Common Core State StandardRH.CCS.7 Grades 6-12: Students are asked to locate a country or geographical area on a map, connecting information with a specific location. Then, students answer a series of quiz questions based on a current news event happening in that location. Students must combine their prior knowledge with information presented in the question to determine the correct answers.

First question (of five)

Q: A driver deliberately plowed his white Ryder rental van into a lunch-hour crowd in Toronto, Ontario, last week, killing 10 people and injuring 15 along a roughly mile-long stretch of sidewalk, police said. Where is Ontario?