Penguin Lesson Plans Facts Crafts Coloring Pages

 

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Are you planning on teaching kids about penguins?
Well then you’ve come to the right place. On this page you will find a complete Unit Study on Penguins.
The lessons are interactive with videos, experiments, quizzes, crafts and even online activities for the kids to have fun.

Here at the top of the page I have made a Table of Contents for you to easily click to the exact part that you are working on. There are also links next to each section’s title that can bring you back to the Table of Contents.
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Online Penguin Activities for Kids

Online Penguin Stories

Online Penguin Puzzles

Online Penguin Dress Up Games

2 Fun Online Penguin Games

How to Draw a Penguin

Penguins Origami

Teaching with Penguin Videos

Penguins and Communication

Penguins Fight for their Food

The Diversity of Life (for older kids)

3 Videos Show What Penguins are Like

The Penguin Hoax

Researching about Penguins

Life Cycle of Penguins

Why Penguins Need Blubber Science Experiment

Researching the Web

Penguin Paper for Reports

Penguins Cards & Awards

Penguin Printables: Coloring Pages, Crafts & Fun Activities for Kids

Penguins Coloring Pages

Penguins Crafts

Penguins Masks

A Tasty Penguin Themed Snack

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(You can listen to and read these stories.)

What Do Little Penguins Eat? This is an engaging story. Author: Jonny Belt Narrated by: Whoopi Goldberg	Penguin Penguin A story for kids to read with short text about 30 pages long Younger children can click on the ear and have the story read to them:
Preschool Penguin Story A very simple but cute story for early childhood	Tick Tock and the Mysterious Egg Listen to and/or read this very cute story- (for ages 10 and up)

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Colorful Penguin Dress Up Game Very cute game to play online

Black and White Dress Up Game You can play and then print to color:

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Here is a video that will teach you to draw a penguin cartoon:

Drawing Instructions how to draw a penguin- (don’t forget to click on the next button on the bottom left corner).

Step by Step Drawing Instructions on how to draw a penguin:

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Paper Origami

Here are some video instructions. If it helps you can pause the video while you try to make the penguin origami:

Wet Towel Origami
Make a cute penguin out of a small wet hand towel:

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Have you ever heard the saying communication is the basis of all relationship? Well this is especially true with penguins. Watch this interesting video to learn about how penguins communicate:

Discussion questions after watching the video:

How do penguin parents find their young in the mist of huge amount of penguins?

What is the reproductive cycle of penguins?

What do the male and female penguins do when they decide that they like each other?

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Discussion questions after watching the video: Do penguins work together to gather more food? How?

What other animal tries to grab some of the fish?

What do the penguins do in order to still get some of the fish?

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Watch this absolutely awesome informative movie on penguins. This video is a bit more advanced so younger children will not be able to accompany it.
It’s best to watch the video a 2nd time before attempting to do the quiz.



The following quiz is based on the informative little movie just watched.
Brainpop Quiz

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Video 1 – How do Penguins Walk?

Video 2 – How do Penguins Swim?

Video 3 – What do Penguins Sound Like?
Watch this video and try to figure it out:

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Can penguins fly? No they can’t. There is no such thing as a penguin that can fly.
BBC decided to pull a prank on everyone on April Fool’s Day and make an entire commercial as a joke to trick people into thinking that some penguins can fly.
Don’t believe anyone that says a penguin can fly.
In fact if you so happen to see a real penguin flying- run- because it’s definitely the apocalypse
Here is the hoax penguin commercial itself:

Here is the making of their video that was done with computer animation:

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This awesome picture can be printed out and put on the wall. Click on the image for it to be enlarged.

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Teach the kids the importance of blubber for penguins with this activity:

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Penguin Facts Places for the kids to do research: The various species of penguins	Penguin Photographs Beautiful Professional Penguin Photographs
A Baby Penguin Being Born Pictures of an Emperor Penguin Hatch	Great Information on Penguins Here is a great link for older children to read, research and make reports on penguins:

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Write a report about penguins Using this awesome paper:(can also be a penguin book cover)	Penguin Shaped Paper Writing paper with lines:
Penguin shaped paper without lines	Penguin Note Paper Colorful penguin paper (stationary to make our reports even prettier): Christmas penguin stationary

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