Cross-Curricular Connections

The haiku is a form of poetry that was created in Japan. Japanese poets have written haiku for a very long time. Click on the link below to read about an ancient Japanese city that may have been buried in the ocean by an earthquake.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070919-sunken-city.html

The four haiku that you read describe the weather in different seasons. A meteorologist is a scientist that studies the Earth’s atmosphere and the weather that it produces. Click on the link below to learn about how meteorologists predict the weather.
http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078778026/student_view0/unit5/chapter16/virtual_lab.html