Haiku Written by Kids

After examining winning entries to the Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Haiku Competition, young poets try their hand at this fixed form.

Explore soil, genetic traits, natural resources, and pollution in a series of lessons that focus on biodiversity. Kids complete experiments to learn more about the importance of varied genes and organisms in an ecosystem.

What do all those chairs and pencils do in the classroom once everyone leaves? Allow imaginations to run wild with frighteningly short poems!

In this teacher's guide for an edition of Time for Kids, teachers access the edition and associated standards, skills and online resources. Worksheet is 6 pages.

Put the tips and tricks in this guide into practice in order to encourage your pupils to blossom into poets. A wonderful reference material for teachers, this packet includes definitions of poetic terms and forms as well as step-by-step...

Students write haiku poems. In this poetry writing lesson, students are introduced to the characteristics of a haiku poem by reading various samples. Students watch the instructor model how to write a haiku, and then create their own.

Students conduct Internet research and explain the history of Haiku. After listening and reading various examples of Haiku, students use their own vocabulary and practice their math skills to determine the correct number of syllables...

Third graders examine traditional Japanese haiku through the process of reading and composing their own haiku. They do so by recording/reviewing the growth of a plant. Students use a digital picture and PowerPoint to create a finished...

What can you tell me about owls? Emerging writers create a written report based on the adaptations of owls. First they must research different characteristics of owls in groups of two or three, and then they write an informational paper...

Young scholars create biographies on the people they know best-- their teachers! students use various skills to collect information, organize details, publish the biographies and present the information.