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August 24, 2016 : Find Your Park!

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. Write the name of a national park you would like to visit in the center of a piece of paper. Around the name, paste newspaper pictures of items you would take with you on that trip.

2. After you’ve identified newspaper pictures of items to take on a trip to a national park, pick five people from the newspaper that you would like to go with you. You may select real people or comic strip characters. Explain your choices.

3. Use information from your newspaper to identify an area in your community that should be preserved and protected. Write a pretend letter to the editor of the newspaper explaining why the area should be saved.

4. Why are these important in the history of the national parks: (a) Yosemite, (b) President Obama, (c) Every Kid in a Park and (d) President Woodrow Wilson?

5. Use the Internet to research national parks. Find the park that is closest to where you live. Find a park in a state you would like to visit. Find a park that has historical significance. Create a newspaper ad for each park. Draw a picture for the park. Include facts and details that you think would attract people to the park. Share your ads with friends and family.

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 human and physical characteristics of places. (Geography: Places and Regions)

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

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