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. Divide a piece of paper into three columns. In each column paste newspaper words that are space-related: No. 1: names of food; No. 2: sports teams; No. 3: toys and other items.
2. Make a list of school subjects that scientists who want to work in space-related fields must study.
3. Collect stories about NASA. Put stories about planets and stars together. Put stories about traveling in space together.
4. How are these important to Hubble watchers: (a) exoplanets, (b) galaxy M87, (c) the Eagle Nebula, and (d) the Big Bang theory?
5. Ask your friends about being space scientists. What would they study? Who would like to travel in space?
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:
Engineers improve existing technologies or develop new ones. (Engineering Design)
(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)