Curated OER
Dive and Discover the Ocean
Third graders investigate the three zones of the ocean and the plants and animals that live in each zone. Projects produced are shared with classmates in a share circle where the unique features of the animal and zone selected are...
Curated OER
The Three Perfections
Students discover the various styles, form, beauty, and grace of Chinese calligraphy by examining works of art from different eras in China's history. This lesson includes two possible enrichment activities.
Curated OER
Tell Me a Whopper!
Sixth graders investigate tall tales as a literary genre. They listen to a number of tall tales to discover how exaggeration is used as a story element. They write and publish a tall tale using word processing software. They illustrate...
Curated OER
Guardians of the Games
Students create life sized figures in a sport activity. The figures are faceless to represent athletes or players of past present and future. They are created in full color and laminated, then cut and applied to cardboard to allow them...
Curated OER
Tasmanian Time Travel
Sixth graders perform research using the Internet about the Tasmanian Devil. The project can be presented in a variety of ways. The use of computer software is important for students to know, specifically Hyperstudio.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: What Makes Poetry? Exploring Line Breaks
This lesson explains how analyzing poetry is a many-layered process. This lesson introduces the special characteristics of poetry and leads students through a look at how poems are structured and why. Includes links to poems and web...
PBS
Pbs: Transcending Poetry, Jazz, Rap & Hip Hop
The objectives in this activity will have students describing the characteristics of poetry, jazz, rap and hip hop music. Students will also analyze how poetry, jazz, hip hop and poetry reflect the culture of the time.
Other
Anglo Saxon Period: Characteristics of Poetry
This concise survey of Anglo-Saxon poetry is part of a larger site in English for Chinese university students.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: A New Poet
This six-stanza poem describes the characteristics of a new poet.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: The Poet
This three-stanza gives non-complimentary characteristics about a poet.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Makes a Poem a Poem?
Melissa Kovacs shares three recognizable characteristics of most poetry.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: Machines
This poem describes the characteristics of an effective machine.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Native American Acrostic Poems
For this lesson, students will synthesize the knowledge they have acquired about early Native American tribes by creating and presenting an acrostic poem that incorporates pictures symbolizing important characteristics of the tribes. In...
Other
Fu Jen University: Metaphysical Poetry
This article by Dr. Marguerite Connor focuses on metaphysical poetry and the metaphysical poets. It includes a definition, the characteristics, a discussion of metaphycial poets and poetry, Neo-Platonism, platonic love, and T.S. Eliot's...
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Poetry of the West
This entry, from the Cambridge History of English and American Literature, provides a description of the poetry written in the second half of the nineteenth century by poets of the American West, namely Bret Harte. It examines common...
Can Teach
Can Teach: How to Write an "I Am" Poem
This is a template for "I Am" poetry. Students will focus on their own characteristics as they create an autobiographical poem.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Diamond Poem
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart describes the structure and composition of a Diamond Poem. After studying the characteristics of a poem, students have the opportunity to construct one of their own.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: The Modern Poet
This is an introduction to a modern poetry unit; it features links to poetry and technology standards and a list of key terms. The essential questions for the unit focuses on the characteristics of contemporary poetry, how poets use...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Poetic Forms
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to compare and contrast the relationship between the purpose and characteristics of different poetic forms: epic poetry and lyric poetry.
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Scholastic
Scholastic: Noun Poem Reproducible [Pdf]
A three page pdf includes notes for the teacher and reproducible pages for students. A poem to help students identify nouns and a fun "Mad Lib" type exercise are included.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: A Prelude to Beowulf
Before reading the Anglo-Saxon epic poem, "Beowulf," students should explore the Dark Ages through researching the fundamental characteristics of the art and literature produced during this period. This website provides links for doing...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Writing Free Verse
This online lesson plan allows young scholars to learn about the characteristics of free verse poetry and to model their poems after the activist Cesar Chavez.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Can You Haiku?
Informative lesson for students concerning the writers, descriptions, and characteristics of the haiku. Also allows students to create their own original haiku.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Metaphysical Poet
This is an encyclopedia artical about the 17th century metaphysical poets: John Donne, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, John Cleveland, Abraham Cowley, George Herbert and Richard Crashaw. It offers links to more informatation about each of...