Image: Colored Logo_Younger kids

Projects in this category are recommended for ages 08 -12 years.

Whether it be a sonnet or a cinquain, we encourage students to share their literary work and discuss it with one another. Students use this project to develop their poetry knowledge and writing skills by sharing and discussing poems they have written, narrated and/or illustrated (optional) in an online Poetry Month community.

This is an overview of the what Educational Continuum Organization @ iSTEAM Cosmic Academy offers for the students of age group 08 - 12 years.


  • Principal Investigators: Bonnie B. Thurber, S N Sugumar
  • Co-Investigators: Chitra Singh, Amritanshu Vajpayee

Authors: Bonnie Thurber, Hongfeng Guo

Grade Levels/Ages: grades 5-8, Middle School

Subject Areas: Science, Astronomy, Space Science, Language Arts, Art

In this project, students become cultural astronomers.