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- PIGSKIN GEOGRAPHY® Answer Key September 7, 2008 - Week 1 1. Atlanta, Boston(N.E.), Nashville(TN), Indianapolis State Geography Standards =
- National Rice Month
- State Geography Standards
- SPECIAL SCIENCE/GEOGRAPHY PROJECT
- Patriot Act
- Cincinnati, Toledo, Elyria and Youngstown
- PIGSKIN GEOGRAPHY® Answer Key September 28, 2008 - Week 4 English teachers will want to know about National Punctuation Day
- NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
PIGSKIN GEOGRAPHY® Addition-Subtraction, Graphing Instructions Dear Teacher: Students will enjoy the Addition and Subtraction Exercise in connection with PIGSKIN GEOGRAPHY. There are usually 15 games played on Sunday in the National Football League, and the scores of these games will be reported in the sport section of your Monday's newspaper. However, be reminded that there are some open dates for all teams, and only 13 games will be played on certain Sundays. This exercise sheet is completed by simply taking the scores of the first two competing teams and adding to determine the total number of points scored in the game; then subtracting the same scores to determine the margin of victory. Repeat the process with the second set of scores, etc. until all 15 games are calculated. This is a practical and meaningful math assignment for 1st through 6th graders. It should NOT be a timed exercise for grades 1-3, but can be for grades 4 and above. The ability of your class should determine the time allotted for completion, but it is generally recommended that 6th graders be given four(4) minutes to complete the drill, 5th graders five(5) minutes, and 4th graders six(6) minutes. Reduce the time allowed to complete the drill by 10-15 seconds when the weekend schedule is reduced to 13 games on Sunday. Now graph the results of the addition and subtraction assignment. This is a project probably best suited for 6th graders and above, but you must be the one to determine how appropriate this may be for your class. Your students are being timed as they work with the NFL results on Monday, and they raise their hand to signal they are finished. Their time is quickly called to them when they raise their hand, and they note this exact time on their exercise sheet. For example, you call 3:19. This means they completed the exercise in 3-minutes and 19-seconds. Round-off the time to the nearest three seconds(3:18), and graph the results as a bar graph for that particular week of the football season. The bars should be colored in RED in the weeks the exercise is not completed with 100% accuracy, and colored in GREEN when it is done with 100% accuracy. When there are less than 14 scheduled games, add 10 seconds to a student's time for each game not played. This will make the graph present a more realistic picture of consistent improvement from week to week, instead of so much weekly fluctuation when there are open dates. What you hope to see as the weeks pass it that more and more of the bars are becoming green, and there is a stair step pattern downward to the right as computational speed increases. The results might more appropriately be graphed with a line graph, but experience has shown that students are more enthused about making bar graphs than line graphs. Enjoy! 14
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17 PIGSKIN GEOGRAPHY® Answer Key September 7, 2008 - Week #1 1. Atlanta, Boston(N.E.), Nashville(TN), Indianapolis State Geography Standards = SGS 2. San Francisco, Oakland SGS 3. California. September is “Go Wild During California Wild Rice Month” fuels the discussion of should California be growing rice and wild rice due to the extreme water shortage in Southern California. www.cawildrice.com September is also National Rice Month www.usarice.com 4. Pennsylvania, New York * 5. San Francisco, Green Bay, Indianapolis 6. NY Jets Appreciate the reading comprehension skills that are required to answer the questions. Make sure you get the correct response when students are asked for the “will be visited” or “will visit” team(s) as in questions #2, #5 and #6. Don’t blame me if it drives you nuts. You have been warned.
8. Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Ontario 9. Lake Michigan, Lake Huron ** 10. Gulf of Mexico *** Any livelihoods of HOUSTON CHRONICLE students affected? SGS 11. Pittsburgh The Ohio River Sternwheel Festival is going on in Marietta, OH. American history teachers, relive the history of our developing nation. Sternwheelers reflect what time period in American history? www.ohioriversternwheelfestival.org Any of you CINCINNATI ENQUIRER students going to Covington for Oktoberfest? How many ENQUIRER students have been to Krazy City? 12. New Orleans 13. Oklahoma City, OK 14. WA, ID MT, ND, MN, WI, MI, NY. **** SGS Do you want to mention the province of Ontario, Canada? Buffalo Wings were founded at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, NY.
