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July 17, 2018 : What’s Up in Space?

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

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Activities:

1. Draw a “Happy Birthday NASA” birthday cake. Decorate the cake with newspaper pictures that show space - related objects and people.

2. Talk to at least two friends and two adults. Ask them why they think NASA is important. Write their answers down. What answers were suggested by two or more people.

3. Select a planet in the solar system. Read about the planet. Now write a description of the planet. Then write three questions you would like to have answered about the planet if NASA sent a mission there.

4. Which mission or equipment: (a) sends scientists to live in space, (b) will fly close to the sun, (c) will carry food and equipment to the space station, and (d) will study Mars?

5. Write a letter to an early scientist in a space - related program , such as Robert Goddard, Wernher von Braun or Carl Sagan. You may want to do some internet research about the scientist you choose. In your letter, discuss how the space program has grown over the past 60 years.

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 science and technology. (Science: Science and Technology)

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

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