the series?

• Either ask a parent to read one of the Little House on the Prairie chapter books OR read one of the Little House on the Prairie books for young readers on your own.


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Week 1: Aesop Week 2: Hans Christian Anderson Paul Bunyan is an American legend. He is a gigantic, powerful lumberjack who appears in many “tall tales” about the American North and Northwest. He has a pet ox named Babe, who is blue. • Retell one of the “tall tales” about Paul Bunyan

or draw a picture of what you think Paul Bunyan and Babe looked like.

Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author who lived in the 1800s. He wrote many popular fairy tales. A fairy tale is a story that shows a hero or heroine triumphing over adversity, sometimes with the help of a fairy or other supernatural creature. • Retell one of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy

tales, such as “The Ugly Duckling” or “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”

Week 3: Maya Angelou Week 4: Emily Dickinson Maya Angelou is a modern American writer know for her autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. She also wrote many poems. • Find a poem by Maya Angelou and write it in

your composition book.

Emily Dickinson was an American poet of the 1800s. She wrote poetry that was short and simple. • Find one of her poems and write it in your

composition book. Week 5: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Week 6: Mother Goose Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were two brothers who lived in Germany in the early 1800s. They wrote a famous collection called Grimm’s Fairy Tales, which contains the stories they heard from the peasants they met. • Retell one of Grimm’s fairy tales, such as

“Hansel and Gretel” or “Snow White.”

Mother Goose is the name for the make-believe person who is supposed to have first told nursery rhymes to children. In fact, several people collected and told these songs and poems. Nursery rhymes have been repeated by many generations. We no longer know who wrote them. • Write your favorite nursery rhyme in your

composition book. Week 7: Paul Bunyon Week 8: J. M. Barrie Aesop was a Greek storyteller who is known for the fables he told. Animals are the main characters. They act like people and their actions teach a lesson or moral about human life. • Retell one of Aesop’s fables.

The Scottish author, J. M. Barrie, wrote Peter Pan, a play about a boy who never wants to grow up. • Write 3 paragraphs about what you want to do

when you grow up.

Week 9: Robin Hood Week 10: Dr. Seuss Robin Hood is a part of a legend. He was an English outlaw who stole from the rich to give to the poor. There are many poor people in the world. • Think of something you could do to help people

who have less material things than you do.

Dr. Seuss is the pen name of the American writer Theodore Seuss Geisel. Reread one of the Dr. Seuss books (for example, The Cat in the Hat or How the Grinch Stole Christmas). • Write a story in the style of Dr. Seuss.


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L i terature 4 On your paper or in your composition book, answer the following questions each week: 1. When was the author born? 2. From what country is he or she? 3. Name two books that he or she wrote. 4. Find out one interesting fact about the author. Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2

Roald Dahl Mark Twain

Week 3 Week 4

Louisa May Alcott Jack London

Week 5 Week 6

Charles Dickens C. S. Lewis

Week 7 Week 8

Virg in ia Woolfe Herman Melv i l le

Week 9 Week 10

John Steinbeck Toni Morr ison


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Week 1: Achilles Week 2: Adonis Achilles was the greatest Greek warrior in the Trojan War. He was invincible, except for his one weak spot, his heel. We use the term “Achilles’ heel” to describe a weakness in a person’s character. • Think about what you believe to be your

weakness, and write a paragraph describing that weakness.

Adonis was a Greek youth who was extremely handsome. We call any young man who is extremely handsome an Adonis. The saying “Beauty is only skin deep” was not a part of Greek mythology. • Think of someone who is very beautiful, and then

decide if his/her “beauty” is only superficial or “skin deep.”

Week 3: Atlas Week 4: Icarus and Daedalus Atlas was a giant who rebelled against the gods. He was punished and forced to hold up the earth and sky on his shoulders for eternity. A book of maps is an Atlas. • Look in the Atlas and write the continent each of

these places can be found. 1. Nile River 5. Ural Mountains 2. Amazon River 6. Alps 3. Mississippi River 7. Himalayas 4. Danube River 8. Andes

Icarus was the son of Daedalus, the great inventor. Daedalus made wings of wax used to help them escape from the island where they were imprisoned. Daedalus warned his son not to fly too close to the sun. Icarus did not listen, and the heat of the sun melted his wings. He fell into the sea and drowned. • Think of a time that your parents warned you

about a danger. Did you listen to them? Why or why not? What happened?

Week 5: Daedalus Week 6: Hercules Daedalus was a famous Greek inventor who built the Labyrinth, which is a great maze from which no one could escape. This idea is used in English gardens, and recently as a children’s puzzle. • Draw a maze with a start and finish. Dedicate

your maze to Daedalus.

Hercules was the strongest man in the world. He was one of the greatest Greek heroes. • Write a paper about your hero. Describe the

characteristics that make this person a hero to you.

Week 7: Cyclops Week 8: Mercury

Cyclops were giants with only one eye, right in the middle of the forehead. • Draw a picture of a Cyclops.

Mercury was the messenger of the gods. The planet closest to the sun is named Mercury because it moves quickly in its orbit around the sun. • Write a research paper on the planet Mercury.

Week 9: Minotaur Week 10: Pandora’s Box

The Minotaur was a terrible monster, half man and half bull. He was kept in the Labyrinth to kill anyone who entered. • Describe a beast of your imagination, combining

parts of different animals. Be very descriptive.

Pandora’s Box was a box that was given to the first woman. She was warned never to open it, but her curiosity caused her to open it. All the evils and miseries of the world (such as sorrow, disease, and hatred) flew out. At the bottom of the box was hope. • What is the greatest evil we face today?


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Un i t ed S ta t e s H i s t o r y 1

On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.”

Week 1: Johnny Appleseed Week 2: Cherokees

Johnny Appleseed was the nickname of an American pioneer and folk hero, who lived in the early 1800s. He planted apple trees as he traveled through frontier America. His real name was John Chapman. • Research the apple. Write as many facts as you

can about the apple.

Cherokees are an American Indian people who lived in the southeastern United States. In the 1830s, the American government forced the Cherokees to move west to Oklahoma. Many died on the way. This forced journey is called the Trail of Tears. • Write a research paper on the Cherokee Indians.

Find out at least 10 facts about them. Week 3: John Wilkes Booth Week 4: Daniel Boone John Wilkes Booth was the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. He was an actor. Other famous people have been assassinated. • How many can you list? • Write the name of the assassin if you know it.

Daniel Boone was a pioneer who lived in the late 1700s and early 1800s. He explored and settled Kentucky. • Find out 5 facts about the state of Kentucky.

Week 5: Davy Crockett Week 6: Benjamin Franklin Davy Crockett was a frontier settler, a politician, and a folk hero of the early 1800s. He was born in Tennessee and died defending the Alamo, a building in San Antonio, Texas. Texas belonged to Mexico at this time. A small group of Americans, including Davy Crockett, fought a much larger Mexican army. They fought until each American was killed. • Find out 5 facts about the state of Tennessee.

Benjamin Franklin was one of the most talented men in American history. Many of his sayings, such as “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise” are still quoted today. He was also a printer, patriot, statesman, author, scientist, and inventor. • Write about his most famous experiment that

proved that lightning was electricity. Week 7: Hiawatha Week 8: Meriwether Lewis & William Clark

Hiawatha was an Onondaga chief who founded the Iroquois League. This was an alliance of five (eventually six) American Indian peoples who were warriors and fur traders in northern New York state. • Research and find the names of the six tribes.

Meriwether Lewis & William Clark were sent by President Thomas Jefferson to explore the land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase. They explored the land west of the Mississippi River. • Write a list of all the states west of the

Mississippi River. Week 9: Betsy Ross Week 10: Harriet Tubman Betsy Ross was a seamstress who lived in Philadelphia. It is said that she made the first American flag in the form of the stars and stripes. • Draw a picture of the American flag. • How many stripes are there? • What do they represent? • How many stars are there? • What do they represent?

Harriet Tubman was an escaped slave who helped hundreds of other slaves win their freedom through the underground railroad, which was not a “railroad” at all. • Explain what the underground railroad was and

how it helped slaves escape.


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Un i ted States H i s to ry 2 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Eskimos Week 2: Annie Oakley Eskimos include many different tribes of native people living in Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. Many Eskimos live in snow huts. • What are these snow huts called? • Find out three facts about Eskimos. • What is the capital of Alaska?

Annie Oakley was born in 1860. She was a rodeo star and a sharpshooter. She was part of Buffalo Bill’s famous Wild West Show and traveled the world. She was partly paralyzed by a train crash but kept entertaining until she died in 1926. • What is a rodeo? • Draw a picture of a rodeo.

Week 3: George Washington Week 4: Abraham Lincoln Write a research paper about George Washington.

Write a research paper about Abraham Lincoln.

Week 5: Tecumseh Week 6: Susan B. Anthony Tecumseh was a Native American leader. He united all the Native Americans to try to keep their land from being taken by the European settlers. The unification fell apart after they lost the Battle of Tippecanoe. He is considered one of the greatest Native Americans in history. • When was Tecumseh born and when did he die? • Of what tribe was he a leader? • When was the Battle of Tippecanoe?

Susan B. Anthony was a woman’s rights leader. She believed in the woman’s rights to vote and own property. She and Elizabeth Cody Stanton started the National Woman Suffrage Association. She also worked in the anti-slavery movement. • When was she born? • She appears on a United States coin. How

much is the coin worth? • What does suffrage mean?

Week 7: Duke Ellington Week 8: Linus Pauling

Duke Ellington was a jazz pianist and composer. He was the first African American composer to write film soundtracks. • Listen to a Duke Ellington song. • Find out an interesting fact about him.

Linus Pauling was a chemist who won both a Nobel Prize for Chemistry AND a Nobel Prize for Peace. He opposed the use of nuclear arms, so he started a petition and it was signed by 11,021 scientists from 49 countries! • What is a petition?

Week 9: Harry Houdini Week 10: Hiram Bingham Houdini moved from Hungary to the US. He asked to be tied up with ropes and chains, handcuffed, locked inside a trunk, and put underwater. Even though everyone thought it was impossible, he got up. • Have you ever done something that people

thought you couldn’t do? Write about it.

Hiram Bingham was born in Hawaii. He was an explorer and an archaeologist. He discovered the lost Incan city of Machu Picchu. • Find out 5 facts about Hawaii.


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Un ited States H istory 3: Ear ly Amer ica On your paper or in your composition book, answer the following questions about the person each week: 1. From what state is this person? 2. When was he born? 3. What was her job? 4. Why is he important? Write your answers in complete sentences.

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Thomas Jefferson Wi l l iam Penn

Week 3 Week 4

Paul Revere John Smith

Week 5 Week 6

Frederick Douglas James Monroe

Week 7 Week 8

Andrew Jackson Ulysses S. Grant

Week 9 Week 10

George Custer Sojourner Truth


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United States H istory 4: Enterta inment On your paper or in your composition book, answer the following questions about the person each week: 1. From what state is this person? 2. When was he born? 3. What was her job? 4. Why is he important? Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2

Michael Jordan Georgia O’Keefe

Week 3 Week 4

Mohammad Al i Frank L loyd Wright

Week 5 Week 6

Edgar Al len Poe Janet Evans

Week 7 Week 8

Jesse Owens “Babe” Didr ikson

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Henry David Thoreau Ansel Adams


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United States H istory 5 On your paper or in your composition book, answer the following questions about the person each week: 1. From what state is this person? 2. When was he born? 3. What was her job? 4. Why is he important? Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2

Grace Hopper John F. Kennedy

Week 3 Week 4

Clara Barton Frankl in D. Roosevelt

Week 5 Week 6

Chief Joseph ( N a t i v e A m e r i c a n l e a d e r )

Ulysses S. Grant

Week 7 Week 8

Wil l iam “Buffalo Bi l l ” Cody

Mary Baker Eddy

Week 9 Week 10

P. T. Barnum Bi l l Gates


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Week 1: Alexander the Great Week 2: Joan of Arc Alexander the Great was one of the greatest military leaders of all time. He was also the king of ancient Greece. He conquered most of western Asia. There is a legend that says that after conquering the whole ancient world, he cried because he had no more worlds to conquer. It is not always good to get everything you want. • Why?

