CONTENT TEST #2

Which of the following elements would most likely be found in a work of science fiction?

a moral conflict between human and nonhuman characters

what elements in music resembles a vertical squiggly line?

a quarter rest

Which of the following options best describes what melody refers to in a musical composition?

a series of tones

As part of a unit about matter, a fourth grade teacher provides students with a. recipe for homemade play dough and sufficient amounts of flour, salt, food coloring, oil, and water to make a batch of the dough. The teacher then asks students to develop a question that could be used as the basis to further investigate the properties of the play dough. Which of the following is the best example of a scientific question that achieves this objective?

"What happens if the amount of oil is changed?"

A rectangular garden is to be enclosed with a 48 feet of fencing. The ratio of length to width of the garden needs to be 5:3. What is the area of the garden if all the fencing must be used?

135 square feet

A second grade teacher plans to start a vegetable garden to help students learn about the resources required for plant growth. The teacher uses stakes and string to mark a 5 foot by 5 foot plot of ground, but determines it would only provide enough space for each student to grow one plant. In order for each student to have enough space to grow two plants, the teacher plans to double the area of the first plot. What will be the total area of the enlarged plot?

50 square feet

Which of the following situations best illustrates the concept of voluntary exchange in a market economy?

A company offers a job seeker an hourly rate that potential employee accepts in return for his labor

A first grade teacher is looking for a decodable text to give a small group of students to reinforce their word reading development. The students have already received instruction in single consonants, consonant blends, and short vowel sounds. The students have also been taught basic high frequency grade level sight words. Which of the following sentences could be included in a decodable text that is appropriate for these students?

Jon gets a hit with his bat and runs fast.

An elementary school teacher wants to use a set of student developed classroom rules to illustrate how laws can help protect individual freedoms. Which of the following classroom rules would best serve this purpose?

Listen respectfully while others are speaking

As part of a unit about disease prevention, students are learning about how researchers link the presence of a certain strain of bacteria to the occurrence of a specific disease. Which of the following is the strongest evidence that a strain of bacterial is the cause of a particular disease?

The bacteria can be isolated from all individuals exhibiting disease symptoms but not from unaffected individuals.

There are six blocks on a table. A child counts each block while saying the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Which of the following provides the best evidence that the child has developed concept of cardinality?

The child can state how many blocks are on the table without recounting them

Which of the following research questions most clearly focuses on the geographic concept of place?

What physical characteristics distinguish the Andes Mountains from the Rocky Mountains?

Which of the following questions would be most appropriate for a first-grade teacher to ask as part of a lesson on phonemic blending?

What word am I trying to say: /f/ /I/ /sh/?

A fifth grade teacher regularly incorporates technology in instruction for various purposes. In an upcoming lesson, the teacher would like to promote a collaborative classroom environment by having students post a written response to an assigned text in which they reflect on connections they make to the text as they read. The teacher wants students to read and reply to their classmates reflections but would like to be able to screen the responses before students post them. Which of the following forms of technology would best achieve the teacher's goals for this activity?

a group blog

Two students have worked together to design a science fair project that examines the effect of sugar concentration on the respiration rate of baker's yeast. They set up three test tubes, each containing one tablespoon of yeast taken from the same package. They measure and add the same amount of filtered apple juice to each test tube. they then add a half teaspoon of sugar to the first test tube, a whole teaspoon of sugar to the second test tube, and two teaspoons of sugar to the third test tube. The students know that respiration will produce gas, so they attach a deflated balloon to the top of each test tube and plan to identify signs of respiration by observing how long it takes the balloons to inflate enough to Stan erect. Each test tube is placed in the same sunlit corner of the room to ensure that temperature and light conditions are the same. Which of the following modifications would significantly increase the scientific validity of this experiment?

adding a fourth test tube containing only yeast and tap water

In an introductory unit on electricity, fourth grade students are investigating how to connect wires between a battery and an LED clock in order to start the clock. In their first attempt, a working group has attached one electrical wire between the negative terminal of a battery and the positive terminal of the clock. Another electrical wire connects the negative terminal of the clock to the positive terminal of the battery. The clock fails to work. Which of the following actions can the students take to increase the likelihood that their clock will start working?

adding an additional battery in series to increase the voltage of the circuit setup

