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The Science of Poetry

October 4, 2014

MIT-WHOI Joint Program students Sarah Rosengard and Casey Zakroff made three visits to the classroom of Ms. Cathy Riebesehl’s 4th grade class at Mullen Hall Elementary School in Falmouth, presenting on themes ranging from bird ecology to ocean food webs to fox habitats and introducing the students to different images of scientists each time. At the end of each session, the students were asked to write down words and statements relating to what they learned or experienced. During the last session, they drew ideas from these ‘word banks’ to write these poems inspired by what they learned and shared them with classmates through a spoken-word poetry slam. (Photo by Sarah Rosengard, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)