The Amazing 2013 Vultures Rock Competition

The Halloween Vultures Rock Poetry Competition is open once more for entries. This competition focuses on the plight of vultures, whose numbers are dropping around the world mainly because people know so little about them and why they need to be protected.  To honor the job that vultures do in cleaning up our world, children, ages 8-12, are invited to submit original poems that describe how they think vulture’s rock. Poems, which do not have to rhyme, are to be submitted to the Vultures Rock website by October 18^th, 2013. Winners will receive iPod Shuffles.

The competition is an excellent way to help students learn about the importance of vultures in our world and celebrate the fall season. Be sure to check the rules for entry on the site.

Robotics & Literature—Watch

Watch students merge literature and robotics using a Hummingbird Robotics Kit. On the Hummingbird site, you’ll find two videos—one is the presentation of Robert Frost’s Fire & Ice and the other shows how the students created their poetry theater. It’s not just in language arts that you can integrate engineering with course content. Creative teachers and students are finding ways to have fun with the electronics kits in science, art, math, and social studies, as well as, technology. Hummingbird kits are priced below $200 and include tutorials, hardware, and software that works using Windows, Mac, and Linux. On the Arts & Bots curricula site, you’ll find full curricula, after-school activities, project ideas, and classroom resources.

Vultures Rock 2nd Annual Poetry Competition

Vultures may not be the most attractive of birds but think of all they do for our environment. Learning about the problems they face, how they live, and why they are important to our world will help students better understand some of the difficulties we face in our environment.  To encourage student learning about vultures, the 2^nd Annual Vultures Rock Poetry Competition is now open to ages 8-12. Students can submit up to two poems of no more than sixteen lines (not counting the title). Applications are on the site; poems are due by October 10, 2012. Let your students rock with the vultures and they may win one of three iPod Shuffles for their creativity.