During morning meeting in a first grade class, students and their teacher discuss the day's posted schedule, and the teacher tells students that they should check the schedule periodically during the day. As the day progresses, several students who have listening challenges appear to be unaware of upcoming transitions. Despite the teacher's verbal reminders, the students have difficulty beginning transitions in a timely manner. To help the students better anticipate the teacher's verbal reminders and transition successfully to new activities, the teacher should implement which of the following strategies?

adding clear visual prompts to the posted schedule

A second grade teacher wants to use a method of student self evaluation to assess art exercises. Which of the following approaches would be most effective with this age group?

asking students to fill out a worksheet after each exercise and address prompts such as "What I enjoyed most" and "Something interesting I learned"

Elementary school students are learning about the various classes of animals with backbones. Their teacher also is trying to encourage the students science-reasoning skills. Which of the following strategies is likely to be most effective in helping students learn to develop arguments from evidence?

asking students to make a claim about an animals classification, and to give the reasons for their assertion

A fourth grade teacher is conducting a writing conference with a student about a draft in progress. The teacher recognizes that one paragraph lacks focus and doe not connect to the rest of the draft. Which of the following approaches by the teacher would most effectively guide the student in revising the draft?

asking the student to state the drafts main idea and the paragraphs main idea

Which of the following word lists could be used to provide upper elementary school students with practice in analyzing words with a common Latin root?

audible, audience, auditorium

Which of the following exercises would most likely encourage fourth grade students exploration of personal feelings?

creating a pencil drawing of a family member or friend

During an outdoor activity, elementary students practice jumping and landing for distance in sand. Which of the following techniques is an essential element of the horizontal jump?

bending the hips, knees, and ankles on landing

A third grade teacher has developed an activity to support a unit on the water cycle. Stations representing various components of the water cycle have been set up in different areas of the classroom. Students will rotate through the different stations and "act out" each of the different states of water using simple costumes and movements. Which additional action by the students would most effectively promote their understanding of the water cycle?

charting their paths as they move from station to station on a diagram of the water cycle

In the US political process, an important role of political parties is to:

clarify the philosophical and policy choices available to voters

A species of small bird is known to ride on the back of elephants. As the elephant moves through the fields, insects dislodged from the grasses fly about and are eaten by the bird. While the elephant does not obtain any benefit from the bird's presence, it is also not disturbed by it. The relationship between the small bird and the elephant is an example of:

commensalism

Which of the following tactics is an important defensive strategy to teach student in lead-up games because of its common use in invasion0 or territory-type games (Basketball, field hockey, soccer)?

containing, reducing, pr denying open space while the opposition is on the move

A student was confused to where to place the decimal point in the result of the product 24.5 x 0.02. Which of the following activities would best help the student understand decimal point placement when finding the product of two decimal numbers?

converting decimals to fraction equivalents and finding the fraction products

Second grade students have gathered and organized information for oral repots on a science topic of their choice. Which of the following activities would most effectively enhance students' ability to convey facts and details about their topic during their presentation?

creating visual representations of important information

A teacher asks students to use pattern blocks to cover geometric design. This activity lays the foundation for:

decomposing polygons into simpler shapes

Smooth muscle is involved in which of the following body actions?

digesting the nutrients in a meal

A third grade class works in small groups to create short dances expressing poems they have read. In the final activity of the lesson, each group will perform its dance for the rest of the class. When the class is seated to watch the performances, which of the following actions by the teacher would be most appropriate?

discussing audience skills of observing quietly and attentively and showing appreciation at proper times

As shown in the diagram, maple trees produce double seeds with each seed attached to an elongated flat structure. Which of the following explanations best describes the function of these specialized structures?

dispersing the seeds across a large area

Which of the following lists would be the most useful in assessing a first grade student's grasp of letter sound correspondences and ability to apply them in decoding a variety of regular closed-syllable words?

dot, pen, sum, rib

Information about the location and environment of particular cultural group in premodern Europe would most likely provide a researcher with the greatest insight into the group's:

economic activities

In addition to providing structural support, cell walls in plants also:

enable cells to withstand significant internal water pressure without rupturing

During the Elizabeth era in England, the plays of William Shakespeare served primarily which of the following purposes?

entertaining the public

During a lesson on interpersonal communication skills, the class discusses the role of assertive communication. Which of the following descriptions accurately characterizes assertive communication?

