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Penguins in Education

Here are a few suggestions for class activities for students aged 6 – 10

Resources: a map of the world, a pin board and pins, some tape measures, some scales, paper and pencils or crayons, plasticine, and some toy penguins

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Ask everybody to put a pin on the map where they live and then to put a pin on the map where they think penguins live.

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Weigh each penguin separately and write down the weights.  Weigh pairs of penguins.  Work out how much two, three or four penguins would weigh – check the answer by weighing.

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Measure the height of the penguins, write down the height of each penguin.

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Describe a penguin.

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Draw a penguin.

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Make a plasticine model of a penguin.

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What sort of animals are penguins? (i.e. mammal, fish, bird etc.)

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Think of three things all birds have in common.

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Read a book with a penguin story (see books section pages for kids books).

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Separate the kids into groups.....the King group...the Emperor group...the Chinstrap group, etc. After they have identified with their group and learnt about 4 or 5 things about their own group, play a game like a spelling bee, only ask questions that are relevant to their particular species.