Joan of Arc was a young French girl in the Middle Ages who became a heroine of France. France and England were at war, and England occupied much of France. Joan heard voices telling her to lead the French in battle. She was captured and killed. • Why do you think it was so unusual for a young

girl to lead others in fighting a war?

Week 3: Ferdinand and Isabella Week 4: Elizabeth I Ferninand and Isabella were the rulers of Spain in the late 1400s. They sponsored Christopher Columbus on his voyage to America. • Write a short story about someone else

discovering the land we call America.

Elizabeth I was the queen of England in the 1500s. • Research this queen, and list at least two

important events that occurred during her reign, which is called the Elizabethan Period.

Week 5: Ferdinand Magellan Week 6: Marco Polo

Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer of the 1500s. He led the first group of ships that sailed around the world. • Do some research and find out whether or not

Magellan actually finished the trip that he is famous for. Find out how far he traveled.

Marco Polo was an Italian explorer during the Middle Ages. He traveled to China and told the Europeans about his adventures in Asia. Marco Polo is also the name of a game. • Describe how this game is played. If you do not

know about this game, research Marco Polo and tell about what he found in China.

Week 7: Napoléon Bonaparte Week 8: Mother Teresa Napoléon was a French emperor and military leader. He conquered much of Europe but was eventually defeated at Waterloo. • When did he come to power? • When was he defeated?

Mother Teresa was a Catholic nun who lived in India. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for helping poor people. • What do you think is the most important thing

poor people need? Week 9: Adolf Hitler Week 10: Anne Frank Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi movement. He became dictator of Germany and believed that Germany should rule all of Europe. He invaded other countries, and started World War II in 1939. He hated the Jewish people and millions of Jews and other groups of people were murdered during this time. • Do you know of anything happening in the world

today that is not good? Write about it.

Anne Frank was a Dutch Jewish girl who spent two years hiding from the Nazis during World War II. Jewish people were killed by the Nazis. Anne was found and sent to a concentration camp, where she died. She wrote a diary while she was in hiding. Her father found it, and it was published for people to read. • Pretend you have a diary and write an entry for

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Week 1: Florence Nightingale Week 2: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Florence Nightingale was a nurse. She was born in 1820 in Florence, Italy and later moved to London, England. She changed health care by making hospitals cleaner and changed how nurses care for their patients. Because of her efforts, medicine has been improved forever. • Why is it important to be clean? • What could happen if you don’t have good

hygiene?

Mozart was born in 1756 in Austria. He was a musical genius. He began composing music at age 5! By the age of 17, he had written 30 symphonies and 2 operas. • Find out the name of an opera that Mozart

wrote. • Listen to one of Mozart’s symphonies if you can. • Find Austria on a map. What is its capital?

Week 3: Emiliano Zapata Week 4: Mohandas Gandhi

Emiliano Zapata was a Mexican with Native American ancestors. When wealthy farmers and miners began taking land from Native Americans he began to fight the government. His slogan was “Land and Liberty.” • What do you think “Land and Liberty” means?

Gandhi was an Indian leader who promoted peace. He peacefully opposed the rule of India by Great Britain. He helped India become independent in 1947. • Do you think it is better to solve conflicts with

peace or with violence? Why? Week 5: Ludwig van Beethoven Week 6: Nelson Mandela

Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany in 1770. He was a composer. Even though he went deaf, he continued to write music. Probably his most famous piece is his Symphony No. 9. Listen to it if you can. • What is the language that deaf people use? • Learn to spell your name in that language.

Nelson Mandela opposed the segregation between blacks and whites in South Africa. It was against the law for black people to vote until 1990. Mandela was sent to jail for opposing the segregation, but he was released in 1990 when the segregation ended. • When did he win the Nobel Peace Prize? • What was this segregation called?

Week 7: Marie Antoinette Week 8: Queen Elizabeth II Marie Antoinette was a French queen. She and her husband ruled France without consulting the Parliament. They unfairly forced the poor to pay high taxes. They were forced out of power during the French Revolution and were then killed. • Who was her husband? • When did the French Revolution begin?

Queen Elizabeth is the current Queen of Great Britain. She began her reign in 1952. During her rule many of the British colonies gained independence, and the British Empire changed into the British Commonwealth. • Name 5 countries that are part of the British

Commonwealth. Week 9: Peter Carl Fabergé Week 10: Princess Diana Fabergé was a Russian jeweler. He made a beautiful series of decorative Easter eggs. Inside each one was a surprise made of jewels. • Create your own decorative egg with a surprise.

Be creative!

Princess Diana was married to Prince Charles. She was the Princess of Wales. She did a lot of charity work. In 1997 she died in a car wreck. • Make a poster to encourage people not to speed. • Find Wales on a map.


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Wor ld H istory 3 On your paper or in your composition book, answer the following questions about the person each week: 1. From what country is this person? 2. When was he born? 3. What was her job? 4. Why is he important? Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2

Isaac Newton Johann Sebast ian Bach

Week 3 Week 4

Peter the Great Simón Bol ivar

Week 5 Week 6

Char les Babbage El izabeth Fry

Week 7 Week 8

Hans Chr ist ian Andersen Mary Seacole

Week 9 Week 10

Charles Darwin Benito Juarez


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Edmund Hi l lary Isabel la Bird

Week 3 Week 4

Gustave Eiffe l Jomo Kenyatta

Week 5 Week 6

Joseph Stal in Wi l l iam Shakespeare

Week 7 Week 8

Golda Meir Jawaharla l Nehru

Week 9 Week 10

Mao Tse-tung Isabel Perón


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Ramses II Hammurabi

Week 3 Week 4

Jul ius Caesar Chandragupta

Week 5 Week 6

Hippocrates King Cyrus II

Week 7 Week 8

Nebuchadnezzar II Muasaki Shikubu

Week 9 Week 10

Cleopatra Mansa Musa


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Week 1: Genghis Khan Week 2: Hung Wu Genghis Khan was a Mongol who became the leader of all the Mongol tribes in 1206. He conquered northern China, Afghanistan, Central Asia, and Persia (which is now called Iran). His empire stretched from the China Sea to the Black Sea. It was the largest and strongest empire in the world. • Find all the underlined places on a map.

The Mongols ruled China for nearly a century. Then Hung Wu, a Chinese man, became the emperor of China and founded the Ming Dynasty in 1368. During the Ming Dynasty, Chinese art, architecture, and literature flourished. It lasted until 1644. • How long is a century? • For how long did the Ming Dynasty last?

Week 3: Ibn Battuta Week 4: Nicolaus Copernicus Ibn Battuta was from Morocco. He set out on a religious journey to Mecca in 1325. He loved travelling so much that he became determined to travel the world. Over the next 25 years he visited India, the Maldive Islands, Sumatra, China, Spain, Sardinia, West Africa, and East Africa. He traveled about 74,560 miles! • Find the underlined places on a map. • Write a story about a journey you have made or

make up an adventure.

Nicolaus Copernicus was born in 1473 in Poland. He was a priest and an astronomer. People believed that the Earth was the center of the Universe, but Nicolaus figured out that the Earth revolves around the Sun. He was afraid to publish his astronomy book because it went against the church. He finally agreed on his deathbed and it became one of the most important astronomy books. • What are the names of the planets in our galaxy?

Week 5: Leonardo da Vinci Week 6: Pachacuti Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian artist, engineer, and writer. He was born in 1452. He lived during the Renaissance. He drew plans for a flying machine, wrote about mathematics, and invented scissors. • Find the name of two paintings by Leonardo da

Vinci and try to look at pictures of them.

Pachacuti was an Inca leader. During his leadership, the Inca Empire grew in South America. It now included Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and northern Chile. • Find each underlined country on a map. • What is the capital of each country?

Week 7: Montezuma II Week 8: Martin Luther Montezuma was the last emperor of the Aztec Empire in Mexico. • What Spanish conqueror ended the Empire? • When did the Empire end? Fun fact: This began 300 years of Spanish rule in Mexico.

Martin Luther was a religious reformer from Germany. He broke away from the Catholic Church and started the Protestant branch of Christianity in 1517. • What Protestant religion is named after him? • Find Germany on a map. What is the capital?

Week 9: Mohammed Turré Week 10: Akbar He was the Songhai king from 1492 until 1528. The Songhai empire was in northern Africa in what is now Mali. He built a canal system on the Niger River. • Find the underlined places on a map.

In 1545, at age 13, Akbar became a Mogol emperor and ruled India. He was a good leader who changed the tax system to help the farmers. • Find India on a map. What is the capital?


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Roya l ty 1 On your paper or in your composition book, answer the following questions about the king or queen each week: 1. What country did she rule? 2. When did he take the throne? 3. What king or queen came after her? When? 4. Find out one interesting fact about his reign. Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2

Wil l iam the Conqueror King Henry VIII

Week 3 Week 4

Queen El izabeth I Queen Victor ia

Week 5 Week 6

King Lou is XIV Cather ine the Great

Week 7 Week 8

Gustavus II Adolphus Freder ick the Great

Week 9 Week 10

Josef II of Austr ia King Hussein


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Roya l ty 2 On your paper or in your composition book, answer the following questions about the king or queen each week: 1. What country did she rule? 2. When did he take the throne? 3. What king or queen came after her? When? 4. Find out one interesting fact about his reign. Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2

Wil l iam & Mary King George III

Week 3 Week 4

Mary, Queen of Scots King Ludwig II

Week 5 Week 6

Char lemagne Sulayman I the

Magnif icent

Week 7 Week 8

Ferdinand & Isabel la King Lou is XVI & Marie

Anto inette

Week 9 Week 10

Canute the Great King Char les VII


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Exp l o r e r s 1

On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences. Then use a map to find the underlined places.

Week 1: Eric the Red and Lief Ericson Week 2: Christopher Columbus

Eric the Red and his son, Lief Ericson, were Norwegian Vikings. Eric the Red left Norway to live for a time in Iceland. He and his son also lived in Greenland for three winters. In about the year 1000, Lief discovered North America by sailing from Greenland to “a new land to the west,” which is said to be Labrador, Newfoundland or Nova Scotia.

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer. He sailed the Mediterranean when he was 14. He believed it was possible to reach India by sailing west. He set sail on August 3, 1492 and spotted land on October 12. He had landed in the Bahamas. He also explored Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. On a second voyage he reached Jamaica. On a third voyage he reached South America. On his fourth voyage, he explored the south shore of the Gulf of Mexico.

Week 3: William Clark Week 4: Elizabeth Cochrane (Nellie Bly) William Clark was the first great explorer to be born in the United States. He (with Merriwether Lewis) surveyed much of the United States, proving that it is a nation that stretched from ocean to ocean. He crossed the Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains. • Name the states through which the Continental

divide passes.

Elizabeth Cochrane (Nellie Bly) is credited with beating the fictional record of Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days (1873). She traveled by steamship, train, rickshaw, and sampan. • Draw a line around the world. • List the countries and oceans through which you

would travel.

Week 5: Amelia Earhart Week 6: Charles Lindbergh Amelia Earhart was the first woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane, the first woman to cross the Atlantic by herself, and the first pilot to make a solo flight over the Pacific (Honolulu to Oakland, California.). She wanted to be the first to fly around the world. She flew from Oakland to South America, east to Africa, and then on to the East Indies. She left New Guinea, but was lost at sea. • Trace her last voyage.

