The WORMHOLE Activities

EVALUATION

Deck of Cards
Turn characters or objects from THE Wormhole into a deck of cards.


MATERIALS: 52 blank index cards, black pen, red pen,
and crayons, markers or colored pencils


STEP ONE: Divide cards into four sets of 13
STEP TWO: Use one set of 13
Use black pen to one make one card "A "
Place the value in upper left and lower right corners of the card
Repeat for the rest of the cards:2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K
STEP THREE: Use the black pen to add a club  
next to each value
STEP FOUR: Repeat step TWO
using black pen and make the suit a spade
STEP FIVE: Repeat step TWO
using a red pen and make the suit a diamond  
STEP SIX: Repeat step TWO
using a red pen and make the suit a heart
STEP SEVEN: Place all cards of the same value together
You will have 13 stacks of 4 cards each
STEP EIGHT: Select 13 characters or objects from The Wormhole
STEP NINE: Arrange them in descending value
from most important "A"  to least important "2"
STEP TEN: Draw a picture for each character or object
in the center of the card





Reading Comprehension 

Multiple Choice

Select the best answer for each question
THE PORTAL
_____1.Why was Bruno called a cheater after he finished 
the Soap Box Derby Race?
  1. He copied Ed’s car.
  2. He didn’t weigh enough.
  3. He placed loose pieces of wood in the car.
  4. He wasn’t old enough to race.
_____2.What were two things that the cavemen made?
  1. Fire and houses
  2. Spear thrower and flatbread
  3. Rainbows and umbrellas
  4. Shoes and the wheel 
_____3.What is a wormhole?
  1. Shelter that worms dig to protect 
themselves from rain.
  1. The name of a time machine.
  2. A pathway for time travel.
  3. One of Newton’s formulas
_____4.What type of animal eats meat?
  1. a horse
  2. all animals eat meat
  3. carnivore
  4. herbivore
_____5.How did the caveman turn out to be a friend?
  1. He saved their lives.
  2. He pretended not to see Lonnie and Tilly.
  3. He showed them the opening to the portal.
  4. He found shelter from the rain for Lonnie and Tilly.
THE COIN
_____6.What did the Regurgitator use in his act that helped Tilly?
  1. How to juggle
  2. That lighter kerosene would float on water
  3. That hazelnuts won’t catch on fire
  4. How to build a wooden castle
_____7.What is a scarab?
  1. A type of Egyptian coin
  2. A way to write in Egyptian
  3. An amulet that gave protection to its owner
  4. The name of the cart that carried Selene.
_____8.Why did Tilly go through the portal to Greece twice?
  1. She got lost the first time
  2. To replace the coin that Bruno gave away
  3. She got lost the first time
  4. The lightning scared her away
_____9.Why did the plate fly away when Tilly hit it with her elbow?
  1. Because they were in a wormhole
  2. Because of Einstein’s law of time travel
  3. Because of one of Newton’s laws
  4. Because the soldier pushed Tilly as she bent over
_____10.Who was Selene’s father?
  1. Anthony
  2. Cesar
  3. King Juba
  4. No one knows for sure, it was not chronicled in history
Quicksilver
_____11.What is a seismograph?
  1. Something that measures the size of a building
  2. Something that gauges the power of a meteor
  3. Something that measures the size of an earthquake
  4. Something that plays a record
_____12.How did Melinda return the pieces of the meteor to the box?
  1. with a broom
  2. she used an electromagnet
  3. she gently blew them into the box
  4. she used a pot holder since they were hot
_____13.What was Qin’s underground army?
  1. Clay soldiers
  2. Men who never saw the light of day
  3. Peasants who presented Qin with gifts
  4. Crossbow warriors
_____14.Why did the ball roll out from under the throne when Tilly hit it with the orb?
  1. Magnetism
  2. A meteor
  3. Momentum
  4. Quicksilver
_____15.What masked the smell of Qin’s dead body as it was traveled to the royal city?
  1. fish
  2. lotus blossoms
  3. it was covered in sand
  4. clay
Foo Fighters
_____16.What is Ur of Antiquity?
  1. a game
  2. a ziggurat
  3. a Sumerian farmer
  4. a form of writing
_____17.How did Tilly mark the spot in the water where the portal was located?
  1. with a plow she found beside the floodwater
  2. with clothes filled with air
  3. with a Cuneiform stone
  4. she asked the Foo Fighters to circle overhead
_____18.How did Bruno help the farmers?
  1. He made the first plow
  2. He showed them how to irrigate their crops
  3. He pretended that he could not speak
  4. He attached a funnel to their plow
_____19.Who named the Foo Fighters
  1. Tilly
  2. The Anunnaki
  3. World War II pilots
  4. Ancient Sumerians
_____20.How did Tilly use the fire extinguisher to escape?
  1. She put out a fire in the alley
  2. She used it to signal the Foo Fighters
  3. She released CO2 that propelled her across electrical wires
  4. She cooled the electrical wires so they wouldn’t catch on fire


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