Can you write a short science poem about SOMETHING SMALLER THAN YOU?   It could be about a little critter, mini microbe, tiny item, or it could be about one or more LITTLE THINGS that have significance – like an eye or pea, down to an atomic particle.

By the time Science Week begins (9-17 August), the Science Rhymes website will display a collection of YOUR rhyming verse poems for our ITTYVERSE anthology blog. 

There’s a free PDF called SMALL TINY NANO below and on the National Science Week page of the Science Rhymes website to help you get started (which also gives an example of how to use AI for assistance).

Please email your poems to feedback@sciencerhymes.com.au by Monday 29th July.  Include a poem title & your name, plus your town, school name and an adult name & email address for school-aged poets, so we can reply.  A rhyming poem of up to 4 verses (or a single Haiku) would be ideal (but others may be considered for publication).  Published poems by children will be acknowledged by first name only (and school name where supplied).  If you use ChatGPT or other AI tools to create your poem, you need to declare this.  You are both valid authors of the poem.