This is an integration of science leaf observations with musical composition for early elementary students.
Summary: Students make observations and write poetry about nature, including clouds and weather. Student Learning Outcomes: Students make observations of clouds and weather Students describe the appearance of different cloud types and weather events through poetry. Students explore different types of poetry and write poems about nature, including clouds and weather. Lesson format: Class presentation and discussion, poetry activity, cloud identification.
Drawing in part from their own interests and ideas, students write about science within a broad cultural context. Students employ a broad repertoire of literary tools, such as narrative, scene-setting, and attention to larger issues of structure. Students study the work of other science writers, but subject's focus is less critical and analytical than synthetical--on creating works of substance, grace, and flow that have science and technology as their subjects.
" The science essay uses science to think about the human condition; it uses humanistic thinking to reflect on the possibilities and limits of science and technology. In this class we read and practice writing science essays of varied lengths and purposes. We will read a wide variety of science essays, ranging across disciplines, both to learn more about this genre and to inspire your own writing. This semester's reading centers on "The Dark Side," with essays ranging from Alan Lightman's "Prisoner of the Wired World" through Robin Marantz Henig's cautionary account of nano-technology ("Our Silver-Coated Future") to David Quammen's investigation of diseases that jump from animals to humans ("Deadly Contact")."