16. New York, NY. First Labor Day parade was in NYC in 1882. Oregon made it a legal holiday in 1887, and President Cleveland made it a national holiday in 1894. ***** 17. Hope this question will be a practical writing assignment for you. The SAT test now requires more essay type writing. Your first chance to see the compositional skills of your students. Destroying a myth related to Labor Day and New York City. The New York post office opened to the public on Labor Day, Sept. 7, 1914. Common belief has it that the inscription on the front of the building is the motto of the postal service: Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night
official motto, but the legend remains. * Be advised, in case some student tries to “wise you up”, that the NY Giants and NY Jets play in the Meadowlands in New Jersey. However, they will be from NYC as long as they have New York in their name. As a point of reference for measuring direction or distance in the future, The location of New York City will be considered as the tip of Manhattan. ** Bonus points! Perhaps for anyone bringing in a picture or article of the Labor Day walk across the Mackinac Bridge connecting the two peninsulas of Michigan. An event that only continued 18 PIGSKIN GEOGRAPHY® Answer Key September 7, 2008 - Week #1 happens once a year. Objective: Develop awareness of Great Lakes. Teach concepts of peninsula and strait. Strait will be discussed in later lessons. www.mackinacbridge.org. Click on Labor Day walk. Look at the back of the Michigan quarter. *** Research and discuss the “Dead Zone” occurring in the Gulf of Mexico. This annual problem is exacerbated this year by the floods in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri bringing down sewerage, farm fertilizer, etc. causing the oxygen in an area the size of Massachusetts to be depleted. SGS **** OBJECTIVE: To teach state identification. Be flexible on grading these questions as cartographers will tell you all maps are not the same. If a student can prove that by the map he/she is using that the corner of a state is or is not touched, allow the answer. Some students will realize that airplanes fly the “Great Circle Route” above the Earth’s surface, but for these questions they will be considered to fly in a straight line, or the “Crow Flight” route. IDEA! Challenge your students to be able to point out and name each of the 50 states on an outline map of the U.S. in one(1) minute by the 12th week of the NFL season. This will be a great public relations activity for you. Parents will love what their child is learning and accomplishing. To facilitate grading, demand the states be listed in the order they are traversed en route to a city. This is good mental discipline for the students. The state of departure and the state of arrival will always be the first and last, respectively. State Geography Standards ***** Questions identified as Beyond the 10, 20, 30, or 40, are more difficult, and indicate the students will have to consult some reference source. This source may be some type of reference book, or mom, dad, grandma or grandpa. Strive to get the family involved. As in kicking field goals, a 40-yarder is more difficult than a 10-yarder, so more extra credit should be given for this extra effort. Some of you may choose to ignore these questions. If you want, have a few students or the class keeping the PASSES ATTEMPTED/PASSES COMPLETED GRAPH. THIS GRAPH WILL ALLOW YOUR STUDENTS TO GRAPH THE PASSING SUCCESS OF THEIR FAVORITE QUARTERBACK FOR THE 17 WEEKS OF THE NFL SEASON. The QB graph is on page 21. Objective for math: Figuring percentages by converting common fractions to their decimal equivalent. Passers need Receivers. Most career receptions in the NFL: Jerry Rice 1,549; Cris Carter 1,101; Tim Brown 1,094; Marvin Harrison 1,042. Anyone approaching the 1,000 catch mark this season? SPECIAL SCIENCE/GEOGRAPHY PROJECT Does your newspaper provide time of sunrise and sunset on the weather page? Start an HOURS OF DAYLIGHT graph on Monday, the 8th to plot the descending hours of daylight leading to the autumnal equinox. www.almanac.com/rise/rise.html. Fall arrives at 11:44 a.m. EDT on September 22nd. Do this if studying the changing seasons, rotation and revolution of the Earth, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn and Equator are part of your curriculum. Figure the hours of daylight even if you don’t graph them. SGS American history: Mention that Sept. 2nd is V-J Day. Games will be played on Sunday, Dec. 7th and we will take a moment to reflect on Pearl Harbor during that week. NEXT WEEK: Golden color of the leaves of an aspen tree - Intermediate directions Identifying states of the United States – Rocky & Appalachian Mountains Mouth or delta of river – Rivers of the U.S. – State capitals – Ft. McHenry
