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.
July 1, 2009 -- -- Safe Fun With Fireworks
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.
Activities:
1. Make a poster inviting people to a fireworks display in your neighborhood. Use newspaper words that describe your event and patriotic pictures from the newspaper to decorate your poster.
2. Look at the pictures of the fireworks at the inauguration of Grover Cleveland and the second inauguration of George W. Bush in today's Mini Page. How do the fireworks look different? Which fireworks look the most exciting? Why do you think there is a difference in the fireworks at the two different inaugurations?
3. Look in the community calendar section of your newspaper to find places where you can see fireworks over the July 4th holiday. How many places are there? Which location will probably have the biggest show? Which location is closest to where you live?
4. Use the fireworks safety page in today's Mini Page to talk about safety with your family members and friends. Put a check mark if they say they follow the safety rule and a zero if they say they do not. Share the list with them so they know all the good safety rules.
5. There are many words related to fireworks that have different meanings in other settings. Use the Mini Page and your own knowledge or a dictionary to give two different meanings for each of these words: (a) shell, (b) battery, (c) mortar, (d) magazine, (e) salute, and (f) break. Write several sentences using the fireworks words to describe fireworks. See if family members and friends can understand the sentences.
- Students understand people and events honored in commemorative holidays. (History)
- Students understand science and technology. (Science: Science and Technology)
- Students compare behaviors that are safe to those that are risky or harmful. (Health: Reducing Health Risks)
(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)