The San Francisco Chronicle is sponsoring a spelling bee, and encourages kids to prepare by taking its practice tests. Practice test #1 is on ‘Chemistry Words’, and includes this example for the word ‘disproportionate’ from the pages of the Chronicle:
Israel came under heavy international criticism for the Gaza offensive. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and other questioned whether it had been a disproportionate response to the use of crude Qassam rockets by Palestinian militants.
BlueStarPR picked up on this, and note:
This fun quiz (printed on page 2 of the Business section in today’s San Francisco Chronicle, 12/07/04) is also being distributed to classrooms free of charge!… The Speeling Bee feature was developed by www.kidscoop.com Their work appears in more than 200 newspapers, so expect to see this quiz in your local newspaper, too!
See the full practice test/poster here.
Would ‘disproportionate’ be on your top-ten list of essential chemistry words?!
