What animals can live in the coldest place on Earth? Emperor penguins sure can! This five-minute video shows how these special penguins travel, live, and grow their families. This is a fantastic video to show your class!

What's black and white and can dive up to 1,800 feet under water? That's right, penguins! Learn this and many other amazing facts about these unique birds with this handy reference sheet.

Students investigate penguins. In this Science lesson, students compare and contrast penguins to flying birds. Students use a Venn diagram to illustrate the differences and similarities of penguins and flying birds.

Students, after reading about the seventeen species of penguins, create and play a game with realistic penguins made from Crayola Model Magic. They complete and develop a learning game about conditions of each penguin species' geographic...

Emperor penguins keep warm at sub-zero Arctic temperatures. How do they do it? Think of the energy generated during a sporting event wave of the crowd, and you will be getting warmer! This short clip shows that tiny, wave-like movement...

Celebrate the circle of life with this fun hands-on activity. After cutting out, gluing together, and assembling this visual model, learners are able to spin through and observe the life cycle of penguins.

These penguins are hungry and it's the job of your young mathematicians to feed them. Each of these large penguin templates has a number printed on it corresponding with the number of goldfish crackers students need to place on it. This...

Practice printing, matching, tracing, cutting, coloring, and more with a packet full of penguins! Allow these perky winter animals to help your kids out as they work on these skills.

What happens to the four little penguins sitting on the ice? Find out with a mini book that includes eight pages of illustrations and rhyming lines. Sure to delight the penguin lovers in your class!

Create adorable penguin-themed books and manipulatives with this cool resource. Instructions for use are provided, as are the stars of the show: five warmly dressed penguins who decide to go for a dip.

Second and third graders complete pre-reading, writing, and post-reading activities for the book Penguins. This guided reading plan includes several exercises to increase comprehension. 

Learners research the different species of penguins, discovering where the various types live, breed, and how they survive. They compare and contrast characteristics of various types of penguins such as size, weight, coloring, and...

Welcome the arrival of winter with this cute printable penguin ornament. Simply cut out the template, make a few folds, add some glue, and your children have themselves a wonderful decoration for the holiday season.

Students explore the attributes of penguins. In this penguins lesson, students participate in a penguin scavenger hunt and take notes on the information they encounter. Students prepare reports about their findings and share them with...

Students will be studying the penguin community to observe the physical characteristics of the penguin and the relation it has to its community through a distance learning project with the Detroit Zoo.

In this penguin worksheet, 3rd graders will add pages to their "animal books." Students will read 10 facts to gain an understanding of a penguin and its particular attributes.

Penguins, one of the most beloved bird species in the world, are not only adorable, they are also in grave danger. Five-sixths of the world's penguin species are endangered or nearly endangered, mostly due to human activities such as...

What youngster doesn't love penguins? Use the ImageBlender on this website, Pics4Learning.com, to create a slide show of Chinstrap, Adelie, Gentoo, and Rockhopper penguin images. Then learners can pick an image from the collage to...

A collection of photos and accompanying descriptions describing the life cycle of an Adelie penguin is the highlight of this resource. Working in groups, polar explorers match the descriptions to the pictures and create a timeline. An...

Students gain an awareness of the diverse habitats of the 17 species of penguins. Standard: 4.4 Interdependence of Life Changes in an organism's habitat are sometimes beneficial to it and sometimes harmful.

Students access prior knowledge about penguins and read to find new information.  In this penguin lesson, students  gather facts about penguins and write about two new facts.  Students use pictures and captions to gather information.

Learners examine how penguins are affected by climate change.  In this climate change lesson plan students research the impact of climate change then create a poster to call awareness to it.