Select the RELEVANT evidence for this claim: Students should spend 3 weeks during summer preparing for the upcoming school year.

Students and teachers will spend less time reviewing old material and more time learning new information at the beginning of the school year.

Families will be able to spend more time on vacation before the school year starts.

Select the IRRELEVANT evidence for this claim: Schools should require all students to be involved in after-school activities.

Students may not have the time after school for activities due to homework or at-home responsibilities.

After-school activities will help students be opened up to many job opportunities.

Activities will help students with social skills as they learn how to do activities with other students.

Select the IRRELEVANT pieces of evidence for this claim (CHOOSE MORE THAN ONE): Schools should require students to wear uniforms.

Students would not be able to express individuality at school.

Families would save money by not buying as many clothes for school.

Students would not break the dress code at school.

Students would not bully others for their clothing.

Select the RELEVANT pieces of evidence for this claim (CHOOSE MORE THAN ONE): Students should not be able to have phones in school.

Phones cause distractions in classrooms.

Phones create access to cyberbullying in school.

Phones help students cheat in classrooms.

Phones are essential in case of emergencies at school.

Phones help students look up information in the classroom.

This paragraph is about the life and reproduction of the queen termite. Which sentence is irrelevant?`

Some termite hills can be over six meters high.

The longest-lives creature in the insect world is the queen termit (ant).

She has been known to live for 50 years.

During that time, the queen can lay over 30,000 eggs each day.

So in her 50 years of life, it is possible for her to give birth to half a billion children.

This paragraph is about the invention of the book. Which sentence is irrelevant?

Gutenberg died at the age of 68.

Most people could never own a book.

Then sometime between 1450 and 1460, Johannes Gutenberg got the idea of carving separate letters and moving them to make new words.

This was the invention of moveable type.

From then on, the numbers of books grew quickly.

This paragraph is about the origin of the solar system. Which sentence is irrelevant?

Earth is the third planet from the Sun.

`The solar system is believed to have formed, perhaps 5 billion years ago, from a spinning cloud of gas called a nebula.

As this nebula contracted, it began to spin faster and faster.

Probably, it spun off rings of planetary matter as it became more disk-like.

These rings later contracted into planets.

This paragraph is about “breaching” (whales leaping from the water). Which sentence is irrelevant?

Some people do not know that the whale is a mammal just like a human.

Humpback whales will sometimes leap clear up out of the water, an act known as breaching.

A humpback whale can weigh thirty tons and measure 15 meters in length.

So, it takes an enormous amount of energy for a whale to breach.

This paragraph is about the regulation of body temperature by the skin. Which sentence is irrelevant?

Heavy smoking ages skin quickly.

The largest organ in the human body is the skin.

One of the skin’s functions is to help regulate the amount of body heat that flows in and out of the body.

When it is cold, we cover the skin with extra layers of clothing to slow down the outward flow of heat.

When it is hot, evaporation of sweat cools us down.

This paragraph is about the importance of Lake Baikal for the animals that live there. Which sentence is irrelevant?

The name Baikal comes from the Mongolian word that means “nature”.

The lake contains about one sixth of the world’s fresh water supply.

It contains over 1200 species of animals and 500 species of plants.

Many of these plants and animals are not to be found anywhere else on earth.

Lake Baikal in Central Asia, is the deepest lake in the world.

This paragraph is about the densty of ice and its consequences. Which sentence is irrelevant?

The chemical formula for water is H2O.

Ice floats on water because it is not quite as dense as water.

If ice were denser than water, then lakes and other bodies of water would freeze from the bottom up during winter.

Fish would surface and eventually die.

This paragraph is about how bats can navigate in the dark. Which sentence is irrelevant?

Many bats prefer to eat fruit rather than insects.

Bats are able to maneuver in the dark even if they are blindfolded.

Bats emit very high pitched sound waves through their nostrils.

The reflection of these sound waves, reaching their sensitive ears, enables bats to avoid obstacles.

In this way, they can capture even very tiny insects.

This paragraph is about how fast cheetahs can move. Which sentence is irrelevant?

Cheetahs, like leopards, are covered in spots.

The cheetah, which is found mostly in Africa and India, is one of the fastest land animals.

They have long and muscular legs.

Cheetahs have been known to sprint at a speed of over 60 miles per hour.

