Oct. 4, 2006: Discover Explorers
The Mini Page is a syndicated,
four-page tabloid written for young children found each Wednesday in the
Rocky Mountain News. This issue of The Mini Page is available through
the eEdition Archive to registered eEdition subscribers. Click here to learn about subscribing to the eEdition at no cost to you (for Colorado teachers).
Activities:
1. Draw a picture of yourself
exploring some exciting location. Write several sentences telling about
your adventure.
2. Look at the weather map
in your newspaper. Select three places you would like to explore. Find
the weather or the temperature in those places today. Which place will
be the warmest? Which will be the coldest?
3. What would you take with
you on a trip to explore a rain forest in South America? Find newspaper
words and pictures for items you would take with you on your trip. Cut
them out and paste them on a piece of paper. All of your items must fit
inside one large suitcase.
4. Which explorers in today¹s
Mini Page (a) discovered land in the Americas, (b) explored or visited
the North or South poles, (c) studied science as a young person, and (d)
explored more than one part of the world?
5. Use resource books and the
Internet to learn more about one of the explorers in The Mini Page. Use
these questions to guide your research:
- When did the individual live?
- How did the individual become involved with exploration?
- What education or training did the individual receive?
- How were the individual's explorations financed?
- What new discoveries did the individual find?
Use your research to write a character profile on your explorer.
This week's standards:
- Students use biographies and stories to understand the individuals who are honored by the nation. (Social Studies: History)
- Students describe the geographic context that has influenced people and events in the past. (Geography)
- Students understand how historical events, people, places and situations contribute to our understanding of the past. (Social Studies: Time, Continuity and Change)
(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)
