September 21, 2016 : Give a Back a Break

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 large backpack on a piece of paper. Inside the backpack, paste newspaper words and pictures of items that you would have to carry in your backpack every day. Outside the backpack, paste words and pictures of items that you could store at home, school or in your locker. At the bottom of your picture, write the number of pounds your backpack could weigh (10 percent of your weight).

2. In the newspaper, find an ad that has a picture of a backpack. Label the parts of the backpack that would make it a good backpack. List any features the backpack should have but doesn’t.

3. In the newspaper, find three items that are not backpacks that you could use to carr y supplies to and from schoo l. They don’t have to be items you would want to use (like a wagon), but ones you could use. Be creative. Explain your choices.

4. How are these important to backpack safety: (a) waist or hip strap, (b) padded s traps, (c) lightweight material and (d) superhero picture on the outside.

5. Read The Mini Page information about using a backpack properly. Make a list of the good practices you do. Make another list of the suggestions you do not follow. Write a paragraph explaining how you will use your backpack correctly.

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:
Describe relationships between personal health behaviors and individual well - being. (Heath promotion and disease prevention)

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