Charles Lindbergh was a famous pilot. He set the coast-to-coast record from California to New York. He flew across the Atlantic alone and landed near Paris. The president of the United States sent him on good-will tours of Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies.

Week 7: Jacques-Yves Cousteau Week 8: Alan Shepard Jacques-Yves Cousteau is the most highly-regarded marine explorers of all time. • Find out three interesting facts about his

journeys.

Alan Shepard was the first American to fly into outer space, and the fifth human being to set foot on the moon. • Find out three interesting facts about him.

Week 9: Neil Armstrong Week 10: Sally Ride Neil Armstrong was the first human being to step on to the fine gray dust of the moon. • Find out three interesting facts about him.

Sally Ride was the first American woman in space. • Find out three interesting facts about her.


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Exp lorers 2 On your paper or in your composition book, answer the following questions about the explorer each week: 1. From what country was he? 2. What did he explore? 3. When did he do his exploring? 4. Find out one interesting fact about the explorer. Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2

Vasco da Gama John Cabot

Week 3 Week 4

Ponce de Léon Vasco Balboa

Week 5 Week 6

Abel Tasman Cheng Ho

Week 7 Week 8

Sieur de La Sal le Hernando Cortez

Week 9 Week 10

Charles Wi lkes Roald Amundsen


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Nat i v e Amer i c a n T r i b e s


Week 1: Cherokee Week 2: Navajo

The Cherokee tribe had an advanced agricultural way of life already in the 1500s. They lived in the Southeast. In 1838 they were forced from their land to Oklahoma. It was a hard journey. • What is this journey called? • Name two famous Cherokee leaders.

The Navajo farmed, hunted, and gathered plants. The Navajo have the largest Native American reservation in the United States. • In what area of the US do they live? • In what states is their reservation? Fun fact: The Navajo have their own community college on their reservation.

Week 3: Sioux Week 4: Iroquois

The Sioux Confederacy is a group of seven Native American tribes. Black Elk was a Sioux medicine man. • Find the name of two more Sioux leaders. • In what area of early America did they live? Fun fact: In 1990 there were 100,000 Sioux. Most live in South Dakota.

The Iroquois Confederacy is a group of six Native American tribes. Each tribe had its own job in their society. • In what area of early America did they live? • What tribes are included in the Iroquois? Fun fact: In 1990, there were 49,038 Iroquois in the US. Many Iroquois live in Ontario.

Week 5: Seminole Week 6: Pueblo The Seminole tribe lived in the Eastern Woodlands. As more European settlers arrived, they fled to Florida. They fought US troops in Florida in the Seminole War and were forced to move to a different state. • To what state did they go? • What is the name of the Seminole leader in the

Seminole War?

The Pueblo are Native Americans who lived in adobe houses. They include many tribes who live in the Southwest. Pueblo men are famous for weaving clothing and Pueblo women are famous for their pottery. • Find a picture of an adobe house and draw it. Fun facts: The Pueblo culture is over 700 years old. It is the oldest culture north of Mexico.

Week 7: Cheyenne Week 8: Apache The Cheyenne were buffalo hunters who lived on the Plains. They were friendly with the early settlers until the settlers invaded their land. They fought Colonel Custer in a famous battle and won, but later they surrendered. Then they moved to Oklahoma and then to Montana. • What is the name of the famous battle? • Find the underlined places on a map.

The Navajo and the Apache were once joined together. Most Apache live in the Southwest. They fought the Spanish settlers in Mexico when the Spanish tried to move north from Mexico. They also fought the early US settlers as they moved west. • Name a famous Apache leader from the past. • Find an interesting fact about the Apache.

Week 9: Hopi Week 10: Largest Tribes The Hopi tribe is one of the Pueblo tribes. • Where do the Hopi live? • Find out one interesting fact about the Hopi.

Find out the five largest Native American tribes in the United States today. List them in order from largest to the smallest.


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Nat ive Amer icans i n H istory On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: John Ross Week 2: Sacagawea John Ross was a Cherokee chief born in Tennessee. One of his parents was from Scottland and one was Cherokee. • Find two interesting facts about John Ross. • Find the underlined places on a map.

Sacagawea was a member of the Shoshone tribe. She helped Indians and early US settlers communicate with each other. • Who did she guide on a famous journey? • When did she die?

Week 3: Black Elk Week 4: Chief Seattle

Black Elk was a Sioux medicine man. He was at the Battle of Wounded Knee. • When was he born? • Where did he live? Fun fact: Black Elk told his story to John Neihardt, who wrote the book, Black Elk Speaks.

Chief Seattle was a wise Suquamish leader. “Man did not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.” • What do you think this means? • In what state is the city that is named after

him? Week 5: Red Cloud Week 6: Crazy Horse

Red Cloud was a leader. He was born in 1822 and died in 1909. • Of what tribe was he a leader? • Find out two interesting facts about Red Cloud.

Crazy Horse was a well-respected Sioux chief. There is a Crazy Horse Memorial in the United States. • Where is the memorial? • What is the memorial?

Week 7: Pocahontas Week 8: Sitting Bull

Write a research paper about Pocahontas.

Sitting Bull was a leader and a medicine man. • Of what tribe was he a leader? • Find out two interesting facts about Sitting

Bull. Week 9: Charles Curtis Week 10: Sequoyah Charles Curtis was part Native American. He was a politician who fought for Native American rights. • He was a US Congressman. What state did he

represent? • He was the Vice President of the USA. Under

which President did he serve? Bonus: He was a Senator from 1907 to 1913 and from 1915 to 1929. How long was he a Senator?

He created a written Cherokee alphabet, called the “Talking Leaves.” He taught thousands of Cherokee how to read and write. There is a tree named after him. • What is the tree called? • Is it deciduous or evergreen? • Why is it important to know how to read?


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Afr ican Amer ican F i rsts Each week conduct research in order to find out what important thing the person did first and when. Write the name, what he or she did first, and when he or she did it in a complete sentence on your paper or in your composition book. Then illustrate your sentence. (Draw a picture of it.)

Week 1 Week 2

Thurgood Marsha l l A l thea G ibson

Week 3 Week 4

Arthur Ashe Char lotte E. Ray

Week 5 Week 6

John Mercer Langston Sh i r ley Ch i sho lm

Now conduct research in order to find out who fits the description. Also find out when it occurred. Write the name, what she or he did first, and when she or he did it in a complete sentence on your paper or in your composition book. Then illustrate your sentence. (Draw a picture of it.)

Week 7 Week 8

The f i rst Afr ican Amer ican to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard Un i vers i ty

The f i rst Afr ican Amer ican to w in a Grammy mus ic

award

Week 9 Week 10

The f i rst Afr ican Amer ican p i ctured on a postage stamp

The f i rst Afr ican Amer ican (and the f i rst fema le ) mayor of Minneapo l i s ,

Minnesota


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Afr ican Amer icans i n H istory 1 On your paper or in your composition book, answer the following questions each week: 1. When was this person born? If this person is dead, when did she die? 2. Where was she born? 3. Why is she important in American history? 4. Find out two interesting facts about this person. Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2

Martin Luther King, Jr. Rosa Parks

Week 3 Week 4

Harriet Tubman Sojourner Truth

Week 5 Week 6

Fredrick Douglass W. E. B. DuBois

Week 7 Week 8

Nat Turner Hank Aaron

Week 9 Week 10

Bi l l Cosby Duke El l ington


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Afr ican Amer icans i n H istory 2 On your paper or in your composition book, answer the following questions each week: 1. When was this person born? If this person is dead, when did he die? 2. Where was he born? 3. Why is he important in American history? 4. Find out two interesting facts about this person. Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2

Col in Powel l Jesse Jackson

Week 3 Week 4

Louis Armstrong Mahal ia Jackson

Week 5 Week 6

Booker T. Washington Dred Scott

Week 7 Week 8

Maya Angelou George Washington

Carver

Week 9 Week 10

Crispus Attucks Langston Hughes


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Fema le F i rsts Each week conduct research in order to find out what important thing the person did first and when. Write the name, what she did first, and when she did it in a complete sentence on your paper or in your composition book. Then illustrate your sentence. (Draw a picture of it.)

Week 1 Week 2

Made le ine A lbr ight Sa l l y R ide

Week 3 Week 4

Amel ia Earhart Gertrude Edder ly

Week 5 Week 6

Victor ia Woodha l l E l i zabeth B lackwe l l

Now conduct research in order to find out who fits the description. Also find out when it occurred. Write the name, what she did first, and when she did it in a complete sentence on your paper or in your composition book. Then illustrate your sentence. (Draw a picture of it.)

Week 7 Week 8

The f i rst woman to be appo inted just i ce of the

U.S. Supreme Court

The f i rst woman to row by herse lf across the At lant i c

Ocean

Week 9 Week 10

The f i rst woman to w in a Nobe l Pr ize for L i terature

The f i rst woman to become a U.S. Mar ine


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Women in H istory 1 On your paper or in your composition book, answer the following questions each week: 1. When was this person born? If this person is dead, when did she die? 2. Where was she born? 3. Why is she important in history? 4. Find out two interesting facts about this person. Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2

Beatr ix Potter Maria Montessor i

Week 3 Week 4

Mary Cassat Susan B. Anthony

Week 5 Week 6

Jin Qiu Mary Kings ley

Week 7 Week 8

Helen Kel ler Jane Goodal l

Week 9 Week 10

Eglant ine Jebb Bi l l ie Jean King


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Women in H istory 2 On your paper or in your composition book, answer the following questions each week: 1. When was this person born? If this person is dead, when did she die? 2. Where was she born? 3. Why is she important in history? 4. Find out two interesting facts about this person. Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2

Harriet Beecher Stowe Eleanor Roosevelt

Week 3 Week 4

Margaret Thatcher Lise Meitner

Week 5 Week 6

Margaret Mead Georgia O’Keefe

Week 7 Week 8

Béla Bartok Mary Seacole

Week 9 Week 10

Anna Pav lova Aung San Suu Kyi


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Week 1: Tiger Woods Week 2: Mary Lou Retton At the age of 21, Tiger Woods became the youngest winner of the US Masters tournament. He was also the first African American to win. • In what sport does Tiger compete? • Find out an interesting fact about Tiger.

Mary Lou Retton was a gymnast who competed in the Olympics at a young age. • In which Olympics did she compete? • How old was she? • What did she win?

Week 3: Megan Quann Week 4: Tara Lipinski Megan Quann competed at the Olympics at a very young age. • In which Olympics did she compete? • How old was she? • In what sport did she compete? • What did she win?

Tara Lipinski was the youngest U.S. and world figure skating champion and youngest individual athlete ever to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics! • In which Olympics did she compete? • How old was she?

Week 5: Michelle Kwan Week 6: Nadia Comaneci Michelle Kwan competed in figure skating at a very young age. • In what years did she win US championships? • In what years did she win world championships? • In which Olympics did she compete? • How old was she? • What did she win? • Bonus: She went to the Olympics in 1984 as an

alternate. How old was she?

Nadia Comaneci was a gymnast who was the first to score a perfect 10! Twice she competed in the Olympics, in 1976 and 1980. • How old was she at each Olympics? • What did she win? • From what country is she? Fun fact: Mary Lou Retton later scored perfect 10s!

Week 7: Ian Thorpe Week 8: Krisztina Egerszegi At 14, Ian Thorpe was the youngest male swimmer ever to have qualified for an Australian team. At the 1998 World Championships, at the age of 15, he became the youngest ever world champion. • In which Olympics did he compete? • How old was he? • What did he win?

She competed in 3 Olympics and won 6 medals. She was born in 1974 and she won her first gold medal at the Olympics in 1988. That made her the youngest to win a swimming gold at the Olympics. • How old was she when she won her first gold

medal? • From what country is she?

