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March 04, 2015 : Happy Birthday, NACA!

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. In your newspaper, circle pictures/words for aircraft and spacecraft. Write the words in order, showing the slowest to the fastest vehicle.

2. Find five people in the newspaper whose knowledge and skills would be useful to NASA. Explain your choices.

3. Create a notebook with newspaper stories about flying and space travel. Write several sentences for each story explaining why it is important.

4. How are these important to NACA and NASA: (a) Langley Research Center, (b) wind tunnels, (c) Project Mercury and (d) sharing knowledge?

5. Research the development of air and space travel. Write a short piece about how changes in air and space travel have changed our everyday lives.

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 science and technology. (Science: Science and Technology)

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

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