Renewable Poetry

In this Upper KS2 poetry resource, learners will be introduced to some ways that humans are responding to biodiversity loss and climate change. They will read a poem in which animals react to some good news, and discuss it. They will then write their own poem in the form of a reverse golden shovel, using the sentence ‘the renewable energy revolution is happening faster than you think’. This session aids understanding of biodiversity loss and measures to prevent it, uses of past and present tense in poems, and the golden shovel form of poetry.  

This resource has been developed by the Poetry Society in line with the National Curriculum to facilitate creative poetry writing about key issues.