July 22, 2014 : Styles of Architecture

The Mini Page is a syndicated, four-page tabloid written for young children found each Wednesday in The Denver Post. This issue of The Mini Page is available through the eEdition Archive to registered eEdition subscribers

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Activities:

1. Use architectural elements from The Mini Page to design a building. Write a paragraph describing your building and explaining how people use it.

2. Collect newspaper pictures of different kinds of buildings. Mark the architectural elements you like in each building.

3. In your newspaper, circle items you would use to decorate the inside of a house.

4. How are these important in architecture: (a) flying buttresses, (b) Dark Ages, (c) columns and (d) minarets?

5. Look in the real estate section of your newspaper for the sale of a large house. List the architectural elements that are described. Explain why you would like this house.

Mini Page activities meet many state and national educational standards. Each week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page content and offer activities that will help your students reach them.

This week's standard:
Students understand the physical and human characteristics of places. (Geography: Places and Regions)

(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)