Spectacular Science: A Book of Poems. Hopkins, Lee Bennett. Ill. Halstead, Virginia. Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. New York, NY. 1999.
This poetry book is just FUN and it makes learning about science fun as well. This would be a great book to introduce a new science topic, as a warm up or just to enhance a science lesson.
The book starts with a poem titled "What is Science?" by Rebecca Kai Dotlich. This would be a wonderful poem to display on the wall at the beginning of the year in a science class. Reading it orally to the class could be a spring-board to discussions on what will be taught in the class and spark interest in students. (as well as the added bonus of bringing poetry into the Science classroom!!)
The poems are a compilation of various scientific topics. They are written in a fun manner, but also have important, educational information embedded within each poem. The illustrations are "whimsical" and fun just like each poem. The illustrations enhance the poems as well as the subjects covered. The poems could easily be used from elementary to high school, the poems lend themselves to all age groups to enjoy and learn from.
Excerpt:
Rocks
Florence Parry Heide
Big rocks into pebbles,
pebbles into sand,
I really hold a million rocks here in my hand.
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