expressing one's needs, wants, and feelings in a firm, confident, but nonaggressive way

According to research, students generally have the most difficulty learning sound-letter relationships for letters whole sounds are not part of the letter's name. For which of the following sets of letter-sound correspondences should a teacher allow more instructional time?

h-/h/ and w-/w/A

A third grade teacher has placed everyday objects such as pencils, small blocks, erasers, and toy cars into small covered boxes. The boxes, which each contain a single object and have been sealed with tape, are distributed to students. The students are instructed to interact with their box without opening it and then make a claim about its contents. Which of the following changes to this activity would most effectively strengthen students' scientific thinking and reasoning skills?

having students identify observations from their investigation of the box that support their claim

Second graders are observing plants and animals present in their school environment as part of a life sciences unit. Which of the following activities utilizing educational technology would be most appropriate for strengthening the students' understanding of these organisms?

having students photograph local plants and animals with digital cameras and using the photos to create a class field guide that describes each organism

A sixth grade teacher wants to promote students ability to use writing to develop and express their understanding of content area concepts and skills. Which of the following strategies should the teacher use first for this purpose?

having students regularly perform quick writes in response to content area learning activities and discuss their writing with a partner

A second grade teacher is planning to read aloud a narrative text to students. Which of the following approaches to conducting the read aloud would best strengthen students oral language development, thereby promoting the developmental process of reading aquistion?

having students use think-pair-share to orally answer a question related to the story's main idea

During a unit on pollution, a teacher in an upper elementary school classroom leads a student discussion about an article in the local newspaper on a decision to ban swimming and other recreational activities in a local pond that was found to contain a high level of pollutants. The class shows great interest, and the teacher engages students in research projects related to the problem of the polluted pond. The class will be divided into small groups, with each group responsible for researching a relevant topic. The teacher can best promote students' social science inquiry skills by taking which of the following actions first?

helping students in each group define one or more essential questions they would like to answer about the pond

Obesity places children at a heightened risk for which of the following health conditions?

high blood pressure and insulin resistance

In a democratic system, active participation by informed citizens is generally most effective in helping achieve which of the following goals?

holding elected representatives accountable to their constituents

An individual decides to develop a personal budget. After determining monthly income from all sources, the individuals next step in the budget development process should be to:

identify fixed monthly expenses (rent, automobile payments)

The worldwide expansion of Internet availability and access that has occurred in recent decades is most strongly associated with which of the following changes?

increased access to diverse information, ideas, and perspectives for people across the globe

During a fitness activity, students walk halfway around an outdoor track, then job halfway around the track, and then run halfway again around the track. After completing each of the three sections, students check their breathing and pulse and describe them with words such as slow, easy, fast, average, and heavy. This type of activity is particularly effective for:

increasing students' awareness of variable levels of cardiorespiratory exercise intensity

Several fifth grade students appear eager to participate in class discussions, but they are unable to formulate a response to questions when called upon. AS a first step toward helping the students, the teacher posts on a wall chart several starter sentences that the students can use when responding to discussion questions. Which of the following steps should the teacher take next to promote the students participation in class discussions?

increasing the amount of time the teacher waits for students' responses

An elementary school teacher is teaching a lesson on responsible onlooker (bystander) behavior in bullying situations. The teacher emphasizes to students that onlooker behavior can encourage or discourage bullying behavior. Which of the following topics would be most important to focus on during this lesson?

interventions that students can use when they witness bullying

A first grade teacher provides students with an activity sheet with pictures of common objects on it, along with write on lines beneath each picture. The teacher displays a flash card with the letter d on it and says to the students., "Which object on your sheet begins with the letter d? Write the letter d under the picture whose name begins with /d/." Which of the following areas of early literacy is most directly supported by this activity?

letter-sound correspondence

At the beginning of the school year, the results of a screening assessment indicate that a first grade student has limited letter identification skills. Which of the following strategies would be most effective for the teacher to use firs to promote the students development of letter knowledge?

linking letter-name and sound instruction for each unknown letter, and having the student practice forming each target letter while saying its name and sound

a substance that has a fixed volume, is virtually incompressible, and takes the shape of its container is most likely a

liquid

Political systems grounded in communist ideology are most often characterized by

low levels of individual freedom

A teacher could best use which of the following examples to illustrate the role of the government in resolving conflicts?

