Veins across the world
light from the kite in the storm
Earth’s nervous system
– Sci-ku by Emma Hartley, aged 17
Everyone should be a budding scientist. Our students should be curious, experiment, explore, and conduct research in their everyday lives. One reason why many students feel science is beyond them or overwhelming is because they don’t make an emotional connection to the science. In celebration of National Poetry month, I have created a visual science poetry calendar to inspire students to write science poems. I did this with Google Calendar and Thinglink. Feel free to make a copy of my digital calendar shown below and edit as you wish for any subject. You can add your own title and image. Add homework challenges, writing prompts, lesson starters, or resources for students to explore.
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Create a Digital Calendar
To create your own interactive digital calendar:
- Go to my Google Calendar Template and make a copy. Below, see tabs for May to December 2016. Edit the calendar as you need.
- Take a screenshot of the calendar so it is a jpg or png image.
- Upload this image to ThingLink.
- Add your prompts, challenges, missions, experiments, readings, or sites to explore.
Challenge: Create your own digital calendar to inspire students to explore your topic in meaningful ways.
Science and Poetry Links
- Poetry That Moves– 3 animated poetry videos by students
- Science Poems– site full of examples for children
- Watchers of the Moon– poetry and physics in the nineteenth century
- Sci-ku– an explanation how to create a science haiku with student examples
- @ScienceHaiku– Twitter account setup for a 7th grade class with links to science news
- SciKu– art and haikus visualizing various scientists’ research.
- Haikus of Science– how one teacher gets his students to write haikus related to science diagrams
- Science Poetry Slams– an article with information on how to set one up
- SciFaiku– science fiction haikus
Bookmarks
Science, by shellyterrell
If you enjoyed these ideas, you may want to get your copy of The 30 Goals for Teachers or my $5.99 ebook, Learning to Go, which has digital/mobile activities for any device and editable/printable handouts and rubrics.
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