{"id":1090,"date":"2008-08-27T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/1090"},"modified":"2008-08-27T13:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T18:26:00","slug":"hows-your-content-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2008\/08\/27\/hows-your-content-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"How&#8217;s Your Content Knowledge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>My students arrive in 75 minutes. On the first day of class we begin by with a scavenger hunt as both a means of introduction and a way for me to see how much they &#8220;know&#8221; about the curriculum they will one day teach. Here are the rules and the questions.<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>Begin by reading the questions and writing in any answers you already know.<\/li>\n<li>Walk around the room and find someone to confirm your answers and\/or provide answers you do not know. Have that person initial next to the question.<\/li>\n<li>Remember that one person may not supply more than two answers on your paper.<\/li>\n<li>Sit down as soon as your hunt is completed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div>FIND SOMEONE WHO CAN . . .<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Define and give you an example of opportunity cost.<\/li>\n<li>Name the &quot;Father of the Constitution.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>Name the most highly valued barter item in Colonial Virginia.<\/li>\n<li>Tell you who Christopher Newport was.<\/li>\n<li>Name two important figures in the Harlem Renaissance.<\/li>\n<li>Name the five regions of Virginia.<\/li>\n<li>Tell you the difference between latitude and longitude.<\/li>\n<li>Name two things George Washington Carver was famous for.<\/li>\n<li>Tell you about Werewocomoco.<\/li>\n<li>Name the five oceans of the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Draw and name the parts of a light wave.<\/li>\n<li>Name the components of soil.<\/li>\n<li>Describe the difference between the waxing and waning phases of the moon.<\/li>\n<li>Tell you the required components and products of photosynthesis.<\/li>\n<li>Name the eight planets in order from the sun.<\/li>\n<li>Tell you what a dichotomous key is.<\/li>\n<li>Explain why it is hotter in the summer than in the winter.<\/li>\n<li>Name four nonrenewable energy resources.<\/li>\n<li>Tell you the difference between weathering and erosion.<\/li>\n<li>Name the five kingdoms of classification.<\/li>\n<li>Name the six types of simple machines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>How did you do? My students will be moaning and groaning, cheering every so often, and then wondering how they&#8217;ll ever learn\/remember it all. We&#8217;ll spend the semester thinking about these topics and more, while we explore the best ways to teach them. You can be that books (and I don&#8217;t mean textbooks) will play some small role here. \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My students arrive in 75 minutes. On the first day of class we begin by with a scavenger hunt as both a means of introduction and a way for me to see how much they &#8220;know&#8221; about the curriculum they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2008\/08\/27\/hows-your-content-knowledge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,31,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-social-studies","category-teaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}