maintaining a court system that citizens can access

Which of the following activities is most likely to stimulate children's understanding of the visual arts element known as form?

making a sculpture using inflated balloons

Activity in which of the following areas contribute most to the Illinois economy?

manufacturing

Over the course of the elementary school years (K-6), physical coordination and balance improves and students become more proficient at catching, throwing, kicking, and striking. In addition to practice, which of the following developments exerts the most significant influence on these motor abilities?

maturation of the body's nervous system

Which of the following number representations would be most appropriate for introducing concepts and principles associated with positive and negative integers?

number line

Increased economic prosperity in China would be expected to benefit the United States mainly because a more prosperous China would:

offer US firms greater opportunities to expand their markets

A sixth grade teacher is planning to show students several video clips of inaugural addresses delivered by past US presidents. The teacher wants to promote students active listening skills, as well as facilitating students ability to understand the video clips. Which of the following strategies would be most effective for the teacher to use for this purpose?

pausing the video clips at predetermined intervals for students to talk to a partner about what they heard

Students are investigating how water affects plant growth. Each students has a total of five bean seedlings. The seedlings are planted in five separate containers that are placed on a bookshelf beneath a large window. Plants will be water every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday during a two week period. During each watering, plant 1 will receive 0.5 mL of water, plant 2 will get 1.0 of water, plant 3- 1.5 water, plant 4-2.0 water, plant 5- no water. At the end of the two week period, the amount of plant growth will be determined by subtracting the initial height of the plant from the final height. the students will present the results with a line graph that has dependent variable on y axis. Which variables should the students plot along the y-axis of their graph?

plant height

Spelling stages of development

precommunicative, semiphonic, phonic, transitional, conventional (correct)

The system of checks and balances as described in Articles I, II, III of the US Constitution was developed as a means to

prevent political power from consolidating in any one branch of government

A teacher has students modeling integers from 2 through twenty by creating rectangular arrays using square tiles. The students notice that some numbers can be modeled using different arrays; for example, 8 can be modeled with a 2 by 4 array and a 1 by 8 array. If only one array is possible for a given integer n, where n>1, then it must be true that n is:

prime

A fifth grade teacher regularly uses drama activities to teach social studies content. In one activity, the students portray delegates to the Constitutional Convention and debate different ways of structuring the government. This approach is most effective for accomplishing which of the following?

promoting an understanding of the actions of historical figures

According to current research in the field of reading, which of the following strategies would be most effective in developing students' academic language knowledge?

promoting students engagement in wide reading with opportunities to discuss and write about the texts

Which of the following teacher demonstrations would be the most effective way to introduce the concept of mechanical energy to elementary students?

rolling a model car down a ramp to the floor

A fourth grade teacher describes to students how to recognize various text organizational structures (cause/effect, comparison/contrast, problem/solution) and how to use text structure to aid in reading comprehension. The teacher then models how to apply the text structure strategy with a passage from an informational social studies text. Which of the following steps should the teacher take next in this lesson?

providing guided practice of the skill with a different text

One goal of a second grade physical activity unit is to reinforce the fundamental motor skills and basic concepts of rhythm that students have been taught. Which of the following instructional approaches is likely to be most appropriate to use as a culminating activity to promote and reinforce second-grade students' understanding of rhythmic movement?

providing small groups of students with choices of music with simple tempos and asking each group to design a basic dance sequence set to music

Fourth grade students are using cardboard boxes, aluminum foil, and cotton balls to create containers that will slow the rate at which an ice cube melts. Students are asked to write up a simple report about their experiment, including the procedure they used and their results. Several students in the class have learning challenges related to the sequential ordering of processes and ideas. Which of the following strategies could the teacher imply to the best support all students in completing the assignment?

providing students with a graphic organizer designed for this activity

Which of the following actions by an elementary school teacher best demonstrates an awareness of the interconnections among literacy skills across the curriculum?

providing students with opportunities to read and write about fiction and nonfiction texts related to concepts they are studying in content-area lessons

Several students in an elementary school classroom are English language learners. The teacher would like to differentiate instruction to promote development of their ability to comprehend and analyze informational texts. Which of the following strategies would be most effective for the teacher to use for this purpose?