Week 9: Hilda Conkling Week 10: Phillis Wheatley In 1914, Hilda started writing poetry at the age of 4! She wrote poems everyday. At 10 years old, 100 of her poems were collected and published in Poems by a Little Girl. • Write your own poem.

Phillis Wheatley became a slave when she was six. She learned to read and she wrote her first poem when she was 13. She was the first African American woman to publish poetry in the US. • Find out another interesting fact about Phillis.


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Week 1: Amanda Dunbar Week 2: Shirley Temple At age 13 ½ she began painting and soon became recognized as one of the great child painters. She has a natural gift. “Her paintings are always about peace, innocence, and gentle times.” Amanda was born in Ontario in 1982. • In what country is Ontario? Find it on a map. • How old is Amanda now?

She was born in 1928. As soon as she could walk she started to dance. She acted in her first movie at age 4. Between 1935 and 1938, she was the most popular movie star in the United States. • How old was Shirley in 1935? • Ask your grandparents and parents what they

remember about Shirley Temple. Week 3: Zlata Filipovic Week 4: Gwendolyn Brooks Zlata kept a diary during wartime in Yugoslavia. It was published when she was 13. • What other young girl wrote a famous diary

during a war? • During what war was it written?

Gwendolyn Brooks wrote her first book of poetry when she was 13. She later became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize. • What was the name of her first book of poetry?

Week 5: Becky Schoeder Week 6: Gordon Korman She began inventing things when she was 14. Her invention to allow people to write in the dark is used in hospitals and by astronauts. • Come up with your own invention. Draw a picture

of it and describe what it does.

Gordon wrote his first book, This Can’t be Happening at MacDonald Hall, when he was in seventh grade. He wrote and published 5 more books by the time he finished high school! • Write your own short story.

Week 7: Charlotte Church Week 8: Dalai Lama At age 11, Charlotte Church became a world-known soprano singer. She is the youngest singer to have a number 1 classical album. She has performed for the pope, the Queen of England, and the US President! • She is from Wales. Where is Wales? • What language is spoken there? • Try to listen to one of her songs. Do you like it?

The Dalai Lama is a Buddhist leader from Tibet. At 2 years old he was sent to live with monks because he is believed to be the living Buddha. When he was only 16 years old, he took control of Tibet and sought a peaceful end to their fighting with China. • When did he win the Nobel Peace Prize? • He had to go into hiding. Find out where.

Week 9: Maria Gaetana Agnesi Week 10: Susan Boudinot She was born in the early 1800s in Milan. She had 20 siblings! By age 5, she spoke Italian and French. By 9, she also spoke Latin, Greek, and Hebrew fluently. Also at age 9 she wrote and gave a two-hour speech on how important it is for women to be allowed to go to school. She worked in mathematics. • In what country is Milan? • Find it on a map. • What sea does this country border?

She is remembered as the youngest protester in the American colonies. When she was 9, she accepted a cup of tea she was offered by a British politician, but then she tossed it out the window! The American colonists did not think the British government had a right to tax them, but they did anyway. In 1773, the British Parliament voted to keep the tea tax. Samuel Adams and Paul Revere also protested the tea tax. • What was the Boston Tea Party?


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“The Fa i l ure L i st ” It is important to set goals and try to reach them. There may be times that you are unhappy with yourself if your goals seem out of reach. The people on “The Failure List” met failure in one area, but attained greatness in another. Research these people to see what goals they reached. “A person may make mistakes, but isn’t a failure until he or she starts blaming someone else. We must believe in ourselves, and somewhere along the road of life, we must meet someone who sees greatness in us, expects it from us, and lets us know it.” Your teacher is such a person.

On your paper or in your composition book, use the following heading before writing. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.”

Person: Source: Source: Why is this person well-known? How is our world a better place because of this person?

Week 1: Albert Einstein Week 2: Isaac Newton Albert Einstein was 4 years old before he could speak.

Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school and was considered “unpromising.”

Week 3: Ludwig Von Beethoven Week 4: Thomas Alva Edison

Ludwig Von Beethoven’s music teacher once said of him, “As a composer, he is hopeless.”

Thomas Alva Edison was told by his teacher that he was too stupid to learn anything. It was suggested that he go into a field where he might succeed because of his pleasant personality.

Week 5: Babe Ruth Week 6: Michael Jordan Babe Ruth struck out 1,300 times, a major league record.

Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team.

Week 7: Bob Cousy Week 8: Walt Disney Boston Celtics Bob Cousy was cut from his high school basketball team. He is now in the Hall of Fame.

Walt Disney once worked for a newspaper. He was fired by his editor because he “lacked imagination and had no good ideas.”

Week 9: F.W. Woolworth Week 10: Winston Churchill F.W. Woolworth once had a job in a dry goods store when he was 21. His employer would not permit him to wait on customers because he “didn’t have enough sense to close a sale.”

Winston Churchill failed the sixth grade and had to repeat the grade because he did not complete the tests that were required for promotion.


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Olymp ic Ath letes 1: Summer Games On your paper or in your composition book, answer the following questions about the athlete each week: 1. In what Olympic Games did he or she compete? 2. What country did he or she represent? 3. In what sport did he or she compete? 4. What medals did he or she win? 5. In what events did he or she win medals? Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Week 2:

Carl Lewis Marion Jones

Week 3: Week 4:

Dawn Fraser Jenny Thompson

Week 5: Week 6:

Sawao Kato Steven Redgrave

Week 7: Week 8:

Mark Spitz Cathy Freeman

Week 9: Week 10:

Nickolay Andrianov Er ic Moussambani

(Eric didn’t win a medal, but his Olympic spirit shows that you don’t have to win a medal to be a winner!)


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Olymp ic Ath letes 2: Winter Games On your paper or in your composition book, answer the following questions about the athlete each week: 1. In what Olympic Games did he or she compete? 2. What country did he or she represent? 3. In what sport did he or she compete? 4. What medals did he or she win? 5. In what events did he or she win medals? Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Week 2:

Bonnie Bla ir Dorothy Hami l l

Week 3: Week 4:

Eric Heiden Kazuyoshi Funaki

Week 5: Week 6:

Bogdan Musio l Hermann Maier

Week 7: Week 8:

Vreni Schneider Sonja Henie

Week 9: Week 10:

Marja-Li isa Kirvesn iemi Elv is Stojko


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Who i s that person? 1 Each week, find out the following information about the person given: 1. When was she or he born? 2. When did she or he die? 3. In what country did she or he live? Find that country on a map. 4. On what continent is that country? 5. Why is she or he important? You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences on your paper or in your composition book.

Week 1 Week 2

Sacagaweah Lewis Carroll

Week 3 Week 4

Marie Curie Catherine the Great

Week 5 Week 6

Michelangelo William Penn

Week 7 Week 8

Frank Lloyd Wright Akbar

Week 9 Week 10

Joan of Arc Genghis Khan


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Who i s that person? 2 Each week, find out the following information about the person given: 1. When was she or he born? 2. When did she or he die? 3. In what country did she or he live? Find that country on a map. 4. On what continent is that country? 5. Why is she or he important? You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences on your paper or in your composition book.

Week 1 Week 2

Johannes Gutenberg Mohammed Ali Jinnah

Week 3 Week 4

Mary Wollstonecraft Queen Elizabeth I

Week 5 Week 6

Sergei Rachmaninoff Zhao Mengfu

Week 7 Week 8

Peter the Great Rembrandt

Week 9 Week 10

Hildegard of Bingen Sun Yat-Sen


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P laces Famous for The i r S ize On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences.

Week 1: Largest Country (By Size) Week 2: Largest City in the World (By People)

• What is the largest country in the world? • What is its capital? • What countries touch it?

• What city has the most people living in it? • How many people live there? • In what country is this city?

Week 3: Largest Country (By People) Week 4: Highest Mountain

• What country has the most people living in it?

• How many people live there? • What is its capital? • What countries touch it?

• What is the highest mountain in the world? • How tall is it? • In what country is it? • Of what mountain range is it a part?

Week 5: Longest Bridge Week 6: Tallest Building

• The longest bridge in the world • How long is it? • Where is it located? • When was it built? • What body of water does it cross?

• What is the tallest building in the world? • How tall is it? • Where is it located? • When was it built?

Week 7: Largest Island Week 8: Largest US City

• What is the largest island in the world? • In what body of water is it? • How big is it?

• What city in the United States has the most people living in it?

• How many people live there? • In what state is it located?

Week 9: Largest State Week 10: Smallest State

• What is the largest state in the United States?

• How large is it? • What is its capital?

• What is smallest state in the United States? • What is its capital • What states touch it?


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The Un i ted States of Amer ica 1 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences. Then use a map that your teacher gives you to find the underlined places.

Week 1: Hoover Dam Week 2: Washington Monument A dam is a barrier built to hold back water to avoid flooding. • Where is the Hoover Dam? • Why was it built? • When was it built? Fun fact: The Hoover Dam is one of the largest dams in the world. It is 726 feet high and 1244 feet long.

• Where is it? • Why was it built? • How tall is it? • Find a picture of it.

Week 3: Empire State Building Week 4: Great Lakes • Where is it? • Why is it famous? • How tall is it? • When was it built? • Find a picture of it.

• How many lakes are there? • What are their names? • What states touch the Great Lakes?

Week 5: Great Salt Lake Week 6: Everglades National Park

• Where is it? • What is unusual about it?

• Where are they? • Why are the Everglades unusual? • Name at least two animals that live there. Fun fact: More than 300 species of birds live in the Everglades!

Week 7: Alamo Week 8: Great Plains • Where is it? • Who fought there? • Why is it famous? • Find a picture of it.

• Which states are part of the Great Plains of North America?

• What is the weather in this area? • What products are from the Great Plains?

Week 9: Continental Divide Week 10: Death Valley • Which mountains form the Continental Divide? • What happens to rain that falls on the western

slopes? • What happens to rain that falls on the eastern

slopes?

• In what state is Death Valley located? • What is unusual about Death Valley?


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Week 1: Manhattan Week 2: Mississippi River

Manhattan is part of New York City. • What kind of landform is Manhattan? • What river is to the east? • What river is to the west?

• Through what states does the river pass? Write your answers in order from start to finish.

• Where is its mouth? • Who first explored it? • Bonus: What are its tributaries?

Week 3: The Grand Canyon Week 4: Mammoth Cave National Park

• Where is it? • How wide is it? • How deep is it? • What river flows through it? • Bonus: Of what type of rock is it made?

• In what state is Mammoth Cave? • How large is this cave system? • What is special about its size? Fun fact: Blind fish and colorless spiders like to live in Mammoth Cave because of the absolute darkness.

Week 5: Lincoln Memorial Week 6: Glacier Bay National Park • Where is it? • When was it built? • When was Lincoln president? • Find out a fact about Lincoln.

• In what state is Glacier Bay? • Find out at least two animals that live in this

park.

Week 7: The Vietnam Memorial Week 8: Redwood National Park

• Where is it? • When was it built? • Of what is it made? • When was the Vietnam War? • Find Vietnam on a map.

A redwood is a very large tree. • In what state is Redwood National Park? • How tall do they grow? • What is special about their size? • Are they deciduous or evergreen? Fun fact: Some redwoods are more than 2,000 years old!

Week 9: The White House Week 10: The Golden Gate Bridge • Who lives there now? • When was it built? • It was once destroyed in a fire. When? By

whom? • Draw a picture of the White House. • Bonus: Find out the address.

• Where is it? • Over what body of water does it pass? • How long is it? • When was it built? • Draw a picture of it.


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Week 1: The Rocky Mountains Week 2: Cape Cod • In what country, other than the United

States, does this mountain range lie? • In what states are the mountains? • What is the highest peak in the range in the

United States? How high is it?

