The Mini Page — 2007 Activities
HURRAY FOR RIVERS
Issue 26
June 23-29
This week's standards:
- Students understand properties of Earth materials. (Earth and Space
Science)
- Students understand changes in the environment. (Earth and Space Science)
Activities:
1. Collect pictures and words from your newspaper that show equipment you could use to have fun on a boat trip down a river. Create a river collage.
2. Conduct a survey among your family and friends to find out what they know about rivers.
Ask each person to (a) name rivers in the state or the country, (b) give three ways rivers make our lives better, and (c) name three things that threaten rivers. Which answers matched what you learned from today's Mini Page?
3. Collect news stories about waterways in your area. Divide the stories into three categories:
stories about recreational uses of the waterways, problems related to the waterways and commercial uses of the waterways. Share your stories with a classmate. What have you learned about local waterways?
4. What role do rivers play in (a) providing fresh drinking water, (b) providing energy, (c) providing transportation, and (d) changing the physical environment?
5. Use resource books and the Internet to learn more about rivers in your state. What major
river(s) are there? Select one river to investigate. Use these questions to guide your research:
What is the name of the river? Where did it get its name? Where are its headwaters? Where does the river end? What is its width in different parts of your state? Its length? How is the river used? Write a paragraph discussing your river.
Standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
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