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Maude Moore Wood

Palo Alto Middle School

“This / is the world I want to live in. The shared world.”

The 2025 poster features an excerpt from “Gate A-4”, a poem by former Young People’s Poet Laureate and Academy Chancellor Naomi Shihab Nye, as well as artwork by New York Times-bestselling author and illustrator Christy Mandin.

Mandin was selected by Scholastic—the global children’s publishing, education, and media company—to create the artwork for this year’s poster as part of a National Poetry Month collaboration with the Academy of American Poets.

Theme: "Our Power, Our Planet"

Renewable Energy Facts

1. In the US in 2023, the US produced more solar power than ever before with California, Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Nevada and Arizona the states leading the solar revolution. It is helping to produce the cheapest electricity in history.
2. In the United States, Texas—long associated with oil production—now leads the nation in wind energy generation.
3. The U.S. also has used its existing drilling capacity to become the world’s leading producer of advanced geothermal energy.

Official Theme: "Celebrating Military Children and Youth: Building Stronger Character and Relationships"

Celebrate Earth Day with VEXcode VR's Coral Reef Cleanup Activity. Through the lens of a VR robot, you will learn how robotics can be applied in practical settings, like keeping our oceans clean!

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🔬🧪 Ways to Incorporate Poetry into STEM

🧪✨ STEM + Poetry Examples

📝 FUN CLASSROOM ACTIVITY IDEAS

• STEM Poem Journals – After a science experiment, have students write a short poem describing what happened.

• Shape Poems – Write a poem inside the outline of a shape (e.g., the moon, a robot, a leaf).

• STEM Poem of the Week – Pick a weekly theme (gravity, weather, robots) and write poems together.

• Rhyming Science Songs – Turn a STEM topic into a poem-turned-song for memory and fun.

Email: STEM@killeenisd.org
Website: kisd4stem.org
Phone: (254)336-7836