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Sources of Trivia: Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader: Use questions from the game. Trivial Pursuit and Trivial Pursuit Jr. Questions from middle school academic team. Books in teacher supply stores with educational questions. The publication, Classroom Connect, Connected Newsletter has a calendar page each month with a research question. For example in the March 2007, it says for the 15th, Kites, How were kites used during World War I. Then it gives a website:  [|www.gombergkites.com/nkm/hist1.htmlInternet]  searches on specific topics Uncle John's Bathroom Readers. Here's some information from the ASLA Conference workshop by Jennifer A. Wetzel Library Media Specialist/School Technology Coordinator Hendron-Lone Oak Elementary School The following websites are good sites for obtaining riddles or core content questions for a weekly trivia contest.

· Brain Food  http://rinkworks.com/brainfood/riddles.shtml · National Institute of Environment Health Sciences  http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/braint.htm · Az Kids Net  http://www.azkidsnet.com/riddles.htm · Kids Domain  http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/ · Fun Trivia  [|http://www.funtrivia.com] · CIA Homepage for Kids  http://www.cia.gov/cia/ciakids/games/ · Time for Kids  http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/games/ <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Some places I get ideas are: I have an "author and illustrator" calendar, and a lot of times the questions are about an author whose birthday is that week. I also do questions about things we are studying in library classes that week (I'm on a fixed schedule). Sometimes I look on this website for ideas: <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> http://www.kidsreads.com/funstuff/trivia/index.asp <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">And sometimes they're just general library skills questions like: Where would you find Dr. Seuss' books in our library? How are fiction books in order?, etc. Daily there are questions to answer at the National Geographic Society's web site: <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geographybee/ <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">presidential trivia <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> http://www.apples4theteacher.com/prestriv.html

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">science trivia <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> http://sciencespot.net/Pages/triviatogo.html http://sciencespot.net/Pages/trivia.html

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">various subject areas <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> http://www.internet4classrooms.com/subject_area.htm http://kids.aol.com/homework-help/brain-games [|http://www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/geography/physical_geography/bodies_of_water.ht ml] <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> (this is just one of many topics)

are you smarter than a 5th grader? <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> [|http://television.aol.com/tv-trivia-quiz/smarter-than-fifth-grader-elementary-te st] <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Poll your teachers and take a question from each discipline. You could also do famous book/movie quotes.