 L to R: Lily Holm, Katherine Glisson, Frannie Hideg Clark fourth graders in Mrs. Armstrong’s science classes participated in the 2014 Chemists Celebrate Earth Day (CCED) Poem Contest. The contest is sponsored by the Kentucky Lake Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
Katherine Glisson won first place, Frannie Hideg won second, and Lily Holm was honorable mention in the contest.
They were invited to a dinner meeting of the ACS on April 24 to recognize their accomplishments. Their entries will advance to the national CCED poem contest.
Below, published with permission are their poems.
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Rain Shower Wonders
By Katherine Glisson
Water is a wonderful thing
It’s almost used for everything
Plants use it for transpiration
And animals use it for respiration
It’s used for humans’ everyday
We use it to cook and to play
Water… crisp and clear
WATER!!!
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Runoff! (The stage)
By Frannie Hideg
Precipitation, Evaporation, Condensation,
But do you recall Runoff,
The very exclusively important stage?
Water falls back to earth
As precipitation,
Then it turns to Evaporation, a gas.
But lastly it condenses into a liquid,
But then Runoff happens…..
RUNOFF!!!
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Keep Our Water Clean!
By Lily Holm
Have you seen some pollution
Floating down your nearest river?
It’s absolutely disturbing
It just makes me shiver!
We need to conserve
We need to filter
Please, oh please!
Keep our water clean! |
