Haiku
3rd Grade Research and Inquiry Resources
Objectives
• Students will use the Internet to research haiku.
• Students will learn more about how to write haikus.
• Students will write haikus and submit them to a Web site.
Description
The Johnson County Library, in Kansas, sponsors this Web site. The site provides information about haiku, instructions on how to write it, and examples of haiku written by children.
Suggested Activities
• Have students pair up and brainstorm different subjects to write about in haiku form.
Level Activities
• Have students connect to http://www.haikupoetshut.com. Then have students:
click on Photo Haiku or Haiga to read illustrated examples of haiku.
find pictures of nature in magazines and write haikus about them.
cut the pictures of nature out of magazines, write a haiku on the pictures, and use them to
create a mobile to hang in the classroom displaying them.