From a Compass to a Patent Desk: teacher key

Albert Einstein, grade 7 edition, written for 7th grade. A compass needle, a job examining inventions and big ideas from 1905: follow Einstein from his boyhood to Princeton.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What did Einstein's father show him when he was four or five?
   • A violin
   • A compass (answer)
   • A telescope
2. Where did Einstein work after he could not find a teaching job?
   • At the patent office (answer)
   • At a violin school
   • At the Cantonal School
3. How many science articles did Einstein publish in 1905 while he worked at the patent office?
   • Two
   • Four (answer)
   • Ten
4. What did Einstein propose to explain the photoelectric effect?
   • That light comes in small packets of energy called quanta (answer)
   • That time stops
   • That the compass needle floats
5. What was still considered questionable when Einstein won the 1921 prize?
   • His ideas on relativity (answer)
   • His discovery of the compass
   • His job at the patent office

Words

• quanta: energy packets