Science Verse

Science Verse by Jon Scieszka is book of poems about different topics in science. A young boy is in science class when his teacher gives him a curse called the science verse. This curse causes the boy to hear everything about science in a poem style. The poems in the story are about just about every topic in science from evolution to the water cycle, the human body, dinosaurs, the food chain, scientific method and many more.
    This is the first book I have ever read in verse and I kind of liked it. I thought the way the poems were presented and written gave the story humor and made science topics kind of fun. The terms in this book may be hard to for some students to pronounce and many may be new to students so I would use this book as a read aloud.
     This book would be great to use during different science units. You could read the poems that are related to the unit you are doing. The only problem is that students wouldn't want to stop at just one or two poems about that certain unit; they would want to continue reading the whole book. Many of the poems are silly but educational at the same time. Students would really enjoy having this book read aloud to them. This book is great to read to third graders and older but any younger may be a little confused. You could even use this book to introduce and talk about poetry with your students. Using this book is a great way to weave literature and poetry into science. You could have your students create their own poems about different science topics.