• Of what state is Cape Cod apart? • Name three cities that lie on the cape. • Find out two interesting facts about Cape

Cod.

Week 3: The Appalachian Trail Week 4: Hawaii • Through what states does the Appalachian

Trail pass? • Through what mountains does it pass? • How long is it? • Make a map of the trail.

• What is the capital? • When did it join the United States? • Who was the first European to discover

Hawaii? • What islands are part of Hawaii? • Make a map of Hawaii.

Week 5: Liberty Bell Week 6: Walden Pond • Where is the Liberty Bell? • What does it symbolize? • Find out two interesting facts about the bell. • Draw a picture of it.

• In what state is Walden Pond? • What famous American author lived by

Walden Pond? • Name a book written by that author.

Week 7: The Gateway Arch Week 8: Acadia National Park • Where is the Gateway Arch (city and state)? • When was it built? • Draw a picture of it.

• In what state is this park? • What is the capital of that state? • Find out an interesting fact about this park.

Week 9: Kennedy Space Center Week 10: The Statue of Liberty

• In what state is it? • What is the capital of that state? • What happens at the Kennedy Space Center? • After whom is it named?

• Where is it? • How high is it? • Of what is it made? • What country gave it to the United States? • Why? • Draw a picture of it?


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Week 1: Wounded Knee Week 2: Space Needle • What happened at Wounded Knee? • When? • Who was involved?

• In what city and state is the space needle? • What is the capital of that state? • Draw a picture of it.

Week 3: Alaska Week 4: The Holocaust Museum • What is the capital of Alaska? • When was it admitted into the United

States? • What state was admitted before Alaska?

What state was admitted after? • Draw a map of Alaska.

• Where is this museum? • What was the Holocaust? • When did it occur?

Week 5: Harvard Week 6: The Mint • What is Harvard? • In what city and state is Harvard? • When did Harvard open?

• What is the Mint? • Where is it? • Of what department in the US government is

the Mint a part? Week 7: The Outer Banks Week 8: Central Park • In what state are the Outer Banks? • What is the capital of that state? • What kind of landform is it? • Draw a map of it.

• Where is Central Park? • Find out two interesting facts about Central

Park.

Week 9: NASA Headquarters Week 10: The Smithsonian Institution

• Where are the NASA Headquarters? • For what does NASA stand? • When was NASA started?

The Smithsonian includes 14 museums and other research institutions. • Where is the Smithsonian? • Name two museums that are part of the

Smithsonian. Fun fact: James Smithson, a rich British man, donated all his money to create the Smithsonian Institution to increase knowledge. He never even visited the United States!


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Week 1: Yosemite National Park Week 2: Arlington National Cemetery

• In what state(s) is it? • What are some of the animals that live in

the park? • Find out an interesting fact about the park.

• Where is it? • Who gets buried there? • Name a famous person that is buried there. • What river flows nearby? •

Week 3: Navajo Indian Reservation Week 4: Plymouth Rock The Navajo Indians migrated to the southwest more than 400 years ago. The Navajo tribe is one of the largest Native American tribes. • In what states is the Navajo Indian

Reservation?

• In what state is it? • What is the capital of that state? • Why is it important?

Week 5: Mount Rushmore Week 6: Brooklyn Bridge • In what state is it? • Whose faces are carved into Mount

Rushmore? Fun fact: The Crazy Horse memorial is also a mountain carving. It is a memorial to the Sioux leader, Crazy Horse. It is located 17 miles southwest of Mount Rushmore.

The Brooklyn Bridge is in New York City. • What two parts of the city does it connect? • Over what river is it? • When was it built?

Week 7: Salem Week 8: Serpent Mound State Memorial

• In what state is it? • What terrible thing happened there? • When?

• In what state is Serpent Mound? • What is it? • What Native American Indian tribe built it?

Week 9: Martha’s Vineyard Week 10: Seneca Falls, New York

• Where is it? • In what body of water is it? • What type of landform is it? • Find out two interesting facts about

Martha’s Vineyard.

Seneca Falls was the location of the first large meeting about women’s rights. • When did this meeting take place? • When were women given the right to vote in

the United States? Fun fact: New Zealand was the first country to grant women the right to vote.


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Canada 1 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences. Then use a map that your teacher gives you to find the underlined places.

Week 1: The Niagara Falls Week 2: Queen Charlotte Sound The Niagara Falls lie on the border between the United States and Canada. Niagara comes from an Iroquios word for “the Strait.” • In what state and province are the falls? • How high are the Canadian Horseshoe Falls? • How high are the American Falls? • Between what two Great Lakes are the falls?

• What province touches the Queen Charlotte Sound?

Week 3: Gulf of St. Lawrence Week 4: Yukon Territory

• What provinces touch the Gulf?

• What is the capital? • What provinces touch it? • Look at a map and name a lake in the

territory. Week 5: Northwest Territories Week 6: Wood Buffalo National Park • Name five Islands that are part of the

Northwest Territories. • Which Pole are the territories near?

• In what provinces is the park? • Name three animals that can be found there.

Week 7: Hudson Bay Week 8: Churchill Falls

• Which provinces and territories does the Bay touch?

• What European first explored the Hudson Bay?

Churchills Falls is Canada’s largest hydroelectric plant. A hydroelectric plant changes water into energy. Most of the power produced there is sold to Quebec. • In what province is it? • When was the construction of Churchill Falls

completed? Fun fact: Church Hill Falls took 9 years to build and it cost 764 million United States dollars to build.

Week 9: Rocky Mountains Week 10: Mount Logan Part of the Rocky Mountain Range is in Canada and part is in the United States. • In which provinces and in which territory in

Canada are the Rocky Mountains? • In which states in the United States are the

Rocky Mountains?

• Where in Canada is this mountain located? • How tall is it? • What is special about its height?


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Canada 2 P r o v i n c e s

On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the week, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences. Then use a map that your teacher gives you to find the underlined places.

Week 1: British Columbia Week 2: Ontario


province. • What states in the US does it touch?


province. • What states in the US does it touch? • What Great Lakes touch it?

Week 3: Alberta Week 4: Saskatchewan • What is the capital? • What provinces touch it? • Look at a map and name a lake in the province. • What state in the US does it touch? Fun fact: Alberta raises the most cattle of any province in Canada.

• What is the capital? • What provinces touch it? • Look at a map and name a lake in the province. • What states in the US does it touch? Fun fact: Saskatchewan exports wheat to 60 countries around the world.

Week 5: Quebec Week 6: Newfoundland • What is the capital? • What provinces touch it? • Look at a map and name a lake in the



province.

Week 7: Manitoba Week 8: New Brunswick • What is the capital? • What provinces touch it? • Look at a map and name a lake in the



province. • What state in the US does it touch?

Week 9: Prince Edward Island Week 10: Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island joined Canada in 1873. • In what body of water is it? • What is the capital? • Look at a map and name a lake in the

province.


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Canada 3 Cities

On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences. Then use a map that your teacher gives you to find the underlined places.

Week 1: Calgary Week 2: Ottawa

• In what province is Calgary? • What is the population of Calgary? • Which Olympics were held in Calgary?

• In what province is Ottawa? • What is the population of Ottawa? • Name one interesting fact about Ottawa.

Week 3: Toronto Week 4: Montréal

• In what province is Toronto? • What is the population of Toronto? • Name one interesting fact about Toronto.

• In what province is Montréal? • What is the population of Montréal? • Which Olympics were held in Montréal?

Week 5: Edmonton Week 6: Vancouver

• In what province is Edmonton? • What is the population of Edmonton? • Name one interesting fact about Edmonton.

• In what province is Vancouver? • What is the population of Vancouver? • Name one interesting fact about Vancouver.

Week 7: Hamilton Week 8: Winnipeg

• In what province is Hamilton? • What is the population of Hamilton? • Name one interesting fact about Hamilton.

• In what province is Winnipeg? • What is the population of Winnipeg? • Name one interesting fact about Winnipeg.

Week 9: London Week 10: Halifax

• In what province is London? • What is the population of London? • Name one interesting fact about London.

• In what province is Halifax? • What is the population of Halifax? • Name one interesting fact about Halifax.


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Mexico On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences. Then use a map that your teacher gives you to find the underlined places.

Week 1: Tropic of Cancer Week 2: Yucatán Peninsula

• What is it? • Find where it passes through Mexico on a map. • Through what countries in Africa does it pass?

• What two bodies of water surround the peninsula?

• What two countries border the peninsula? • Name a city on the Yucatán Peninsula.

Week 3: Baja California Week 4: Chichén Itzá • What does “baja” mean in Spanish? • What body of water is to the east of Baja

California? • What body of water is to the west? • What type of landform is Baja California?

• In what Mexican state is Chichén Itzá? • What great civilization built this city? • When was this city founded? • Find out three interesting facts about this

civilization.

Week 5: Citlaltélpetl, or Orizaba Week 6: Rio Bravo del Norte

• What is it? • How high is it? • What is special about its height?

• What does “rio” mean in Spanish? • What US state borders the Rio del Norte? • Name two tributaries of the Rio Bravo del

Norte.

Week 7: Sierra Madre Oriental Week 8: Bay of Campeche • This is a mountain range. What is its highest

peak? • How high is it? • What mountain range does this one meet in the

south?

• What rivers flow into the Bay of Campeche? Fun fact: The correct name for Mexico is actually the United Mexican States. It is divided into 31 states.

Week 9: The Laguna District Week 10: Tenochtitlán Before 1936, this agriculturally rich land was divided into only three wealthy estates. Then in 1936, President Lázaro Cárdenas distributed this land to Mexican farmers. It was successfully farmed until 1952. • What natural disaster happened in the region

in 1952? • What does “laguna” mean in Spanish?

• For what great civilization was this the capital?

• Find out three facts about this civilization. • When was this city founded? In 1521, after long battles, a Spaniard conquered this city and established a new city in its place. • Who was the Spaniard? • What city is there now?


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Centra l Amer ica On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences. Then use a map that your teacher gives you to find the underlined places.

Week 1: El Salvador Week 2: Panama Canal • What is the capital? • What countries border it? • What body of water borders it? • Name a river that runs through El Salvador. Fun fact: El Salvador is the smallest of the Central American countries. There are two volcanic ranges in the country!

• What two bodies of water does the canal connect?

• When was the canal built? • What countries border Panama?

Week 3: Tajumulco Week 4: Caribbean Sea • What is it? • How high is it? • What is special about its height in Central

America? • In what country is it? • What is the capital of that country?

• Name five islands in the Caribbean Sea. • What countries in Central America border the

sea?

Week 5: Mosquito Coast Week 6: Belize • In what two countries is the Mosquito Coast? • What are the capitals of those two countries? • What body of water does it border? Fun fact: The Mosquito Coast is named after the native people in the area, the Miskito or Mosquito.

• What is the capital of Belize? • What countries border Belize? • What body of water borders Belize? • What language is most common?

Week 7: Tikal Week 8: Cuba • In what country is this city? • What great civilization built this city? • Find out three facts about this city. • Find a picture of the ruins in Tikal.

• What is the capital of Cuba? • Who is the leader of Cuba? • What is the population of Cuba?

Week 9: Costa Rica Week 10: Caribbean Islands • What is the capital? • What two bodies of water border the country? • What two countries border Costa Rica? • What language is most common?

• There are many islands in the Caribbean Sea. Try to name as many of them as you can.

• Find them on a map.


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South Amer ica On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences. Then use a map that your teacher gives you to find the underlined places.

Week 1: Amazon River Week 2: Andes Mountains • Through what countries does it pass? • Where is its source? • Where is its mouth? • How long is it?

• Through what countries are the Andes Mountains?

