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- Appropriate grades
- 4
- Subjects
- thinking skills (information literacy, research skills, visual literacy), teaching methods (discovery learning, online learning)
- Provider
- National Geographic
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In this Xpeditions activity, students explore emperor penguin rookeries. An emperor penguin community is called a rookery. It is made up of many penguins who live, fish, breed, and raise young together. While viewing March of the Penguins, students look for different examples of how penguins live and participate in a community. Using an online interactive tool, students categorize the information they collected through conducting online research and hypothesize about how this knowledge can help them support their own communities. Xpeditions provides links to relevant web resources, questions for discussion, and alternative assignments for diverse age groups.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Science (2005)
Grade 4
- Goal 1: The learner will make observations and conduct investigations to build an understanding of animal behavior and adaptation.
- Objective 1.03: Observe and discuss how behaviors and body structures help animals survive in a particular habitat.
- Objective 1.04: Explain and discuss how humans and other animals can adapt their behavior to live in changing habitats.
- Objective 1.05: Recognize that humans can understand themselves better by learning about other animals.
