Questions 12/14-12/17

1. 1 5/8 - 6/8 = ?

2. Where were the Dutch and French Colonies located?

3. Who are the Quakers?

Questions 12/7-12/11

1. The brain is the __________ __________ of the Nervous System.

2. Who was the head of the Roanoke Island Colony?

3. Why is organization important in writing?

Questions 11/30-12/4

1. List as many meanings for the word span as you can.

2. What are the four chambers of the heart?

3. When all systems in your body are are in balance, it is called ________________.

Questions 11/23-11/25

1. What are two jobs of the muscular system?

2. What are your Thanksgiving traditions?

3. How do you convert a decimal to a percent?

Questions 11/16-11/20

1. Convert the fraction 1/8 to a percent.

2. How many bones are in an adult human body?

3. Name the layers of bone.

Questions 11/9-11/13

1. What did you learn about the heart from Dr. Berg?

2. How can you find equivalent fractions?

3. How many sentences are you asked to write in a paragraph?

Questions 11/2-11/6

1. What did you learn about bullying this week?

2. As the denominator of a fraction increases, what happens to the value of the fraction?

3. What are two purposes of an apostrophe?

Questions 10/26-10/30

1. What have you discovered in your owl pellet?

2. What kind of "voice" do you use when talking to a friend? What about when you talk to the principal?

3. A second is what fraction of a minute?

Questions 10/19-10/23

1. Write (notation) 253 divided by 5 three different ways?
2. How did the Vikings come to North America?
3. What were the Seven Cities of Gold, and where did the Spanish hope to find them?

Questions 10/5-10/9

1. Name 2 simple machines.
2. What are reporter's questions?
3. Tell your family 3 things you learned about Columbus during the scavenger hunt.

Questions 9/28-10/2

1. Describe one way to find the sum of the angles in a quadrangle without using a protractor.

2. The sum of the angles in a triangle is _____.

3. What is a major feature of the Aztec culture?

Questions 9/21-9/25

1. When did corn cultivation begin?

2. What is agriculture?

3. What can you do with a compass besides draw a circle?

Questions 9/14-9/18

1. What questions do adverbs answer?

2. What is the relationship between circles and angles?

3. What are three conjunction pairs you might use when writing?

Questions 9/8-9/11

1. Who is your hero?

2. When multipying numbers with a decimal, what do you do with the decimal?

3. What did you learn from Messing with Mixtures?

Questions 8/31

1. What are the relation signs in math?
2. What are the 3 states of matter?
3. What is needed to change a state of matter?
4. What is an example of a physical change in matter?
5. What is an example of a chemical change in matter?

Questions 8/24

Who are you sending your journal to on the Journey Journey?

What is an array?

What are you reading in your reading class?

Questions 8/17

1. What are the square numbers up to 100?
2. What is a natural resource? Name two.
3. What does culture mean?

Questions 5/11-5/15

1. Of the 125 students in sixth grade, 2 out of 5 are in the band. How many students are members of the band?

2. What number times 2 is equal to 1?

3. What math problems did you experience or encounter due to the Math Curse?

4. What happened on your perfect day?

5. What is your vision for the future?

Questions 5/4-5/8

1. In the late 1800s, what was it like for immigrants coming to the United States?

2. Why did workers form unions in the late 1800s?

3. How do you find the volume of a cylinder?

4. About how many times does your heart beat in 15 seconds?

5. What is bird flu?

Questions 4/27-5/1

1. What is the greatest common factor of 18 and 30?

2. What is the least common multiple of 18 and 30?

3. What type of plane flew the farthest in our "Come Fly with Me" lab? Why did this happen?

4. What events led to the Confederate surrender at Appomatox?

5. How did African Americans adjust after the Civil War?

Questions 4/20-4/24

1. What are some reasons why pioneers moved West?

2. What did the United States gain from the Mexican War?

3. What is an independent variable?

4. What is validity?

5. How do you find the circumference of a circle?

Questions week of 4/13-4/17

1. What is an abolitionist?

2. Describe the Underground Railroad.

3. What was the Industrial Revolution?

4. 4 coins = 2 blocks
1 coin + 3 blocks = 14 clips
One coin weighs as much as ___ clips.
One block weighs as much as ___ clips.

5. What type of fingerprints do you have?

Questions 4/6-4/10

1. What events led to the War of 1812?

2. Why were Lewis and Clark's accomplishments important?

3. What does impressment mean?

4. What is volume?

5. What is capacity?

Questions 3/30-4/3

1. Who is the "Father of the Constitution?"

2. How does the Constitution divide power between the states and the federal government?

3. What formula do you use to find the area of a rectangle?

4. What is the formula for the area of a triangle?

5. Who will you represent for your oral presentation?

Questions 3/23-3/27

1. What book are you reading for your self-selection (Literature Group)?

2. Numbers , as well as words, have opposites. What are they called for numbers? What are they called for words?

3. Every point on a coordinate plane can be named by an _____ _____ _____.

4. What was a cause of Shays' Rebellion?

5. How can people settle their differences (hint: Constitutional Convention)?

Questions 3/9-3/13

1. What are your Business Costs at BizTown?

2. What "catchy slogan" did you use for your advertisement?

3. What have you written checks for to prepare for BizTown?

4. With the way we have learned, what is common about adding, subtracting, and dividing fractions?

5. 3/8 is 3/4 of what number?

Questions 3/2-3/6

1. What is your job at BizTown?

2. What did you write to the editor?

3. What is your persuasive paper about?

4. What is happening in the book you are reading for your Literature Circle?

5. Solve 4/5 * 5/11

Questions 2/23-2/25

1. Solve: 3 1/3 - 1 2/3 =

2. What pattern do you notice when solving the following...
1/2 + 1/3 = 1/4 + 1/5 = 1/5 + 1/6 =

3. What are important steps to remember when you have an interview?

4. What planet are you researching and what are some interesting facts you have found?

5. What connections have you made with the book you are reading for your Literature Circle?

Questions 2/16-2/20

1. How long ago was our solar system formed?

2. How was Earth formed?

3. What kind of words link steps in process writing?

4. What does it mean to infer?

5. What is one strategy to use when comparing fractions?

Question 2/9-2/13

1. Solve 2 + (-8)

2. Make this true 34 = 3 * 6 ^2 / 3 -2

3. I cried when I hit my toe on the desk.
What is the cause? What is the effect?

4. Of the four career types, which one do you identify with?

5. How fast might a tornado travel?

Question 2/2-2/6

1. Why is it important to have a savings account?

2. What mnemonic device helps you remember Order of Operations?

3. What is personification?

4. What is a hyberbole?

5. Name a person who helped change racial inequality.

Questions 1/26-1/30

1. Explain how to isolate a number in an equation.

2. What is a community?

3. What is the model of economic activity in an economy?

4. What is a Haiku? Share your Haiku.

5. What is the difference between cruise and crews?

Questions 1/20-1/23

1. What does the 2009 Presidential Inauguration mean for you?

2. Who was the youngest President-elect at the time of his inauguration?

3. When was the first televised inauguration?

4. What is a limerick?

5. How many billion years ago was the Earth formed?

QUESTIONS 1/12-1/16

1. What was the result of the French and Indian War?
2. What is an Acrostic Poem?
3. What is a Concrete Poem?
4. When a liquid freezes, what is removed?
5. Solve 2(x+1)-x+5=2x