Nov. 11, 2009: Helping Wounded Warriors

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Activities:

1. Use newspaper words and pictures to make a "welcome home" card for a service person.

2. Find a pet in the classified ads that would be a good companion for a returning service person. Draw a picture of the pet with a service person.

3. Circle three things in the newspaper that make you feel better when you are unhappy.

4. How do each of these help people who need artificial body parts: (a) digital pictures, (b) different versions of a leg, and (c) microchips?

5. Write an adventure story about a person whose artificial body part gives the person superpowers. Explain your choices.

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 how physical, social and emotional environments influence personal health. (Health: Health promotion and disease)
  
  (standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)