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Weekly Mini Pages
Mini Page activities meet many state and national educational standards. Each week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page's content and offer activities that will help your students reach them.
Summer Safety Report Card -- Issue 27 -- July 3-9, 2010
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This week's standards:
Students understand that security is a basic need of humans, including following safety rules for home and school, avoiding injury, and knowing where to go for help. (Science: Personal Health)
Activities:
1. Draw a picture of yourself doing your favorite summer activity. Write a sentence about how to be safe doing that activity.
2. Circle newspaper words and pictures for things that keep you safe outdoors.
3. Find a news story about a place you would like to go. Now list three things you could do to be safe at that place.
4. How are these things important for your safety: (a) a helmet,(b) sunscreen, (c) crosswalks, and (d) seat belts?
5. Write a short story about a safe summer adventure.
(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)
Playing Golf With Discs -- Issue 28 -- July 10-16, 2010
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This week's standards:
Students understand that physical activity provides opportunities for enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and social interaction. (Physical Education)
Activities:
1. Draw a picture of a large Frisbee on a paper. Paste newspaper words that describe disc sports around it.
2. Pretend you are in charge of a disc golf course. Circle newspaper items that you would need to keep the course in good shape.
3. Find three athletes who would be good at disc golf. Explain your choices.
4. How are these important to disc golf: (a) chains, (b) driver and (c) putter?
5. Design your own disc game. Write a paragraph describing the game - the playing field, how many people play and what the rules are.
(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)
Behold the Beautiful Beetle -- Issue 29 -- July 17-23, 2010
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This week's standards:
Students understand the characteristics and life cycles of organisms. (Science: Life Science)
Activities:
1. Draw a beetle on a piece of paper. Paste newspapers words that apply to beetles on your drawing.
2. In the newspaper, circle names of beetles or other insects. (Don't forget sports teams.)
3. Divide a paper into two columns. On one side, write useful things beetles do. On the other, write destructive things.
4. How are these related to beetles: (a) tropical areas, (b) wing covers, (c) ancient Egyptians, and (d) scientists?
5. Learn more about one of the beetles in today's Mini Page. Where is it found? What does it eat? How many are there? Write a paragraph about the beetle.
(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)
Mythological Animals -- Issue 30 -- July 24-30, 2010
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This week's standards:
Students understand how stories and artistic creations influence the behavior of people living in a particular culture. (Social Studies: Culture)
Activities:
1. Make a set of mythology trading cards. Draw a picture of a mythological creature on the front. Write about the creature on the back.
2. Use newspaper pictures of mythological creatures to make a poster. Look in ads for toys, the comics and entertainment sections.
3. Select a mythological creature to be a pet for five different people in the newspaper. Explain your choices.
4. Which mythological creatures (a) have wings, (b) are based on real animals, (c) live in water, and (d) are dangerous to people?
5. Design a mythological creature based on a real animal. Write a story about your creature.
(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)
An Ocean of Oil -- Issue 31 -- July 31-August 6, 2010
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This week's standards:
Students understand the characteristics of renewable, nonrenewable and flow resources. (Geography: Environment and Society)
Activities:
1. Draw a picture of people helping animals in the oil spill. Write a sentence about the animals.
2. Find three stories about renewable energy. Explain how they can help with our energy problems.
3. In a journal, collect news stories about the oil spill and the effects on wetlands and shores.
4. What has been used to (a) trap oil in the water, (b) break oil into small parts, (c) remove oil from the water, and (d) stop the oil from escaping from the well?
5. Use the Internet to learn how people have handled earlier oil spills.
(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)
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