Obscure question about WDW trivia

[SewIn2Disney]

Hi, I'm student teaching right now in a third grade classroom. The kids all know that I love Disney, and every morning they try to stump me with Disney trivia. So far it's been easy (Hey...they're only 9!), until they went home and started conspiring against me :lol:

Their questions have been getting harder, but it wasn't until yesterday that I was unable to answer their insane questions.

I want to be able to answer them next week, and I've checked my books, looked online, but I can't find the answers. So I'm turing to all of you. If you can help me out with a few questions, that would be great! :kiss:

1. How many attractions all together in WDW?
2. How many bathrooms in WDW (just in the 4 parks, and only public bathrooms, not backstage or anything.
3. How many resturants in the four parks? All together including the resorts?
4. And how many stores in the four parks? And all together including the resorts and DTD? (Not kiosks, or carts though, actual stores inside of buildings)

I think their parent's are helping them with the questions....but I'm determined to answer them!

Thank you sooooooo much for your help! :wave:

 

[Tomorrowland0]

I counted 15+17+19+32 attractions in the four parks.

As for the restaurants, counting only sit-down restaurants, there are 24 in the parks, 30 in the resorts, and 9 in DTD.

Have no clue about the bathrooms, though.

Hope this helps!

 

[Kingdom Konsultant]

I want to be able to answer them next week, and I've checked my books, looked online, but I can't find the answers. So I'm turing to all of you. If you can help me out with a few questions, that would be great! :kiss:

1. How many attractions all together in WDW? 35 in the MK,39 in EPCOT, 19 in MGM and 21 in AK.
2. How many bathrooms in WDW (just in the 4 parks, and only public bathrooms, not backstage or anything. I can't help you here
3. How many resturants in the four parks? 7 in AK, 11 in MGM, 24 in Epcot and 14 in the MK. All together including the resorts? 114
4. And how many stores in the four parks? 123 And all together including the resorts and DTD? 123 plus 29 for DTD, PI and West side (Not kiosks, or carts though, actual stores inside of buildings)

Pam

 

[1disneydood]

lol They have more stores than attractions.

 

[Yukinon]

I will try and get back to you on the bathroom one... goodness it seems we can't go more than a few feet without someone in our clan having to use one... and I can tell you where my personal favorite bathrooms are... I'm going to work on this and try and get back to ya!

BTW, good luck with your student teaching! I am a teacher as well and I had a very difficult student teaching placement - it seems you are in a good place with great kids! I hope you are having a good time! And when you get days when you want to pull all your hair out - remember that student teaching is only temporary - the real fun begins when you have your OWN classroom

 

[Kadee]

...BTW, good luck with your student teaching! I am a teacher as well and I had a very difficult student teaching placement - it seems you are in a good place with great kids! I hope you are having a good time! And when you get days when you want to pull all your hair out - remember that student teaching is only temporary - the real fun begins when you have your OWN classroom

OH!!! ME TOO!!!! My ST placement was HORRIBLE! The old hag was the meanest teacher in the school, and I felt like I was thrown to the wolves. She never helped me at all!!!!!!! But it does get better when you are in your own classroom!

For the bathroom question, try to get someone with current park maps....the bathrooms are listed on them.

 

[Vernonpush]

According to the guidemaps I have, there are 11 public rest rooms in the Studios, 14 in MK, 14 in AK, and Epcot has 16. But those don't include ones I know are there but aren't listed on the maps, like in the Land Pavilion, the ones shared by 50's Primetime and Hollywood & Vine or Sci-fi dine-in/ ABC commissary. Come to think of it I think all sitdown restaurants have rest rooms. I've used the restrooms in Mexico, Norway, China, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Morocco. Yes, I'm the one with the weak bladder.

 

[Yukinon]

According to the guidemaps I have, there are 11 public rest rooms in the Studios, 14 in MK, 14 in AK, and Epcot has 16. But those don't include ones I know are there but aren't listed on the maps, like in the Land Pavilion, the ones shared by 50's Primetime and Hollywood & Vine or Sci-fi dine-in/ ABC commissary. Come to think of it I think all sitdown restaurants have rest rooms. I've used the restrooms in Mexico, Norway, China, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Morocco. Yes, I'm the one with the weak bladder.

