July 08, 2015 : Off to the Museum

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. Draw a museum for your favorite collections. Paste newspaper words that identify what would be in the museum around the picture.

2. Write the names of five comic strip characters on a piece of paper. What kind of museum would each character like?

3. In your newspaper, circle words or pictures of items that could be in an art, history or science museum.

4. How are these important to museums: (a) James Smithson, (b) Vatican, (c) Congress and (d) National Zoo?

5. Create your own “Day of History” museum. Paste newspaper stories on a plan of your museum.

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 that museums present t heir educational resources with clarity, accuracy and relevance to a wide audience. (Museum Educational Principles and Standards

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