Nov. 10, 2010: Military Working Dogs

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Activities:

1. Design a trophy for "Best Military Dog." Draw your trophy. Write a sentence that goes on the base of the trophy.

2. Pretend you are going to adopt a military dog. On a piece of paper, paste newspaper words and pictures of things you will need for your new dog.

3. Paste your three favorite comic strips on a paper. Write about how you would add a working dog to the stories in each strip.

4. How are these important to military dogs: (a) booties, (b) Lackland Air Force base,
(c) President Clinton, and (d) toys.

5. Write a story about a military dog doing his job.

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 interactions of animals and their environments. (Science: Life Science)
  
  

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