Experiment with Science and Poetry with Fifth Grade PFA FOR SCIENCE!

Each day this week I will be sharing about the new PFA FOR SCIENCE, brought to you by Sylvia Vardell & Janet Wong, with a host of fine poets contributing! And what a fun week it's been... thanks to all for your comments and warm enthusiasm.

Here's the schedule:
Monday: KINDERGARTEN
Tuesday: FIRST GRADE
Wednesday: SECOND GRADE
Thursday: THIRD GRADE
Friday: FOURTH GRADE
Saturday: FIFTH GRADE

Each day I will be giving away a copy of the Student Edition for that grade level... and at the end of the week, I will choose one winner from all the commenters via blog/Facebook/Twitter for the K-5 TEACHER edition!

So, FIFTH GRADE. Again, the line drawings that accompany the poems in the Student Edition are wonderful and engaging! There's also a Glossary and Index, both of which I find particularly helpful. And I especially appreciate the inclusion of English and Spanish translations of some of the poems. Nice!
The poem I'd like to share today reminds me of why I love poetry. It magnifies something small and often taken for granted: 
THINK OF AN ATOMby Buffy Silverman
Think of an atomso tiny, so small--a speck of the world             a speck of us all,a speck of the oceana speck of a flya speck of a mountain,             a book or the sky.
Imagine that speckgrowing wide, growing tall              an atom as large asyour school or the mall.
The atom looks empty--           almost nothing at all,but there in the centera tiny tight ballof neutrons and protonswith mass and with weight.How many for each?           for oxygen: eight!)
Its charges are balanced: a proton adds one,           -(each electron's a minus)the neutrons add none.
Outside of the nucleus--             that tight little ball--the electrons are swirlingthey're smaller than smalllike pieces of dustwhizzing through spacea cloud of electrons              in a zip-zapping race.
An atom is tiny--astoundingly small--Trillions like hereon this dot that I scrawl.
-------Yay for atoms! This poem makes something we can't even see wondrous and fun. To which I say: yay for poetry! :)
In the TEACHER'S EDITION for this poem (p.237), Sylvia Vardell has created TAKE FIVE! activities that include: 
Listening for science wordsinviting students to join in on the final stanzachallenging students to illustrate a part of the poem using sketch or collagediscussion about matter and properties and a look at a model of an atoma reference to other poems about matter
Good stuff! 
GIVEAWAY: Comment here or on Twitter @irene_latham or on my Facebook page! Winners announced daily.