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20 PIGSKIN GEOGRAPHY® Answer Key September 14, 2008 - Week #2 Check out this website and decide when you want to tell your students to play the games. www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_intermed_State15s_500.html Check out this website and decide when you want to tell your students to play the games. www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq 1. Texas, Ohio, Missouri, Florida 2. Detroit, Cleveland, Tampa Bay, NY Jets. VINDICATOR students should watch the Steelers go over. 3. Phoenix(AZ), Denver 4. Door Peninsula * 5. Cincinnati. You ENQUIRER students don’t have to answer this one. SGS 6. St. Louis, Minneapolis 7. Kansas City. You STAR students don’t have to answer this one. 8. Mouth or delta. Accept either answer. Any information on the Gulf’s dead zone? SGS 9. Golden color of the aspen trees. Can anyone find out why many aspen trees are dying? Maybe old age. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine, September 2007. 10. Nashville(TN) = N.E. Miami = N.W. SGS Chicago = S.E. Baltimore = S.W. 
11. MA, RI, CT, NY 12. New Orleans Saints 13. Appalachian Mountains SGS 14. Charleston, WV; Little Rock, AR 15. Columbia, SC 16. Baltimore, MD. Make a note now to check on the reopening in November of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History where the flag that inspired our national anthem will be displayed. The dimly lighted gallery will depict the flag “by the dawn’s early light”.
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Answer Key September 14, 2008 - Week #2 On July 18, 2008, Bertha officially became the longest-lived July tropical storm in history. Cristobal gave parched North Carolina some needed rain. Two inches in Wilmington, and five inches elsewhere. Actual number of hurricanes for this decade: Source: NOAA 2000 = 8, 2001 = 9, 2002 = 4, 2003 = 7, 2004 = 9, 2005 = 15, 2006 = 5, 2007 = 6 How many French fries will you GRAND FORKS HERALD students eat at the Potato Bowl this week? Ms. Lindlauf said you give free taters to out-of-staters. Is this true? * Some answers are written on solid lines like this: __________. Other answers are to be written on broken lines like this: _ _ _ _ _. The solid lines are used for very general answers. The broken line is a way of being more helpful to the student with the number of spaces matching the number of letters in the correct answer. September 11th is Patriot Day in commemoration of the terrorist attacks on the United States on 9-11, 2001. Give a moment of silence to honor those who lost their lives in the attacks. For junior high and high schools, assign 2-4 students to be “class reporters” throughout the football season to discuss every issue in the Patriot Act. With the November elections coming, will the candidates’ position on national security be observed more closely? Where will each student draw the line between security and tyranny? Follow the debates in your newspaper. September 17th is CONSTITUTION/CITIZENSHIP DAY. Perhaps a writing assignment on what it means to be a citizen in this great country of ours. www.americanpromise.com www.celebrationusa.org www.National-Education-Project.org www.constitutioncenter.org Students may request a free pocket copy of the Constitution at: www.heritage.org For BOSTON HERALD students. September 20th, is Red Auerbach’s birthday. The results of a poll asking which was the greatest Celtic team are as follows: 1885-86 Celtics = 64%; 1964-65 Celtics = 13%; 2007-08 Celtics = 11%; 1959-60 Celtics = 8% 1973-74 Celtics = 4% Can BOSTON HERALD students make a circle graph showing these percentages?