On a long distance run, however, a cheetah can be overtaken by a horse.

This paragraph is about a comparison of the leg widths of different animals. Which sentence is irrielevant?

Indian elephants have smaller ears than African elephants.

The larger an animal is , the larger the diameter of its legs.

A horse’s legs are somewhat thicker and those of an elephant are even thicker.

If the elephant were much larger, its legs would touch one another and it wouldn’t be able to move at all.

What choice is relevant to the idea that there are four months of the year with ONLY 30 days

September, April, June and November

January, February, March and April

September, October, November, December

There is a present on the kitchen table for a baby girl. Which of the following statements is best related to the one above?

Someone is going to a baby shower

Your little sister is celebrating a birthday

A woman drives up to the machine and inserts her money. She is instructed to drive forward to the green arrow. Next, the water sprays the car from the front to the back. Soon all the dirt and grime is washed away. The woman is driving a blue RAV4. The stunning blue of the car shines in the sunlight fresh from the car wash. Which detail could be taken out of this paragraph?

The woman is driving a blue RAV4

She is instructed to forward to the green arrows.

A woman drives up to the machine and inserts her money.

The stunning blue of the car shines in the light, fresh from the car wash.

Giant jellyfish have been visiting the beaches in New Zealand. The beaches are covered with different types of shells. Jellyfish might be coming there because the sea has been getting warmer. Also, Scientists think people may have caught too many fish. Some fish eat jellyfish. Which sentence does not belong in the paragraph?

The beaches are covered with different types of shells.

Giant jellyfish have been visiting the beaches in New Zealand.

Also, Scientists think people may have caught too many fish.

Which detail is irrelevant?

It's called April Fool's Day, and is celebrated around the world.

Crimes are not the only cases Catherine Thacker works on. Sometimes her job is to find out if two people are related. People who are related have DNA that is very similar. What sentence would fit in this paragraph?

If two sets of DNA are close enough, that would show that they are related.

Thacker looks at tiny drops of blood or bits of hair or skin.

Genes are passed down from parent to child

Doug Duncan runs a planetarium at the University of Colorado. He remembers a strange animal experience in Bolivia, a country in South America. A line of llamas formed beside him and his co-workers to watch the eclipse. Duncan also watched another eclipse from his boat. Which piece of evidence shows Duncan observed weird animal behavior?

A line of llamas formed beside him and his co-workers to watch the eclipse.

He remembers a strange animal experience in Bolivia, a country in South America.

Doug Duncan runs a planetarium at the University of Colorado.

Duncan also watched another eclipse from his boat.

What we know as cotton candy was introduced at the 1904 World's Fair. Which detail would most likely be included in a paragraph with this claim?

More than 68,00 boxes of cotton candy were sold during that fair.

The World's Fair took place in Chicago.

You can buy cotton candy at the circus.

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CCSS.RI.7.8

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Evidence that DOES NOT connect to the claim is _______________ evidence.

Relevant

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CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Select the IRRELEVANT evidence for this claim: Dogs are better than cats.

Dogs are quicker to train in a household.

Dogs are more lovable than cats.

Dogs are always happy to see their owners.

Dogs are clumsy and shed their hair everywhere in the house.

Dogs are more adventurous than cats.

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CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

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CCSS.RL.7.1

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Select the IRRELEVANT evidence for this claim: The driving age should be lowered.

Lowering the driving age would make teens more responsible.

Newer, young drivers are twice as likely to cause car accidents than older, experienced drivers.

Teens have much better eyesight when they are younger, which would help their driving.

Teens can get jobs at a younger age because their parents won't have to drive them.

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CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Select the RELEVANT evidence for this claim: Schools should start later in the morning.

Students would be more awake in class for getting more sleep in the mornings.

Schools would get out later in the day, which gives students less time to complete homework or after school activities.

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CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

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2 mins • 1 pt

Select the IRRELEVANT evidence for this claim: School buses should require all students to wear a seat belt.

In case of an accident, students will stay safe in their seats.

Students would not be able to exit the bus as quickly in case of a car accident or fire if they had seatbelts on.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

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2 mins • 1 pt

Select the RELEVANT evidence for this claim: Children should be given allowance for doing chores.

Earning money for chores will help children learn responsibility very early in life.

Children can become irresponsible by spending all of the money they earn right away.

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CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

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