Oct. 20, 2010: Discover the Great Lakes

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. Create a poster showing people sailing on a Great Lake. Paste newspaper words that tell about the Great Lakes on your poster.

2. Collect news stories that take place in the Great Lakes area. Which stories talk about a Great Lake?

3. Find the temperature for a city near each of the Great Lakes on today's newspaper weather map. Where is it coldest? Warmest?

4. How did these contribute to the Great Lakes: (a) glaciers, (b) locks, (c) copper, and (d) French explorers?

5. Use the Internet to learn about the Great Lakes area. Design a tourism brochure inviting people to visit the Great Lakes.

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 human and physical characteristics of places. (Geography: Places and Regions)
  
  

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