Frozen history: The story of the Popsicle

What is dessert?

• A sweet food, often eaten at the end of a meal.

• A place that is really hot

• Something salty that you eat.

• Something you eat after breakfast.

Which question is answered in the introduction?

• How did Chinese people make sorbet?

• Why do spice syrups taste good on ice?

• When was Thomas Jefferson the president?

• Who went into the mountains for blocks of ice?

Read the section “A Tasty Mistake.” Which sentence from the section explains how Frank loosened the ice pop?

• He left a glass outside overnight

• The next morning, young Frank found the glass.

• He ran the glass under hot water.

• Frank knew he’d stumbled across a great idea.

Cherry is still the most popular.

Which word could replace “popular” WITHOUT changing the meaning of the sentence?

• expensive

• healthy

• loved

• tasty

He ate them when he traveled to China.

What does the word “traveled” mean?

• called

• left

• talked

• visited

What does the word “patent” mean?

• Someone in the hospital.

• An official document that gives a person or company the right to be the only one that makes or sells a product for a certain number of years.

• A letter to a person

• An invention

What does the word “invention” mean?

• Something new and useful that has been created or thought up.

• Something made up

• A old computer

• Someone that helps you

What does “Great Depression” mean?

• A time when everyone had money

• A time in the 1950's when we just got out of war

• A time in the 1930s when there was very little economic activity in the U.S. and many people were poor.

• A time of happiness

Who made the first popsicle

• Alex Ohlsen

• Frank Epperson

• John Adam

• Ryan Smith

The first Popsicles sold for just ________ cents each

• 5

• 10

• 15

• 20