Nov. 24, 2010: Spicing Up Your Feast

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. Click here to learn about subscribing to the eEdition at no cost to you (for Colorado teachers).

Activities:

1. Paste newspaper words for herbs and spices on a "Spice It Up" poster. Use grocery ads and recipes.

2. Pick five herbs/spices from today¹s Mini Page. Ask family members to name foods that use each herb/spice.

3. With a friend, race through the newspaper and circle herbs/spices used in non-food ways < such as for colors or names.

4. Use the newspaper weather map, or a world map, and put stars on all the different countries named in The Mini Page where herbs/spices are grown.

5. Research another herb/spice your family uses. Where is it grown? How is it collected? How is it used? Write a paragraph about your herb/spice.

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 standards:

• Compare the impact of psychological, cultural and social influences on food choices and other nutritional practices. (Family and Consumer Sciences: Nutrition and Wellness)
• Conduct sensory evaluations of food products. (Family and Consumer Sciences: Food Science, Dietetics and Nutrition)
  

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