Those were the numbers I came up with too, again, just counting on the guidemaps... and I too thought of the ones that aren't really listed such as the one in Tony's Restaurant in MK (we happen to use that one frequently if we can't make it to City Hall) and again each country in Epcot just about has one - our favorite we always have to go to several times is Morocco! And that one that's on the left side of Spaceship Earth is a nice one. Oh and I was thinking of the one in the TTC and there are 2 just outside of Epcot by the parking lots... wow there are a lot of bathrooms

 

[Yukinon]

OH!!! ME TOO!!!! My ST placement was HORRIBLE! The old hag was the meanest teacher in the school, and I felt like I was thrown to the wolves. She never helped me at all!!!!!!! But it does get better when you are in your own classroom!

For the bathroom question, try to get someone with current park maps....the bathrooms are listed on them.

My student teaching for the first half was 4th,5th, and 6th grade math and science :hurl: I have always been terrible in those subjects! The teacher I was with was a teacher I had in elementary school and she treated me like I was still like 12 years old... and the kids were just awful! There was no respect for the teacher or for me and was so bad at times that I had to seek counseling. No lie, I had to go to therapy from student teaching.

The second half was better, 2nd grade in a different school, the kids were fun and the teacher was "invisable" - i.e. she was always out of the room and never provided me any support whatsoever, but I just made my own fun then!

Today I am a preschool teacher and I love it! I have found my niche and it truly is great! Student teaching was the absolute worst time of my life but I am better today for it

 

[SewIn2Disney]

Thank you so much for all of your help everyone! (DUH...I never thought to look on a map!!!)
Maybe I'll email Disney about the bathroom question. I thought I remembered reading it somewhere online, but I just can't find it now.

And for student teaching....it was a rough start, but now I'm lovin' it! I only have 14 days left, and yeah the kids have no respect most of the time, but I deal and make the best of it. It's just hard because I have almost 30 kids in the class.....way too overcrowded to do something with.
In my last placement (I have to do three all together, 60 hours, 90 hours and student teaching), the teacher was just as obsessed with Disney as I was, it was great!!! I made a Monorail 'Word wall" for the kids, with each word family riding a different monorail. It's still hanging up in the room. Her room was covered with Disney stuff.....I loved it!

My word wall: http://community.webshots.com/mypho...4&photoID=1508740890077976460&security=kYBwaB

Thanks again for all the answers to my questions!

 

[Yukinon]

Thank you so much for all of your help everyone! (DUH...I never thought to look on a map!!!)
Maybe I'll email Disney about the bathroom question. I thought I remembered reading it somewhere online, but I just can't find it now.

And for student teaching....it was a rough start, but now I'm lovin' it! I only have 14 days left, and yeah the kids have no respect most of the time, but I deal and make the best of it. It's just hard because I have almost 30 kids in the class.....way too overcrowded to do something with.
In my last placement (I have to do three all together, 60 hours, 90 hours and student teaching), the teacher was just as obsessed with Disney as I was, it was great!!! I made a Monorail 'Word wall" for the kids, with each word family riding a different monorail. It's still hanging up in the room. Her room was covered with Disney stuff.....I loved it!

My word wall: http://community.webshots.com/myphotos?action=showPhoto&albumID=445735624&photoID=1508740890077976460&security=kYBwaB

Thanks again for all the answers to my questions!

OMG that WordWall is sooooo cute! If I had older kids I would so steal your idea!! Do you know that even in preschool they want us to have a WordWall? I'm just trying to keep them from peeing on themselves and to stop touching each other and maybe to learn to write their first names if I'm lucky... and they want them to learn a WordWall?? Anyhow, my rant of the day is over... although once we get to learning the letter Mm I plan on something with a certain mouse.... hmmmm....

 

[Victoria]

Thank you so much for all of your help everyone! (DUH...I never thought to look on a map!!!)
Maybe I'll email Disney about the bathroom question. I thought I remembered reading it somewhere online, but I just can't find it now.

And for student teaching....it was a rough start, but now I'm lovin' it! I only have 14 days left, and yeah the kids have no respect most of the time, but I deal and make the best of it. It's just hard because I have almost 30 kids in the class.....way too overcrowded to do something with.
In my last placement (I have to do three all together, 60 hours, 90 hours and student teaching), the teacher was just as obsessed with Disney as I was, it was great!!! I made a Monorail 'Word wall" for the kids, with each word family riding a different monorail. It's still hanging up in the room. Her room was covered with Disney stuff.....I loved it!

My word wall: http://community.webshots.com/myphotos?action=showPhoto&albumID=445735624&photoID=1508740890077976460&security=kYBwaB

Thanks again for all the answers to my questions!

