P E N G U I N S

AROUND THE WORLD

Introduction – Task – Process – Evaluation - Conclusion

Introduction

·   All aboard!  Grab your passport, maps, and suitcases!!  Jump on board the Penguin Ship.  Imagine you are a scientist who has been hired to help Roots Zoo care for their penguins.  You could be traveling to Antarctica or Africa!

Task

·   You will read information about different kinds of penguins, write about one penguin, and make your own penguin.  Then you will share your penguin with other scientists in our class.

Process

  • Browse the penguins.
  • Choose a penguin to learn about.
  • Read about that penguin.
  • Write about that penguin.
  • Cut out and decorate your penguin.
  • Share your penguin with your scientist buddies.

 

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Penguin Zone

Adelie Penguins

 

We are the Adelie penguins. Adelie penguins are the smallest of the penguins living on the Antarctica continent.  We are smaller than an Emperor penguin. We dive down into the icy water to get fish. Then to get out of the water we swim upwards very fast and shoot up and land on the ice. Female Adelies lay 2 eggs in the nest. The male then takes over the job of keeping the egg warm by holding it on the tops of his feet or lying on the egg in the nest. The female goes to feed and returns in three weeks to help with the chicks. When parents return with food for the chicks it will run from the chicks making the chicks chase and catch them for the food. Often only one chick will survive. Their chicks grow the fastest of all penguins.

Gentoo Penguins

 

We are called Gentoo penguins because of the splash of white feathers above their eyes. We live on the Antarctic islands.  Our bills are bright coral red. We lay flat on the ice and push with our flippers and "toboggan" over the ice. We have a "waddle-like" walk like the Emperors, Chinstrap and Adelie. Gentoos make their nests on the rocky shores. They prefer the inland grasslands for nest building. They carry and pile stones, pebbles, grass, sticks, and anything they can find to make a circle. Gentoos can be very aggressive and will fight over stones or take stones and nest building material away from other birds' nests.

Chinstrap Penguin

 

We are Chinstrap penguins because we have a thin band of black feathers under our chin. We eat fish, squid, shrimp, crabs, lobster and krill from the icy waters. We live in Antarctica. Even though we are birds, we cannot fly, because we are too heavy for our flippers to lift our bodies off the land.

Macaroni Penguin

 

We are Macaroni penguins and live at the bottom on Africa. See the long orange-yellow feathers that come out of our foreheads. We live on rocks and cliffs above the ocean. To move we hold our flippers back, put our heads forward and hop from rock to rock. We lay two eggs.  The first one is usually broken. The parents take turns hatching the second one.

Emperor Penguin

 I am an Emperor Penguin and live in Antarctica. Emperors are the largest penguins with the most colors. We have a black head, a blue-grey back, orange patches on our heads, and orange-yellow spots on their chest.

Evaluation

·   I learned about penguins.

·   I wrote about my penguin neatly in my very best handwriting.

·   I decorated my penguin doing my best work.

·   I shared my penguin with the class. 

·   I spoke clearly, loud enough, and on topic.

·   I listened and was respectful while others shared their penguins.

Conclusion

·   Now that you know about your kind of penguin, listen to others share about their penguins.  Whisper to your neighbor one thing you learned about another kind of penguin.  Don’t forget to read about penguins in our library!!