September 28, 2016 : Washed Ashore

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 picture of an animal sculpture made of recycled items. Label the recycled items in your sculpture.

2. In the newspaper, circle all the pictures of items than can be recycled. Then separate them into three lists: paper/wo od products, plastics, metals. Which group had the most items?

3. Cut out newspaper pictures of five different things that can be recycled. Paste them on a piece of paper. Next to each picture, write the number that shows how many times you use that item in one week. Then write a sentence telling what you could do to use it less.

4. How are these important to people in the Washed Ashore movement: (a) gyres, (b) sculptures, (c) sea animals and (d) reusable containers?

5. Examine your own community. What does your community already do to recycle items? What more could it do? Write a paragraph describing how you could help your community do even more for recycling.

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 use of science and technology in local challenges . (Science: Personal and Social Perspectives)

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