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Lesson Plans about the Environment

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Browse this selection of lesson plans featuring poems about the environment, nature, and science.

poems about nature for kids

Teach This Poem: “Good Grief” by KB Brookins

Teach This Poem: “The Carolina Wren” by Laura Donnelly

Teach This Poem: “Characteristics of Life” by Camille T. Dungy

Teach This Poem: “Putting in the Seed” by Robert Frost

Teach This Poem: “A Small Needful Fact” by Ross Gay

Teach This Poem: “Letter to My Great, Great Grandchild” by J. P. Grasser

Incredible Bridges: “Remember” by Joy Harjo

Teach This Poem: “Map” by Linda Hogan

Teach This Poem: “Binsey Poplars” by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Teach This Poem: “The Tree Sparrows” by Joseph O. Legaspi

Teach This Poem: “The Metier of Blossoming” by Denise Levertov

Teach This Poem: “The Everglades” by Campbell McGrath

Teach This Poem: “A Jelly-Fish” by Marianne Moore

Teach This Poem: “Coyote” by Alexander Posey

Teach This Poem: “Unpacking a Globe” by Arthur Sze

There’s Poetry in an Atom: Writing Creatively About Science

Teach This Poem: “Always on the Train” by Ruth Stone

Teach This Poem: “The Shapes of Leaves” by Arthur Sze

Teach This Poem: “Willow Poem” by William Carlos Williams

Teach This Poem: “The Snowfall Is So Silent” by Miguel de Unamuno

Complicated Identities: On Adrienne Rich’s “Diving into the Wreck”

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