• What is the highest peak? How high is it? • What is special about the length of this

mountain range? Week 3: Angel Falls Week 4: The Equator

• In what country are the Angel Falls? • What is the capital of that country? • How high are the falls? • What is special about their height?

The Equator is an imaginary line that divides the world in half. It is the same distance from the North Pole as the South Pole. • What lies to the north of the Equator? • What lies to the south of the Equator? • Through what countries in South America

does it pass? Week 5: The Galápagos Islands Week 6: Tropic of Capricorn • Of what country re the islands a part? • In what body of water are the islands? • What are some of the unique animals that

live on the islands? • What famous scientist did research on the

islands?

• What is it? • Through what countries in South America

does it pass? • Through what countries on Africa does it

pass?

Week 7: Falkland Islands Week 8: Amazon rainforest • The size of the Falkland Islands is about

4700 square miles. What US state is about the same size?

• What is the official language of the Falkland Islands?

• What country controls the Falkland Islands?

Find out five facts about the Amazon rainforest.

Week 9: Guácharo Cave Week 10: Trinidad and Tobago • In what country is this cave? • What is a guácharo? • How long is this cave?

• What is the capital of Trinidad and Tobago? • In what body of water is it? • What South American country is closest to

it?


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As ia: The Far East On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences. Then use a map that your teacher gives you to find the underlined places.

Week 1: The Great Wall Week 2: The South China Sea

• Where is it? • What is it? • Who built it? • Why? • Find a picture of it.

The South China Sea is the largest sea in the world. • Find it on a map. • Describe where it is. • How large is it?

Week 3: Vietnam Week 4: Mongolia

• What countries touch Vietnam? • What is its capital? • What sea touches Vietnam?

• What is the capital? • What is the population? • What countries border Mongolia? • What mountain range is on Mongolia’s

southwest border with China?

Week 5: Mount Everest Week 6: Hong Kong • In what country is it located? • How high is it? • What is special about its height? • In what mountain range is it included?

• Who now controls Hong Kong? • Who controlled Hong Kong before them? • When did control switch hands?

Week 7: Siberia Week 8: Yangtze River

• Where is it located? • What is the coldest temperature it has

ever been in Siberia?

• Through what countries does it flow? • Where is its delta? • How long is it?

Week 9: Sri Lanka Week 10: Mount Fuji • What is the capital of Sri Lanka? • What kind of landform is it? • In what body of water is it? • What did Sri Lanka used to be called?

Mount Fuji is a sacred mountain for the Buddhist and Shinto religions. • In what country is it located? • How high is it?


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As ia: The Midd le East On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences. Then use a map that your teacher gives you to find the underlined places.

Week 1: The Wailing Wall Week 2: Red Sea

• In what country and city is the Wailing Wall? • For what religion is the Wailing Wall a special

place? • What is done at the Wailing Wall? Fun fact: The Wailing Wall is also called the Western Wall. It is believed to be the remains of King Herod’s temple. That temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD.

• What countries border the Red Sea? • To what body of water does the Red Sea lead

in the southeast? • Is the Red Sea a fresh or salty body of water? • Name an island or an archipelago in the Red

Sea. Fun facts: Water in the Red Sea measures around 85°F in the summer! It has some dangerous coral reefs. The Red Sea was an important trading route, before the water route around Africa was discovered in around 1498.

Week 3: Istanbul Week 4: Taj Mahal • In what country is this city? • What is the capital of that country? The city of Istanbul has had two other names throughout history. • Before 330 AD, what was it called? • Between 330 and 1930, what was it called?

Taj Mahal is a mausoleum, or grand tomb. • Where is it? • When was it finished? • Who built it? • Why did he build it? Bonus: With what religion is it associated?

Week 5: Persian Gulf Week 6: Dead Sea • What countries border the Persian Gulf? • To what gulf does the Persian Gulf outlet? • When was the Persian Gulf War?

• Where is it located? • What is unusual about it?

Week 7: Israel Week 8: Tigres and Euphrates Rivers • What is the capital of Israel? • When was it established as a country? • What borders Israel?

• Where are these rivers located? • What is important about these rivers?

Week 9: Mecca Week 10: Rub al-Khali Desert Mecca is a very holy city for the Islamic religion. • In what country is it? • What important religious figure was born

there? • What famous religious building is in the middle

of Mecca?

• In what four countries is this desert? • What is the capital of each of these

countries? • What important resource can be found in this

desert? (Hint: Cars depend on this resource.)


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Austra l i a On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences. Then use a map that your teacher gives you to find the underlined places.

Week 1: Australia Week 2: The Great Barrier Reef • What is the capital? • What is the most commonly spoken language? • What are the native people called? • Because Australia is fairly isolated, it has many

unusual native plants and animals. Name three animals that are native to Australia.

The Great Barrier Reef is on the northeastern coast of Australia. • What is it? • What is special about its size? Bonus: About how many species of animals live there?

Week 3: The Sydney Opera House Week 4: Tasmania The Opera House of Sydney is very unique architecturally. • What architect designed it? • In what year did building begin? • What year did it open? • Find a picture of it.

• What ocean is to the east? • What ocean is to the west? • How large is it? Fun fact: Most of the world’s wool comes from the sheep of Australia.

Week 5: New South Wales Week 6: The Outback • What is the largest city in New South Wales? • What body of water borders it? • What Australian state lies to the south of New

South Wales?

• In what part of Australia is it? • What is it? • What animals are found there? • Bonus: What is the climate like?

Week 7: Western Australia Week 8: The Sydney Harbour Bridge • Name a desert in Western Australia. • Name a lake in Western Australia. • How large is Western Australia? Fun fact: Rabbits were brought by Europeans to Australia in 1788. The rabbit population grew so much and it became a menace to sheep farming. A fence was built from the north coast all the way to the south coast to keep the rabbits from getting to Western Australia. It is 1,000 miles long!

The Sydney Harbour Bridge became world famous during the 2000 Summer Olympics, when it was lit up with the five Olympic rings. • When was the bridge built? • Who designed it?

Week 9: Great Dividing Range Week 10: Christmas Island

• What is its highest peak? • How high is it? • What body of water is to the northeast? • What body of water is to the southeast?

• In what ocean is Christmas Island? • What is the population? • Who controls the island? • Whose empire was it part of between 1888 and

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The South Pac i f i c On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences. Then use a map that your teacher gives you to find the underlined places.

Week 1: Polynesia Week 2: New Zealand Polynesia means “many islands,” and that’s just what Polynesia is. It includes: Hawiian Islands Somoan Island Cook Islands Tahiti Easter Island Tuvalu Pitcairn Island • Find all these islands on a map.

• What is the capital? • What is the name of the largest city? • What is the name of the indigenous people? • What are the two official languages? Fun fact: New Zealand is sometimes called the “shaky country” because about 400 earthquakes rock it every year!

Week 3: White Island Week 4: North Island White Island is a highly active volcano. • In what country is it? • In what body of water is it? • How high is it? • When did it last erupt?

• In what country is it? • What is the name of the largest lake on the

island? • Bonus: What is the name of the longest

river on the island? Week 5: South Island Week 6: Milford Track

• In what country is it? • What is the name of the main mountain

range on the island?

• What is the Milford Track? • In what country is it? • How long is it? • Name 2 things you would see along the way.

Week 7: Papua New Guinea Week 8: Ring of Fire • What is the capital? • On what island is it? • What language is most common? Fun fact: Papua New Guinea has been part of the British Commonwealth since 1975.

• What is it? • Where is it? • What is special about this line?

Week 9: Indonesia Week 10: Fiji • Where is it? • What is the capital? • What kind of landform is it? • Bonus: How many islands are included in

Indonesia?

• What kind of landform is it? • In what ocean is it found? • What is its capital? • In what hemisphere is it?


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Afr ica On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences. Then use a map that your teacher gives you to find the underlined places.

Week 1: Timbuktu Week 2: Suez Canal There is a common saying, “from here to Timbuktu.” It means “far away.” Timbuktu is actually a city near the Sahara Desert and the Niger River. • In what country is it? • How many people live there?

• Where is it? • What two bodies of water does it connect? Fun fact: Egypt and Israel fought a war in 1967. In the peace treaty, Israel gave the Suez Canal back to Egypt.

Week 3: Pyramids Week 4: The Great Sphinx • Where are they? • Why were they built? • When were they built? • Who built them? • Find a picture of them.

• Where is it? • What is it? • Why was it built? • Draw a picture of it.

Week 5: Madagascar Week 6: Straits of Magellan • What is it? • Where is it? • Why is it unusual? Fun fact: More than half of the world’s vanilla is grown in Madagascar. Without vanilla, there would be no vanilla ice cream!

• What two bodies of water are connected by the Straits of Magellan?

Magellan was a Portuguese explorer. • What did he do that Christopher Columbus

couldn’t do? Week 7: King Tutankhamun’s Tomb Week 8: Sahara Desert

• Where is it? • Why was it built? • When was it discovered? Fun fact: King Tut’s tomb was untouched by robbers, so all the treasures buried with King Tut were still there. Now they are in a museum in Cairo.

The Sahara Desert includes most of Western Sahara, Mauritania, Algeria, Niger, Libya, and Egypt; and parts of Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal, Mali, Chad, and Sudan. • What is special about the size of the Sahara

Desert? Fun fact: The world's highest recorded temperature was in 1922 in the Sahara Desert. In the shade it was 136°F (58°C)!

Week 9: Lake Victoria Week 10: Nile River

Lake Victoria is the second largest freshwater lake in the world. • What countries does it touch?

• Through what countries does it pass? • How long is it? • What is special about its length? • Where is its delta?


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Europe 1 On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions for the weeks below. You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences. Then use a map that your teacher gives you to find the underlined places.

Week 1: The Parthenon Week 2: The Pantheon • In what city and country is the

Parthenon? • What group of people built it? • For what was it used? • Find a picture of it.

• In what city and country is the Pantheon?

• What group of people built it? When? • For what was it used? • Find a picture of it.

Week 3: Notre Dame Week 4: The Vatican • In what city and country is Notre Dame? • What is it? • What style of architecture is it? • When was it built? • Find a picture of Notre Dame.

• In what city is the Vatican? • When was it built? • Who lives there? • For what religion is he a leader? • Find a picture of it.

Week 5: The Kremlin Week 6: Buckingham Palace • In what city and country is the Kremlin? • When was it built? • For what was it used? • Find a picture of it.

• In what city and country is the palace? • Who lives there? • When was it built? • Find a picture of it.

Week 7: The Berlin Wall Week 8: The Eiffel Tower • In what country was the wall? • When was it built? • Why was it built? • What did it divide? • Find a picture of it. • When was it torn down?

• In what city and country is the tower? • Why was it built? • Of what is it made? • Find a picture of it.

Week 9: Lapland Week 10: Chernobyl • To what pole is Lapland close? • In what three countries does Lapland lie? • What animal are you likely to find in

Lapland?

• Where is Chernobyl? • What is it? • What happened there?


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Week 1: Scandanavia Week 2: The Rhine River • What countries are included in

Scandanavia? • What is the capital of each of these

countries?

• Through what countries does it flow? • Where is its delta? • Where is its source? • How long is it?

Week 3: The Sistine Chapel Week 4: The Alps

• Where is it? • What artist pained its ceiling? • When? • During what period in art history was it?

• In what countries are the Alps? • What is the capital of each of these

countries? • What is the highest peak in the Alps? How

high is it? Week 5: The Baltic Sea Week 6: The Leaning Tower of Pisa

• What countries border the Baltic Sea? • What is the capital of each of these

countries? • How deep is it?

• Where is the tower? • When was it built? • Why does it lean? • Draw a picture of it. Fun fact: The London Bridge was built in the same year.