would like a 7-page teacher’s guide for you and your class to take a “trip” down the Mississippi River. Sept. 9th, is the 25th “birthday” of the Cabbage Patch Kids. Anyone still have a Cabbage Patch doll? Have you students in Eau Claire been to Eleva yet to go through the Favre cornfield maze? Want you students in Cincinnati, Toledo, Elyria and Youngstown to find out more about Mt. Buckeye that was sculpted out of butter at the Ohio State Fair. What do you know about the eight presidents? Did it look much like Mt. Rushmore? NEXT WEEK: Population table needed - Panhandle states - Harvest Moon - Great Lakes Peninsulas & peninsulas - USS Constitution “Old Ironsides” in Boston Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri - NFL Hall of Fame in Canton, OH Chimney Rock on the Oregon Trail in Nebraska Tom Thumb, the “Iron Horse”, lost to a horse in Baltimore Class project to become deltiologists—postcard collectors Have students enjoy silliness in America at: www.roadsideamerica.com 22
Answer Key September 21, 2008 - Week #3 1. Harvest Moon. The song, “Shine on Harvest Moon” was written in 1908 by Jack Norworth. 2. Atlanta, Boston(N.E.), Nashville(TN), Denver, Indianapolis 3. 1,512,986 – 581,530 = 931,456 Practice subtraction with all competing cities as much as necessary to master the skill. 4. Boston(N.E.) 5. NY Jets. The word transcontinental will be introduced later. SGS 6. Salton Sea, but it’s really a lake. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine, “Salton Sea”, February 2005, pages 88 – 107. SGS 7. NY, NJ, PA, WV, OH, IN, IL, MO, KS, CO, NM, AZ, CA. Any discussion on WV? SGS 8. Philadelphia. Have students consult the Study Hint Sheet and point out that both Pittsburgh and Philadelphia are located at the confluence of rivers. SGS 9. Lake of the Ozarks 10. San Francisco 11. San Francisco is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, the Golden Gate Strait and San Francisco Bay. 12. Door Peninsula 13. Baja California. Hope the Jets stay out of Tijuana. 14. Olympic Peninsula 15. Chesapeake Bay. The Delmarva Peninsula will be discussed later. 16. Cape Cod Peninsula. Does it really look like the toe of a fairy’s shoe? SGS 17. Zero, none, zip 18. Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie. Look at the back of a Michigan quarter. Since Lake Ontario doesn’t touch the state, many people are of the opinion that it shouldn’t be shown. What do you students in Michigan think? SGS 19. Detroit Lions. Oregon Trail SGS 20. Salt Lake City, UT; Madison, WI 21. Texas, Oklahoma, West Virginia. Point out that WV has a northern and eastern panhandle. SGS 22. Baton Rouge, LA; Oklahoma City, OK 23. USS Constitution 24. Baltimore, MD 25. Canton, OH 26. Chicago. Franklin Adams’ poem was “Baseball’s Sad Lexicon”. 27. A deltiologist is a postcard collector. Try to display a postcard in your classroom from every state and/or as many cities and states as possible.
Are you students in Fort Wayne, IN, enjoying the Johnny Appleseed Festival? Are you QUINCY HERLAD-WHIG students playing safe at Riverfest? Hope you FLINT JOURNAL students recognize GM’s 100th anniversary founded by one of Flint’s own. Has northbound traffic on I-75 backed up into Flint because of the Zilwaukee bridge construction?