providing the students with scaffolding to help them access the texts content

Which of the following words would be the most appropriate for a second-grade teacher to use when providing instruction to students on the closed-syllable pattern VC/CV?

public

Much of the art of the Renaissance served primarily which of the following purposes?

reflecting religious values

Fourth grade students are working in small groups to research and write informative essays on related topics. While gathering information from teacher selected texts, students write down relevant key words and their definitions. The students then post these wins on a chart displayed in the front of the classroom. Students can refer to the chart when drafting their essays. This activity will benefit students writing development primarily by

scaffolding students' academic vocabulary growth

In the contemporary debate in the United States regarding the environment, controversy most often arises as a result of diverse perspectives on the:

scope of the government's power to regulate business and the economy

A third grade teacher is planning to conduct a close reading of a nonfiction historical narrative. A teacher is selecting general-academic and content-specific words from the text to teach explicitly to the class during reading. Which of the following prep reading strategies would best address the linguistic needs of an emerging-level English language learner in the class?

selecting Tier One words from the text to preach to the student explicitly

A first grade teacher plans to use a graphic organizer to guide students in identifying and analyzing key ideas and details in an informational text. Which of the following types of graphic organizers would be most appropriate for the teacher to use in this purpose?

semantic map

The substantial diversity observed in the behavioral norms, values, beliefs, interests, and tastes of individuals and groups can best be understood as a result of differences in:

socialization

During a physical activity, students travel through an obstacle course that includes "tunnels" that go under benches and between mats, "rivers" marked by long jump ropes, "mountains" of foam blocks, and "twisted trails" marked by cones. In this movement activity, students are primarily exploring:

spatial awareness concepts such as pathways, levels, and relationships to objects

Which of the following visual arts technique is most appropriate for first-grade students to use?

stamping

Which of the following graphic organizers would be most helpful in supporting second grade students as they write a narrative?

storyboard

Moderate to vigorous physical activity contributes to decreased risk of coronary artery disease by:

strengthening the heart muscle and increasing its pumping capacity

Third grade students are excited to be making a model volcano, which will erupt as a result of a simple acid-base reaction. Which of the following is the most important safety procedure to have in place prior to this activity?

students should be wearing protective eye gear

The term spring tide refers to a high tide that is slightly higher in depth than average and a low tide that is slightly lower in depth than average. Earth is most likely to experience a spring tide when the:

sun, moon, and Earth are situated in a straight line

In an individualized strengthening programs, which of the following practices is most important for students to use to ensure that their muscles and other tissues undergo restoration and repair?

taking a day off between strengthening sessions and getting adequate rest

A third grade teacher is working with a group of students who have achieved grade level benchmarks for accuracy and rate but who need to improve their prosody. The teacher plans a sequence of fluency lessons designed to address the students' needs. Which of the following activities would be the most effective for the teacher to use first in this sequence of instruction?

teacher modeling by reading a target passage aloud

An entering level English language learner has acquired grade level literacy skills in the home language. Which of the following features of the home language would be most likely to support the transfer of basic literacy skills from the student's home language to English?

the home language's writing system is alphabetic as is English

A researcher would find a physical map most useful for identifying:

the location of major rivers and lakes in Africa

While researching bacterial growth in 1928, Alexander Fleming observed that the presence of a specific type of mold resulted in the death of bacterial colonies that came in contact with the mold. This discovery led directly to which of the following advances?

the use of antibiotics such as penicillin for the treatment of infection

A fifth grade teacher wants to promote students use of Standard American English grammar during formal presentations. Which of the following initial approaches would be most effective for the teacher to use for this purpose?

using authentic oral exchanges as opportunities to gently correct students' misuse of Standard American English grammar

Reading research conducted using scientific based research methods has identified which of the following areas as on elf the five essential components of an effective reading instruction program?

vocabulary development

Which of the following physical activities would be most effective for developing and improving students' visual tracking skills and hand-eye coordination?

volleying balloons to partners using paddles

As the concluding activity for a unit on tall tales, a third grade teacher plans to have students compose original tall tales and post them on a class blog. Students will then read their classmates' tall tales and post comments. To ensure that students; comments are constructive, the teacher should engage students in which of the following activities?

working with students to develop guidelines for providing feedback