Week 7: Count Dracula’s Castle Week 8: Arc de Triumph • In what country is the castle? • What is the capital of the country? • Who was Count Dracula? • When was it built? • Find a picture of it.

• What is it? • Where is it? • When was it built? • Draw a picture of it.

Week 9: Versailles Week 10: 10 Downing Street • What is Versailles? • Where is it located? • What king had it built? • Find a picture of it.

• Who lives at this address? • In what city and country is it? • Find a picture of it.


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Week 1: The Louvre Week 2: Iceland • What is it? • In what city and country is it? • Name a famous piece of art that is displayed

there.

• What type of landform is it? • What is the capital? • In what body of water is it found? • What language is spoken there?

Week 3: Mediterranean Sea Week 4: Liechtenstein • What countries border the Mediterranean

Sea? • What is the capital of each of those

countries?

• What is the size of Liechtenstein? • What river borders Liechtenstein in the

west? • What two countries border Liechtenstein? • What is the capital?

Week 5: Baltic Sea Week 6: Czech Republic

• What countries border the Baltic Sea? • What is the capital of each of these

countries?

• What is the capital of the Czech Republic? The Czech Republic used to be part of Czechoslovakia. • What other country was part of

Czechoslovakia? • When did Czechoslovakia break up into two

countries? Week 7: Neuschwanstein Week 8: Big Ben • What is Neuschwanstein? • In what country is it? • What king built it? When? • Draw or paint a picture of it. Fun fact: The king who had it built never saw it completed. He died during its construction. He had two other extravagant castles built: Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee!

• What is the Big Ben? • In what city and country is it? • When was it constructed? • Draw a picture of it.

Week 9: Anne Frank’s House Week 10: Auschwitz

• Who is Anne Frank? • In what city and country is her house, which

is now a museum?

• In what country is Auschwitz? • What is it? • During what terrible event in history was it

used?


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Where in the wor ld? 1 Each week, find out the following information about the place given: 1. In what country is the place located? Find the country on a map. 2. On what continent is the place located? 3. Is the place natural or made by humans? 4. Describe the place in two or three sentences. 5. Why is the place important? You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences on your paper or in your composition book.

Week 1 Week 2

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon St Mark’s Cathedral

Week 3 Week 4

Yellowstone National Park The Tower of London

Week 5 Week 6

The Pyramids The Outback

Week 7 Week 8

The Nile The Great Wall

Week 9 Week 10

The World Trade Center The Mediterranean Sea


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Where in the wor ld? 2 Each week, find out the following information about the place given: 1. In what country is the place located? Find the country on a map. 2. On what continent is the place located? 3. Is the place natural or made by humans? 4. Describe the place in two or three sentences. 5. Why is the place important? You may use books, the computer, or information you get from a knowledgeable source after “interviewing.” Write your answers in complete sentences on your paper or in your composition book.

Week 1 Week 2

Mount St. Helen Amazon rainforest

Week 3 Week 4

Westminster Abbey Key West

Week 5 Week 6

The Eiffel Tower The Lincoln Memorial

Week 7 Week 8

The Great Barrier Reef The Black Forest

Week 9 Week 10

The Taj Mahal The Yucatán Peninsula


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Geography 1 In order to understand what is going on in the news, it is important to be familiar with the people and places that are often mentioned. Answer the questions about the people and places of our world in complete sentences.

Week 1 Week 2

• What is the highest mountain in North America?

• What is the highest mountain in Asia? • What is the highest mountain in the

world?

• What is the longest river in North America?

• What is the longest river in Africa? • What is the longest river in South

America? • What is the longest river in the

world? Week 3 Week 4

• How many countries are in North America?

• Name them.

• Where is the largest rain forest located?

• Why are the rain forests of the world important?

Week 5 Week 6

• What is the population of the world? • What is the population of the United

States of America? • What is the population of your city?

• Write the names of the continents in order from the largest to the smallest.

• Name all the countries that touch Brazil.

Week 7 Week 8 • Name the major planets of the solar

system in order of the distance from the sun.

• What is our galaxy called?

• Name the oceans in order from the largest to the smallest.

• Name the Great Lakes in order from the smallest to the largest.

Week 9 Week 10 Name the capital of: Argentina New Zealand India France Mexico Norway

• List as many islands in the South Pacific that you can.


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Week 1: Week 2: • What is the highest mountain in

Canada? • What is the highest mountain in

Switzerland? • What is the highest mountain in the

United States?

• What is the longest river in the United States?

• What is the longest river in India? • What is the longest river in Europe?

Week 3: Week 4:

• How many countries are in Africa? • Name them.

• How many countries are in South America?

• Name them. Week 5: Week 6:

Name the capital of: South Africa Madagascar Israel South Korea

• What is the population of Mexico? • What is the population of Canada? • What is the population of Greenland?

Indonesia Australia Week 7: Week 8: Name the capital of: Sudan Cuba Portugal Brazil Iraq Philippines

• Name the three largest desserts of the world.

• Where are they located?

Week 9: Week 10: Name the capital of: Colombia Egypt China Thailand Canada Greece

• What is the highest waterfall in the world?

• Where is it? • How high is it?


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Week 1 Week 2

• Who is the President of the United States?

• Who is the Vice President?

• Who is the Secretary of State in the

United States? • Who is the Attorney General of the

United States?

Week 3 Week 4

• Who is the mayor of your city? • Who is the governor of your state?

• Who are the United States senators

from your state? Bonus: Who are your state’s representatives in Washington, D.C.?

Week 5 Week 6

• Who is the Prime Minister of Canada? • Who is the President of Mexico?

• Who is the leader of Brazil? • What is his/her title?

Week 7 Week 8

• Who is the leader of Cuba? • What is his/her title?

• Who is the Prime Minister of

England? • Where does s/he live?

Week 9 Week 10 List all the countries that touch the following countries:

List all the countries that touch the following countries:

Kazakhstan Vietnam Pakistan Paraguay Ukraine Peru Kenya Syria Switzerland Zambia Guatemala Egypt


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Week 1 Week 2

• Where is the Great Barrier Reef? • What is it?

• What is Scandinavia? • What countries are included in

Scandinavia?

Week 3 Week 4

• Who is the Secretary General of the United Nations?

• For how long does s/he serve?

• Who is the Prime Minister of New

Zealand? • Who is the Prime Minister of Japan?

Week 5 Week 6

• Who is the leader of South Africa? • What is his/her title?

• Who is the leader of Germany? • What is his/her title?

Week 7 Week 8 Name the capital of:

Name the capital of:

Costa Rica Iceland Vietnam Finland Haiti Czech Republic Sierra Leone Iran Ireland Somalia Scotland Nepal Week 9 Week 10 List all the countries that touch the following countries:

List all the countries that touch the following countries:

Cambodia Nigeria Laos Italy Afghanistan Austria Botswana Sweden Morocco Venezuela Mongolia Bolivia


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Maps 1

The Lines on a Map When you look at a map, you see many different lines. These lines are not actually there in real life. They are used for navigation. They help people to know where they are and to get where they need to go. Each week, do the following on your paper or in your composition book: 1. Find the line (or lines) on a map. 2. Define in your own words what the line is. 3. Draw a sketch of the line, showing where it appears on a map. 4. In about three sentences, describe where the line appears on the map.

Week 1 Week 2

The Equator

The Internat iona l Date L ine

Week 3 Week 4

Mer id ians

Para l le ls

Week 5 Week 6

The Antarct ic C irc le

The Arct ic C irc le

Week 7 Week 8

The Trop ic of Cancer

The Trop ic of Capr icorn

Week 9 Week 10

Mason and Dixon ’s L ine

The Cont inenta l D iv ide


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Maps 2 Each week you are given a country. About the given country, answer the following questions in complete sentences: 1. On what continent is the given country? 2. What countries touch the given country? 3. What is the major language of this country? Then draw the best map you can for the country. On your map, be sure to at least include the following: 1. the capital city 2. five other cities 3. one river 4. any major bodies of water that are in the country or touch it 5. the highest mountain

Week 1 Week 2

France

Saud i Arab ia

Week 3 Week 4

Egypt

Mexico

Week 5 Week 6

Canada

Ind ia

Week 7 Week 8

Peru

New Zealand

Week 9 Week 10

Ch ina

Spa in


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Maps 3 Each week you are given a country. About the given country, answer the following questions in complete sentences: 1. On what continent is the given country? 2. What countries touch the given country? 3. What is the major language of this country? 4. What is the currency of this country? (What is its money called?) Then draw the best map you can for the country. On your map, be sure to at least include the following: 1. the capital city and five other cities 2. one river 3. any major bodies of water that are in the country or touch it 4. the highest mountain

Week 1 Week 2

Germany

Bang ladesh

Week 3 Week 4

Venezue la

Cuba

Week 5 Week 6

Argent ina

South Afr ica

Week 7 Week 8

Costa R ica

Austra l ia

Week 9 Week 10

Turkey

Ita ly


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Maps 4 Each week you are given a country. About the given country, answer the following questions in complete sentences: 1. On what continent is the given country? 2. What countries touch the given country? 3. What is the major language of this country? 4. What does this country import most? 5. What does this country export most? Then draw the best map you can for the country. On your map, be sure to at least include the following: 1. the capital city and five other cities 2. one river and any major bodies of water that are in the country or touch it 3. the highest mountain

Week 1 Week 2

Eng land

Kenya

Week 3 Week 4

Braz i l

Syr ia

Week 5 Week 6

Japan

Gu inea

Week 7 Week 8

Guatemala

Alger ia

Week 9 Week 10

Ch i le

Ph i l i pp ines


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Patr i ot i sm: C i t i zensh ip In order for an immigrant to become a citizen of the United States of America, a person must have an understanding of our country. Each week, answer the questions in complete sentences as a part of appreciating our country.

Week 1 Week 2

• What are the colors of our flag? • How many stars are there on the flag? • What color are the stars on our flag? • Draw a picture of our flag.

• What do the stars on our flag represent?

• What do the stripes on our flag represent?

• How many states are there in the United States?

Week 3 Week 4 • From whom did the United States get

their independence on the 4th of July? • Who was the first president of the

United States? • Who is the President of the United

States today?

• Who is the Vice President of the United States?

• Who is the governor of your state? • What is the capital of your state?

Week 5 Week 6 • How many terms can a president of the

United States serve? • Who was Martin Luther King, Jr. • What is the capital of the United States

of America?

• Who was the president during the Civil War?

• Who fought in the Civil War? • What did the Emancipation Proclamation

do? Week 7 Week 8

• Write the names of the thirteen original colonies.

• Who helped the pilgrims in America?

• What are the two major political parties in the United States today?

• To which party does our president belong?

Week 9 Week 10 Name the capital of: Texas New York California Virginia Michigan Illinois

Write a paragraph about what it means to you to be a citizen of the United States of America.


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Patr iot i sm: Important Documents There are many important documents and speeches in the history of the United States. For each document, answer the following questions in complete sentences: 1. When was it written? (If it is a speech, then when was it given?) 2. Who were the main people involved in writing it? (If it is a speech, then who delivered it?) 3. Why is it important?

Week 1 Week 2

The Mayf lower Compact

The Dec larat ion of

Independence

Week 3 Week 4

The Const itut ion of the Un ited States of Amer ica

The B i l l of R ights of the

Const i tut ion

Week 5 Week 6

The Star-Spang led Banner

The Monroe Doctr ine

Week 7 Week 8

L inco ln ’ s Gettysburg Address

The Emanc ipat ion

Proc lamat ion

Week 9 Week 10

The P ledge of Al leg iance to the F lag

The “I Have a Dream

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Patr iot i sm: Amendments On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions given each week.

Week 1 Week 2

There are many important amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America. • What is an amendment? • What is the purpose of an amendment?