I absolutely LOVE this WordWall idea. The kids in my special ed class (chronological 3rd and 4th graders) all know I love Disney too and are always asking me random questions about it. I usually can answer their questions but if i don't know it I will make up something...they are special ed and arent patient enough to wait for me to look up the answer.

I am not working right now (doing the school full time thing) but I am going to begin my student teaching in the classroom that I worked in before as a TA. I can't wait. I am so excited to be able to take over the class. I am hoping it works out well and the class doesn't turn on me:lookaroun.

Do you mind if I poach your WordWall idea? It would be perfect because I can turn the workings of a monorail into a Science lesson while having enough trains to work with since there are 10 kids in the class....who work on Reading levels ranging from Kindergarten to 5th grade :hammer:

Now all I have to do is come up with some form of Math thing that covers everything from counting 1-100 to long division. It is gonna be a long year...:lookaroun Gotta love Spec Ed.

 

[Victoria]

OMG that WordWall is sooooo cute! If I had older kids I would so steal your idea!! Do you know that even in preschool they want us to have a WordWall? I'm just trying to keep them from peeing on themselves and to stop touching each other and maybe to learn to write their first names if I'm lucky... and they want them to learn a WordWall?? Anyhow, my rant of the day is over... although once we get to learning the letter Mm I plan on something with a certain mouse.... hmmmm....

A WordWall for preschool? Who are they kidding? How about a LetterWall maybe? Thats more their speed...if that...lol. Preschool is definetly all about the bodily fluid control. Heck, even at the 3rd and 4th grade level it is still about that sometimes. (granted they are special ed, but still....)

Definetly play up the letters that correspond with Disney characters. I did Ddonald, Ggoofy, Ttigger, Ppooh, Eeyore, Nnemo, and Iincredibles. I even crossed company lines and did Sspongebob and Bbatman. When I did Mm with my lowest group( only 3 kids), I hid Mickey heads with letters on them all over the room. Once they found the Mickeys they had to tell me if the Mickey had a letter Mm on it or not. If they correctly told me it had an Mm they got Mickey pretzels. It was a big hit.

 

[Yukinon]

A WordWall for preschool? Who are they kidding? How about a LetterWall maybe? Thats more their speed...if that...lol. Preschool is definetly all about the bodily fluid control. Heck, even at the 3rd and 4th grade level it is still about that sometimes. (granted they are special ed, but still....)

Definetly play up the letters that correspond with Disney characters. I did Ddonald, Ggoofy, Ttigger, Ppooh, Eeyore, Nnemo, and Iincredibles. I even crossed company lines and did Sspongebob and Bbatman. When I did Mm with my lowest group( only 3 kids), I hid Mickey heads with letters on them all over the room. Once they found the Mickeys they had to tell me if the Mickey had a letter Mm on it or not. If they correctly told me it had an Mm they got Mickey pretzels. It was a big hit.

I like that idea that is so cute! And I would use the different Disney characters on my WordWall but my supervisor would take it down for sure - our program is about to be audited next month from National and our supervisors are being extremely strict on us. Aside from having a WordWall, and planning daily activities for this WordWall, they want us to do Math and Science and Literacy lessons daily too! :hammer: Dont' they realize what we go through every day just in going to the bathroom 25 times in the 5 hours the kiddos are at school??? I have this one chewing his clothes, and that one eating his boogers, and this one pulling up her skirts, and the other one climbing up the shelves and jumping off... and this is just in the first 10 minutes of the day!!

And I was looking ahead on what they want us to be doing within the next couple weeks of the math program... they want these 3-yr-old babies to tell that a penny is one cent, a nickel is 5 cents and a dime is 10 cents - then be able to count them! I'm like, the kids are just gonna say "thats my money" and be done with the lesson, they will not understand and its ridiculous to expect them to understand these thing! I really hope National backs up us teachers and reams out the management at least on this one! :hammer:

 

[Victoria]

I like that idea that is so cute! And I would use the different Disney characters on my WordWall but my supervisor would take it down for sure - our program is about to be audited next month from National and our supervisors are being extremely strict on us. Aside from having a WordWall, and planning daily activities for this WordWall, they want us to do Math and Science and Literacy lessons daily too! :hammer: Dont' they realize what we go through every day just in going to the bathroom 25 times in the 5 hours the kiddos are at school??? I have this one chewing his clothes, and that one eating his boogers, and this one pulling up her skirts, and the other one climbing up the shelves and jumping off... and this is just in the first 10 minutes of the day!!

