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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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Teacher
Materials
Teacher's Guide
Materials List
Student Mission Log
Intro + Life Habits
Learner
Life Habit Activity
Intro & Life Habit Visuals
Read:
Build Background
Magazine
Literacy Lessons
Literacy Visuals
Take Action:
Hands-On Activities
Take Action Project
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.
Course Content
Introduction to your mission
Life Habit: Kinship
What is kinship?
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What does kinship look like?
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What is special about penguins?
Lesson 1: Why are penguins special?
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Lesson 2: Penguin movements
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Lesson 3: Where do penguins live?
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Lesson 4: Penguin habitats
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Lesson 5: Penguin kinship
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Why are penguins endangered?
Lesson 6: Endangered penguins
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Lesson 7: Why are penguins endangered?
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Lesson 8: Fiordland Crested penguin
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Lesson 9: Penguins and the Maori people
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Who is helping and how can we help?
Lesson 10: Meet Pablo Borboroglu
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Lesson 11: How can we help?
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