Article 5 of the Constitution allows it to be amended. In order for an amendment to be ratified (accepted), a certain procedure has to be followed. • How is an amendment ratified?

Week 3 Week 4 • How many amendments are there to the

Constitution? • When was the most recent amendment

ratified?

• What is the Bill of Rights? • How many amendments does it include?

Week 5 Week 6

Senators were not always elected by the people. The Constitution originally stated that senators would be chosen by state legislatures. The Constitution was amended to allow the people to elect their senators. • Which amendment changed how senators are

chosen? • When was it ratified?

Things often change and the Constitution has to keep up with changes, so occasionally amendments are amended! The twelfth amendment was ratified but then later amended by another amendment. • When was the twelfth amendment ratified? • What amendment amended the twelfth

amendment? • When was this later amendment ratified? • How many years after the original

amendment was ratified, was it amended by the later amendment?

Week 7 Week 8 What rights are guaranteed by these amendments?

Fourth Amendment, Eighth Amendment Week 9 What rights are guaranteed by these amendments? When were they ratified?

Tenth Amendment, Thirteenth Amendment Week 10

Because the Constitution is a legal document, it is written in legal terms. Even though the Constitution can sometimes be hard to understand, it is important for people to understand it. That way they know what their rights are. • In your own words, write what rights are

guaranteed by the First Amendment. Then write a paragraph about what life without the First Amendment would be like.

What rights are guaranteed by these amendments? When were they ratified?

Nineteenth Amendment, Twenty-sixth Amendment


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Imagine you can take a trip for a day to somewhere in your city or state. This trip will be both fun and educational. Each week, follow the directions. You will be guided through some research to help you plan your day trip.

Week 1: About what are you most interested in learning? For example: • Art • History • Animals • The environment • Geography • A famous person

from your area

• Dinosaurs • Helping others • Government • Literature • The Native

Americans in your area

Use your imagination and be creative!

Week 2: Now think of a day trip related to your interests. For example: • If you are interested in learning about

animals, go to the zoo or aquarium and learn about a certain family of animals.

• If you are interested in learning about government, take a tour of your state capital building or the courthouse. Use your imagination and be creative!

Week 3: Find a book or some brochures about your destination. You could get information from a tourist center in your city, from the library, or from the internet.

Week 4: Who will accompany you on your day trip? Decide who you want to take with you and why. Do they enjoy the same thing?

Week 5: Read through your information. Answer the following:

Week 6: Read through your information. Answer the following:

• Where is your destination located? • How will you get to your destination?

• When does the destination open and close? • What can you do there?

Week 7: How far will you travel? If you are staying in your city, you will need a map of your city. Figure out how many miles you will have to travel to get from your house to your destination.

or

If you are leaving your city, you will need a map of your state. Figure out how many miles you will have to travel to get from your city to your activity.

Week 8: How much will your day trip cost? • How much will the activity cost? • How much will transportation cost? • What is the total cost for the activity

and transportation together? • What is the total cost for all three of

you? Week 9: Write a short story. Pretend you just returned from your day trip. Write a story about your adventures. Make sure to write at least one paragraph about what you learned.


Week 10: Make a “photo album” of your day trip. Create pictures of your adventures and assemble them into a booklet. This is the “photo album” from your day trip!



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Imagine you just won enough money to send you and two guests on a trip of a lifetime that is both fun and educational. Each week, follow the directions. You will be guided through some research to help you plan your ideal vacation.

Week 1: About what are you most interested in learning? For example: • Zoology • Oceanography • The environment • A certain period or person in history

• How to make this world a better place • Art, music, or architecture from a

certain period in history • Life in a certain country

Use your imagination and be creative! Week 2: Now think of a dream vacation related to your interests. For example: • If you love zoology, you could go on a safari in Kenya. • If you love art, you could take an art museum tour through Europe. • If you are curious about a certain person in history, you could visit all the important

places in that person’s life. • If you are interested in making this world a better place, you could go to an area in

need and help out. • If you are interested in oceanography, you could plan a scuba diving trip in the Great

Barrier Reef. Use your imagination and be creative!

Week 3: Collect brochures or other types of information about your destination(s). You could get information from a travel agency, such as AAA. You could look at research books and travel magazines, like National Geographic World. You could borrow travel guides from the library, such as Lonely Planet. The internet might also be really handy. Week 4: Decide who will accompany you on your trip of a lifetime and read your information. Choose two people to go with you on your journey. Then learn as much as you can about your destination(s). At least answer the following questions: • What language is spoken there? • What sites can you visit? • What is the weather like?

• What kind of food is eaten? • Could you go on any guided tours? • Where could you stay?

Week 5: Create your itinerary. An itinerary is a detailed plan of a journey. • Make a list of where you will go on your trip of a lifetime. Include all the cities and

countries that will be part of your journey. • Make a list of the things you will do, such as visiting museums, volunteer work, etc.

When will you do these things? Include dates in your list.


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Imagine you just won enough money to send you and two guests on a trip of a lifetime that is both fun and educational. Each week, follow the directions. You will be guided through some research to help you plan your ideal vacation.

Week 6: Make a list of what you will need to pack. Before leaving for a trip, it is very important to make a list of what you will need to bring. For example, do you need a foreign language phrase book? What will the weather be like? Etc. Look back at your research information to help you. Think carefully about what you will be doing on your trip. Make a list of what you think you will need on your journey. Week 7: How much will your trip cost? Now you have to decide how you will get where you are going, where you will stay, and how much it will cost. • Figure out what would be the best method of transportation to use to get where you

are going, such as plane, train, boat, or car. • Have an adult help you find out how much it will cost to get to your destination by

whatever method of transportation you decide to use. • Remember you are traveling with two other people. How much will transportation cost

for all three of you? • Look in your brochures or guide books to find out where you could stay. Find out how

much one night in the hotel or youth hostel costs. • Now do a math problem to figure out how much it will cost to stay there for the whole

trip. • Do another math problem to figure how much the transportation and hotel(s) will cost

all together. Week 8: Write a short story. Pretend you just returned home from your vacation. Write a short story about your adventures. Make sure to write at least one paragraph about what you learned on your trip. This is a first draft.

Use your imagination and be creative! Week 9: Rewrite your story. Check your story for spelling and grammatical errors. Correct any mistakes. Rewrite (in your most beautiful handwriting) or type your story about your adventures. Week 10: Create a “photo album” to go along with your story. Create pictures of your adventures and assemble them into a booklet. This is the “photo album” from your journey!



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Cu l tures of the Wor ld Before Europeans explored the world during the Age of Exploration, countries around the world already had people living in them. They are called the native, or indigenous, population. The new settlers joined them and often there were fights over land. Each week a world culture is named. Your job is to: 1. find where they live, and 2. write two interesting facts about them. Write your answers in complete sentences.

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Navajo Iroquo is

Week 3 Week 4

Maori Samburu

Week 5 Week 6

Aborig ine Maya

Week 7 Week 8

Inuit Zulu

Week 9 Week 10

Watusis Yanomamo


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Co l on i e s of the Wor ld Europeans explored the world during the Age of Exploration and settled in countries all around the world. These European countries were trying to build large empires and spread their influence around the world, often for the purpose of trading. This time in history is called the Age of Imperialism.

Often these newly settled countries were turned into colonies. A colony is a settlement that has to follow the rules of the mother country. For example, from 1608 until 1763, Québec was a French colony, so they had to follow French rules.

On your paper or in your composition book, follow the directions given each week. Write your answers in complete sentences. Find all underlined places on a map.

Week 1 Week 2 • The 13 original colonies in America were under

whose control? • When did they gain independence and form their

own country?

• What country colonized Mozambique? • When was it first colonized? • When did the country win independence? • How long was it a colony?

Week 3 Week 4

The Cape of Good Hope was originally a Dutch colony. The colony was taken over by another European country. • Who took over the Cape Colony? • In what country is the Cape of Good Hope?

For 130 years the Falkland Islands passed between England, France, and Spain ownership. • When did the Falkland Islands finally become a

British colony? • What South American country fought Great

Britain for the Islands? Week 5 Week 6 Haiti was originally a Spanish colony, but then in 1697 a different country claimed it as its own. • Who claimed to own Haiti in 1697? • For how long did they control Haiti?

• Which Spanish ruler conquered Mexico? • When? • How long did Spain rule Mexico as New Spain?

Week 7 Week 8 Like the original colonies in the United States, some colonies eventually gained their independence. • India was once controlled by another country.

Find out who controlled India. • When did India gain its independence?

Like the original colonies in the United States, some colonies eventually gained their independence. • Mozambique was once controlled by another

country. Find out who controlled Mozambique. • When did Mozambique gain its independence?

Week 9 Week 10

Like the original colonies in the United States, some colonies eventually gained their independence. • Australia used to be a penal colony. What is a

penal colony? • To whom did the penal colony belong? • When did it stop being a penal colony?

Most places that were once British colonies have gained their independence. Many of these independent countries joined together and formed the British Commonwealth of Nations. There are more than 50 members. • List 20 of members of the Commonwealth and

locate them on a map.


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Our Wor ld

Terr i tor ies of the Wor ld 1 Europeans explored the world during the Age of Exploration and settled in countries all around the world. These European countries were trying to build large empires and spread their influence around the world, often for the purpose of trading. This time in history is called the Age of Imperialism. Often these newly settled countries were turned into colonies. A colony is a settlement that has to follow the rules of the mother country. For example, before the American Revolution, the American colonies were British colonies. Therefore, they had to pay taxes to the British and follow rules made by the British. Also Québec was a French colony from 1608 until 1763. Often the colonies gained independence from the mother country, like the American colonies did. Later these newly independent countries began exploring and claiming territories of their own. The Midway Islands in the Pacific Ocean, for example, is a territory of the United States. Many countries around the world have territories outside their country. Each week a territory is given. Answer the following in your composition book or on your paper in complete sentences: 1. Locate the territory on a map. 2. Of what continent is it a part? 3. In what ocean or sea is it located? 4. Who controls the territory?

Week 1 Week 2

Puer to R i c o Cook I s l a nds

Week 3 Week 4

Easter I s l a nd Amer i can Samoa

Week 5 Week 6

Ga l ápagos I s l a nds Chr i s tmas I s l a nd

Week 7 Week 8

Bermuda I s l a nds Guade l o upe

Week 9 Week 10

French Gu i ana Sva l bard


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Terr i tor ies of the Wor ld 2 Europeans explored the world during the Age of Exploration and settled in countries all around the world. These European countries were trying to build large empires and spread their influence around the world, often for the purpose of trading. This time in history is called the Age of Imperialism. Often these newly settled countries were turned into colonies. A colony is a settlement that has to follow the rules of the mother country. For example, before the American Revolution, the American colonies were British colonies. Therefore, they had to pay taxes to the British and follow rules made by the British. Also Québec was a French colony from 1608 until 1763. Often the colonies gained independence from the mother country, like the American colonies did. Later these newly independent countries began exploring and claiming territories of their own. The Midway Islands in the Pacific Ocean, for example, is a territory of the United States. Many countries around the world have territories outside their country. Each week a territory is given. Answer the following in your composition book or on your paper in complete sentences: 1. Locate the territory on a map. 2. Of what continent is it a part? 3. In what ocean or sea is it located? 4. Who controls the territory?

Week 1 Week 2 Guam Green l and

Week 3 Week 4 G ibra l t a r Nether l ands Ant i l l e s

Week 5 Week 6 V i rg i n I s l a nds Mart i n i q ue

Week 7 Week 8 Bermuda Is l a nds Aruba

Week 9 Week 10

Cayman Is l a nds

Some places in the world are called disputed territories because countries cannot agree on who controls them. Western Sahara is a disputed territory. Antarctica is also a disputed territory. • Name one more disputed territory. • Locate it on a map. • Locate the underlined places on a map.


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