Language Arts
The Poetry of Mars Expressed by Texas Students
Fort Worth, Texas
At Riverside Applied Learning Center in Fort Worth, Texas students
participated in creative writing assignments, developed poems and took
part in a number of challenging educational projects that results in
students and teachers alike gaining a vast array of knowledge about
Mars, space and exploration. Second and fourth grade students
expressed what they learned by writing poems, such as:
Ode to Mars
By Allison Stapleton & Amy Thankham
Mars is cool; Mars is Great! Mars is bigger than our state.
Though it's rusty and ugly too, we love Mars oo -- oo -- oo!
A group of fourth grade students at the school, which is part of the
Forth Worth Independent School District, created a space news team that
wrote Mars news and broadcast space questions daily on the school
morning announcements. The entire student body was invited to
research the Mars question. If students answered correctly, they won a
student designed Mars bookmark and a space prize.
