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Weekly Mini Pages
Mini Page activities meet many state and national educational standards. Each week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page's content and offer activities that will help your students reach them.

Celebrity for a Day -- Issue 4 -- Jan. 28-Feb. 3, 2012

Students understand the characteristics of animals. (Life Science)

Activities:

1. Divide a piece of paper into two columns. On one side, paste newspaper pictures or words of items you would use if there were six more weeks of winter. On the other side, paste pictures/words of things you would use if spring came.

2. In the newspaper, circle words or pictures of animals that hibernate.

3. Ask family members and friends for stories they have heard about predicting weather. Make a list of their ideas.

4. Why are these important to the groundhog: (a) burrows, (b) claws, (c) berries and (d) Punxsutawney?

5. Create a new weather legend. Write a story about how an animal predicts a weather event.

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

Seeking New Worlds -- Issue 5 -- Feb. 4-10, 2012

Students understand changes in the Earth and sky. (Science: Earth and Space Science)

Activities:

1. Use newspaper words and pictures to make a poster showing things you might find in space.

2. In your newspaper, circle words/pictures of items that help scientists do their job.

3. Make up names for seven new planets, using the names of people in the newspaper. Explain why you chose those people.

4. Why are these important to scientists: (a) exoplanets, (b) Goldilocks Zone, (c) rocky planets and (d) color spectrum?

5. Write a short science fiction story about you and your friends exploring a rocky planet in the Goldilocks Zone.

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