California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco on September 27th. www.calacademy.org NEXT WEEK: Monday is the autumnal equinox - Mason-Dixon Line The Allegheny and Monongahela rivers form the Ohio River White sand beaches of the Florida panhandle Lewis & Clark return to St. Louis Suggestions for Character Education lessons 23
Answer Key September 28, 2008 - Week #4 English teachers will want to know about National Punctuation Day on Wednesday, Sept. 24th. www.nationalpunctuationday.com 1. TBD. Monday is the equinox, but the hours of daylight from sunrise to sunset will not equal 12 hours. Don’t ask why, it just never does. SGS 2. Atlanta Falcons, Baltimore Ravens If anyone says Denver because there is a Kansas City, KS, then give them credit for the geographic knowledge. However, Arrowhead Stadium is in Missouri. 3. Baltimore Ravens * You EVENING SUN students are only five miles from the line. Grab a pretzel. 4. The Allegheny and Monongahela rivers come together at the Golden Triangle. BEAVER COUNTY TIMES students had better know this!!! SGS 5. Oakland, Cincinnati 6. Green Bay Packers, San Diego Chargers 7. White sand beaches. NEWS HERALD students don’t have to answer this. SGS Any students in Panama City work at Pier Park? How often do you go there for entertainment? Have most of you HOUSTON CHRONICLE students been to Discovery Green?
Cleveland = S.W. San Diego = N.W. 9. Baton Rouge, LA ** Would students in Baton Rouge ADVOCATE the 49ers stopping by for a visit and some crawfish? If they stop, do you think Ms. Huckaby will come up with some lagniappe? Visitors to New Orleans might want to tell your biology teacher about the Insectarium. www.auduboninstitute.org 10. New York, Jacksonville 11. Oakland 12. St. Louis Rams 13. Santa Fe, NM; Indianapolis, IN 14. 8, 214, 426 – 1, 512, 986 = 6, 701, 440 SGS
between the free and slave states, but this was not its purpose. It was the result of a dispute between the Penns of Pennsylvania and the Calverts of Maryland. Milestones brought from England were set along the line. Referred to as “crown stones,” every fifth stone bore the arms of the Calvert family on one side and the Penn family on the other. This 233-mile line does not extend west of the Ohio River. Can they still be seen anywhere? This line was later used in the Missouri Compromise to settle an issue of free and slave states, and the term is generically used to mean a line between the North and the South.
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Answer Key September 28, 2008 - Week #4 A March 2008 survey by Greyhound Bus Company ask: How many states have Americans visited? The results were: 1 – 2 states 16% 3 – 9 22% 10 – 19 30% 20 – 29 17% 30 plus 15%
responsibility to the fans and community, etc. Tennessee Titan Jevon Kearse was arrested on June 22nd in Nashville for driving under the Influence. How is Adam “Pacman” Jones behaving with the Cowboys as his new team? He had six arrests and 12 incidents requiring police intervention since being drafted by the Tennessee Titans in 2005. He was suspended by the NFL in April 2007, for his connection to a shooting in a Las Vegas club. On March 6th, Brandon Marshall of the Denver Broncos was arrested for allegedly hitting his girlfriend. On June 21st, Ahmad Bradshaw began serving a 30-day sentence for probation violation. In his past he has been arrested for underage drinking, resisting an arrest and for allegedly stealing a video game. On June 23rd, Dwayne Jarrett of the Carolina Panthers pleaded guilty of driving while impaired. He had to surrender his driver’s license, pay $420.00, do 24-hours of community service, and enter the NFL’s substance abuse program. “Jeremy Shockey is yet another great example of an athlete who has been coddled since his tee ball days. His ego has grown to the point where he has zero respect for any authority figures.” Source: The Sporting News, June 30, 2008, page 10. On June 30th, The N.E. Patriots’ Willie Andrews was arrested and held in jail without bail for allegedly pointing a gun at his girlfriend’s head. Ravens ‘ Derrick Martin was charged with drug possession after being found with three packets of suspected marijuana in the Cleveland airport. He appeared in court July 15th. On July 9th, New England’s Kevin Faulk pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor marijuana charge.
Source and Mouth of Mississippi River Confluence of Mississippi and Ohio rivers Mt. Mitchell is the tallest peak east of the Mississippi River Everglades National Park - Carlsbad Caverns Wheat growing states. (winter wheat and spring wheat) Works of Frederic S. Remington - Writer Damon Runyan and sports “Song of Hiawatha” and “Evangeline” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 25
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