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 you and some friends next to a river. Paste newspaper pictures of items you would like to have with you at the river on your picture.
2. Look in the sports section and ads in the newspaper for different ways people can travel on rivers. Circle all the ways you find. Which would you like to use on the river?
3. Copy the River Systems web on a piece of paper. At the ends of each arrow on the web, paste newspaper words or pictures that show that part of the system. For example, one arrow leads to "food source.” Find newspaper words or pictures of foods you might find in the river and paste them on your web.
4. Why are rivers important to these: (a) tourism, (b) crops, (c) wildlife and (d) electricity?
5. Make a coloring book about rivers for a preschooler. Draw large, simple figures. Write a simple sentence a bout the picture on each page. Share your coloring book with a young friend.
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 characteris
tics of renewable, nonrenewable
and
flow resources. (Geography: Environment and Society)
(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)