Sept. 8, 2010: Learn Your MDGs

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. Design a flag for the United Nations that shows three of the MDG goals.

2. Draw a backpack. On it paste newspaper words and pictures of school supplies that would help children everywhere.

3. Divide a circle into three parts. Paste newspaper words and pictures in the three sections: healthy food, medical supplies, and technology.

4. How have American children helped to (a) fight hunger, (b) fight malaria, (c) guarantee safe water, and (d) raise money for others?

5. Use the Internet to research and write about one of the U.N. goals.

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:

• Students understand the search for community, stability and peace in an interdependent world. (History)
• Students understand how physical, social and emotional environments influence personal health. (Health)
  
  

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