Note to teachers: We have included the following poems we came across while researching Maggies You Must be Choking. We hope you share some of these poems with your students and enjoy. If you run across other poems, new activities or make up some of your own please do not hesitate to share them with us.
Greenhouse Effect
All those gases,
Rattle in my brain,
Oxides, methane-
Driving me insane.
Why does my fifth grade teacher,
Torture me this way?
Got to learn those gases' names,
By the end of day.
Theyre really quite important,
To our planets atmosphere.
For if they multiply too much,
Earths protection disappears!
All those oxides,
Spewed by factories,
Are then carried world wide
On a gentle breeze.
But eating at the ozone,
Is what these gases do
Then our planet warms right up
And thats a bug-a-boo.
Fossil fuel burning
Has really got to go
We have to find some other ways
To break this status quo.
Polar ice caps dripping,
Instead of solid ice,
Causing seas to rise right up
That isnt very nice!
Wetlands and farmlands
Will soon become too dry
Now I know why my teach says
We cannot just stand by.
Wind and solar power -
Those gases do not make
Let's look at some alternatives
For planet Earths sake.
So, I will learn my oxides,
Methane, hydrocarbons, too
Then maybe I can help the earth-
Its really overdue!
Ann Hart
Suggested Activity: Rap it!
Time to Plant Trees by James Hayford
Knock at a Star.
X.J. Kennedy and Dorothy M. Kennedy
Little, Brown and Company.
RAINFOREST by Judith Wright
Classic Poems to Read Aloud
Selected by James Berry.
Kingfisher. Tree.
Big Bang Boing by Douglas Florian.