And I was looking ahead on what they want us to be doing within the next couple weeks of the math program... they want these 3-yr-old babies to tell that a penny is one cent, a nickel is 5 cents and a dime is 10 cents - then be able to count them! I'm like, the kids are just gonna say "thats my money" and be done with the lesson, they will not understand and its ridiculous to expect them to understand these thing! I really hope National backs up us teachers and reams out the management at least on this one! :hammer:

WHAT!?!?!?! I have 4th graders who can't count by 5s and 10s and 2nd graders who have no clue that a dime is 10 cents. Math for them should be more like counting how many boogers they ate that day. Science? I guess there are always the seasons, weather, and simple machines. Literacy? They are 3 and 4! THey arent supposed to be literate! That is why they are in preschool. I guess you can always read them a story and hope for the best. Do you team teach or are you by yourself?

 

[SewIn2Disney]

Do you mind if I poach your WordWall idea? It would be perfect because I can turn the workings of a monorail into a Science lesson while having enough trains to work with since there are 10 kids in the class....who work on Reading levels ranging from Kindergarten to 5th grade :hammer:

Now all I have to do is come up with some form of Math thing that covers everything from counting 1-100 to long division. It is gonna be a long year...:lookaroun Gotta love Spec Ed.

I have no idea on how to do multiple quotes in the same posting, so you're going to get a few posts from me in a row. Sorry in advance!

Go ahead and take the word wall thing! Teachers are all about sharing! I drew the monorails and cut them out. The characters are clip art that I copy and pasted from disneyclipart.com, then I cut the bottoms off so it looked like they were riding inside the monorail. Oh, and don't forget the little retro logo on the front train! That was also from the clip art website.

As far as the counting to 100. In our class, they started from day one, counting up to the 100th day of school. Each day a new number was added to the strip that ran the length of the room. Every so often, we look for patterns in numbers. i.e., put a red circle around numbers that count by 5, a blue line under even numbers, a green triangle around multiples of 10, etc. Then of course on the 100th day, there is the 100th day of school party and activities. We haven't started long division, so I can't help you there!

 

[SewIn2Disney]

And I was looking ahead on what they want us to be doing within the next couple weeks of the math program... they want these 3-yr-old babies to tell that a penny is one cent, a nickel is 5 cents and a dime is 10 cents - then be able to count them! I'm like, the kids are just gonna say "thats my money" and be done with the lesson, they will not understand and its ridiculous to expect them to understand these thing! I really hope National backs up us teachers and reams out the management at least on this one! :hammer:

Good grief! Can a three year old even pronounce penny nickel and dime? I don't think my 3rd graders would be able to add them proficently.

Maybe you could use food to teach them this? A M&M could represent a penny, a cookie for a nickel, and maybe a pretzel for a dime (as long as it is smaller then the cookie!). I find kids always relate when it is food they're using! Although, I don't know if kids this age would get the analogy.

 

[SewIn2Disney]

WHAT!?!?!?! Math for them should be more like counting how many boogers they ate that day. Science? Literacy? QUOTE]

Well if Math is counting boogers, then Science can be what boogers are made up of.....and Literacy? Maybe write a story "The Day my Booger Came to Life"

 

[SewIn2Disney]

A town near me, Waretown NJ, I think, did a unit last year all about Disney. They pretended they were driving to Disney, and they combined all subjects into this awesome unit. They started by learning NJ history (since that's where they started their journey), read stories about travel and about NJ, then as they went down the coast, they combined history of certain areas, math to find distances, miles per hour, map skills, writing to write letters to chambers of commerce, etc. It really was awesome, and when the unit was over they had a huge disney party. My paper did a bunch of articles on it, and I saved them all. I hope to use it someday. Just and idea for you guys to adapt from!

 

[bjlc57]

at least you have a job.....

I am located on the Wisconsin / Minnesota border. I have been looking for a teaching job for four years and have yet to get hired. I went back to school as a 40 year old non-traditional. I teach all social studies classes, including economics, and I still have not gotten hired. I am limited in moving because my wife has an excellent job at the University here in town. It has been a real struggle to stay afloat and upbeat about my situation. AND because I have not gotten hired, we don't have the cash to return to WDW. ( which I am dying to do....)

So don't complain about your co-op teacher, if they get you a job.. for me its been four years of hard knocks...