Thematic Units - Penguins

Penguins

You will find various Web Sites on the top portion of this page.
Further down, you will find Lesson Plans & Activities.
At the bottom of the page, you will find Books that you can order directly from Amazon.com!

Web Sites

Adopt a Penguin
A fun way for students to get involved with penguins.

Elementary Themes: Penguins
The folks at Gander Academy bring you a number of penguin resources including web sites and lesson plans.

KidZone Penguins
Activities, facts and photos.

Live from Antarctica 2
Ready for a field trip you'll enjoy as much as your students? Set sail with Passport to Knowledge for Live from Antarctica 2!

MonteralCam
Watch penguins on the live WebCam.

New Zealand Penguins
Learn about this island's great birds.

Penguin Planet
More information about penguins than you ever needed!

Penguins
Brought to you by Sea World. A complete collection of information and resources.

Pete & Barb's Penguin Pages
This page provides a description of each section of our penguin site. There are over 100 different pages as well as many photographs, maps, etc.

Virtual Antarctica Science: Penguins
Learn about the various species of penguins that inhabit Antarctica.

The World of Penguins
This is a wonderful PBS resource.

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Lesson Plans & Activities

A Penguin is a Bird Grades K-5
Students will compare and contrast the ways that penguins are different to flying birds.

A Penguin’s Winter Wonderland Grades K-3
Students will write a creative story or poem based on a penguin scene they create using ImageBlender.

Animals of the Poles Grades 3-4
The activity may be used in connection with a science unit on animals of various regions of the world.

Antarctica: Animal Printouts Grades Various
You can learn about the animals and print pictures to color. Brought to you by Zoom School.

Blubber Glove Grades Various
An experiment that will help students answer this question: "How do Antarctic animals stay warm in bone-chilling water?"

CanTeach: Penguins Grades Various
A fun collection of songs and poems.

ChildFun Family Website: Penguins Grades Various
A great resource for arts & crafts, games & activities, recipes & snacks, and songs & finger plays.

Coloring Pages Grades Various
A great collection of various types of penguin worksheets to print and color.

Differences: Opening Doors to Social Studies with Children's Literature Grades 1-3
Use the story Tacky the Penguin to help children recognize similarities and differences among people.

Easy Penguin Craft Grades Primary
A fun way for young students to practice their circles.

Favorite Penguin Grades 2-5
Students will use research skills to increase their knowledge of their favorite penguin.

Hand & Footprint Penguin Grades 1-3
Make adorable penguins for the classroom bulletin board.

How do Penguins Stay Warm in Extremely Cold Water? Grades K-3
A lesson designed to use the experimental process to show how penguins stay warm in extremely cold water. The lesson uses discussion of the experiment as the assessment tool.

Paper Bag Penguins Grades Various
A fun and easy craft for anyone's penguin unit.

Penguin Activities Grades Various
Penguin Printable Worksheets and other "Off line" Activities.

Penguin Adaptation Grades Intermediate
While learning about what it takes for penguins to survive, students must create their own animal suited to live in Antarctica.

Penguin Capers Grades K-3
In this thematic unit of study, students will explore penguins and expand their knowledge of penguins to include different types of penguins, their behavior, habitat, communication, reproduction, diet, eating habits and conservation.

Penguin Craft Grades Primary
A fun craft that can easily be paired with a story.

Penguin Light Bulb Grades 3-5
After researching and learning about penguins, students use old light bulbs to create a clever penguin craft.

Penguin March Grades Various
A fun penguin song sung to the tune of a military chant.

The Penguin Place Grades K-3
A collection of online activities, printable worksheets, and links for teachers.

Penguin Songs Grades Primary
A fun collection of songs.

The Penguin Thematic Unit Page Grades 3
Students will explore penguins and expand their knowledge of penguins to include different types of penguins, their behavior, habitat, communication, diet and eating habits and conservation.

Penguin Theme Unit Grades 1-3
Students will learn about the Emperor penguin.

Penguins Around the World Grades 3-5
Students will gain an awareness of the diverse habitats of the 17 species of penguins.

Penguins, Penguins, Penguins Grades K-3
Students will learn about penguins - where they live, what they eat. They will also learn about the shape of a penguin.

Perfectly Penguins Grade K
A WebQuest that has students learning about five different types of penguins.

Print Outs Grades PreK-2
Students learn about verbs in The Penguins.
Your students can use this graphic organizer to learn about the Penguin's Food Chain.

Reader's Theatre Tacky the Penguin Grades K-5
There are no materials needed for this fun Reader's Theatre activity.

Sea World
Sea World offers teacher guides to penguin units. Click on the grade level you want. (They are both a PDF file. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them.)
K - 3
4 - 8

Where are the Penguins? (WebQuest) Grades K-2
This WebQuest is designed to actually be used with "Buddies" - first graders with sixth grade assistants. The WebQuest introduces P.B., the polar bear, who is looking all over the North Pole for some penguins to play with. P.B. asks the students to help him find info about penguins and why he cannot find any.

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Books

Antarctic Antics
by Judy Sierra

Antarctica (Sunburst Book)
by Helen Cowcher

Busy Penguins
by John Schindel

Cinderella Penguin, Or, the Little Glass Flipper (Picture Puffins)
by Janet Perlman

Counting Penguins (Science Emergent Readers)
by Betsey Chessen

Cuddly Dudley
by Jez Alborough

Easy Make & Learn Projects: Penguins (Grades 1-3)
by Donald M. Silver

The Emperor Lays an Egg
by Brenda Z. Guiberson

The Emperor's Egg
by Martin Jenkins

Everything for Winter: A Complete Activity Book for Teachers of Young Children: Activities for December, January, and February
by Kathy Charner