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Project Title: Save the Penguins

Mission:

How can we help to save the penguins? 

Culminating / Take Action Project

Create a 3D penguin family and penguin diorama to help raise awareness about endangered penguins. 

What Kids Learn

Students learn all about what is special about penguins, why they are in danger, who is helping and how we can help. Students engage in a series of learning activities to learn about penguins. They learn how penguins live out the life habit of kinship and why kinship can help us protect the penguins. Students then take action by raising awareness about how we can all help to save the penguins by creating a 3D penguin family and penguin diorama. 

Overview

Life Habit Focus: Kinship

Subject: Life science, ELA

Grade: K-2

Topic: Animal survival and structures, Animal families, habitats and ecosystems.

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Project Materials

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Materials

Teacher's Guide

Materials List

Student Mission Log

Intro + Life Habits
Learner

Gorilla.Life.Habit.Image

Intro & Life Habit Visuals

Read:
Build Background

Magazine

Literacy Lessons

Literacy Visuals

Explore:
Self Directed Online

Take Action:
Hands-On Activities

Penguin.Course.Page.5

Take Action
Project Booklet

Aligned Standards

Common Core Reading (CCSS):

  • Informational/NonFiction Standards R.I 1-10 for grades K-2.
  • Writing Standards W1,2,4,5,6,7,9 for grades K-2.
  • Listening and Speaking Standards SL1-SL6. 

NGSS Standards:

  • K-LS1-1: Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive. 
  • K-ESS3-1: Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live.
  • K-ESS3-3: Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment.
  • 1-LS1-2. Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive
  • 1-LS3-1: Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.
  • 2-LS4-1: Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.
  • NGSS SEP: Asking questions,  developing models. 
  • NGSS CC: Cause and Effect.
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