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    The document outlines an inquiry project on emperor penguins for students. It involves students asking questions, making predictions, recording discoveries, and sharing findings with peers. Students will explore penguins through books, pictures, activities and games. The project covers penguin body parts, habitat, survival in cold weather, daily life, size comparisons to other penguins, and why they cannot fly. Assessment includes photos, oral communication, and questioning. Links are made to curriculum areas of reading, writing, math, oral language, visual arts, and music.

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    Inquiry Planning: Wonders

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    Krista Wodzinski
    The document outlines an inquiry project on emperor penguins for students. It involves students asking questions, making predictions, recording discoveries, and sharing findings with peers. Students will explore penguins through books, pictures, activities and games. The project covers penguin body parts, habitat, survival in cold weather, daily life, size comparisons to other penguins, and why they cannot fly. Assessment includes photos, oral communication, and questioning. Links are made to curriculum areas of reading, writing, math, oral language, visual arts, and music.

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    Inquiry Planning

    Wonders: Insects
    - ?
    Duration: (approx. 3 weeks)
    Students Involvement:
    - ask questions/make predictions
    - represent/record/communicate discoveries/findings
    - create a word wall
    - share their reasoning/findings with peers/teachers
    Students Involved:
    - Whole class- guided activity
    - Independent or small group -free exploration
    Links to Curriculum: Science And Technology
    Big Idea: Children are curious and connect prior knowledge to new contexts in order to
    understand the world around them.
    - 1. demonstrate an awareness of the natural and built environment through hands on
    investigations, observations, questions, and representations of their findings
    Assessment:
    - Photos
    - Oral communication
    - Prompted questioning
    Materials/Provocations:
    - Books/resources
    - penguins
    - pictures of emperor penguins and their habitat
    - Penguins (have/are/can) chart
    Projected Questioning:
    -

    I wonder what the weather is like where emperor penguins live.


    What do you notice about the emperor penguins body?
    What did you see the penguins eating?
    What did you notice how the emperor penguins move?
    How do the mom and dad take care of their egg?
    I wonder who the emperor penguins predator is.

    Curriculum Areas:

    Reading: Read books/charts/classroom print


    Writing:
    Print word wall words/label the body parts on our life size penguin
    Record/represent observations and knowledge through writing
    Mathematics: NS(counting- roll and draw a penguin), P(patterning penguins), DM (sort,
    classify, record magnetic and non-magnetic objects), M (measure how tall an emperor
    penguin is)
    Oral Language:
    Communicate observations, results and findings from investigations
    Develop vocabulary and use language to bring meaning to what is seen and thought
    Visual Arts:
    - Play-doh (create a penguin with play-doh)
    - Painting (paint a picture of an emperor penguin)
    Music: Sing songs
    Conclusions:
    Students will learn
    - The penguin body parts.
    - The emperor penguin habitat
    - How an Emperor penguin survives in the extreme cold weather
    - What it is like to live a day in the life of an Emperor Penguin in Antarctica
    - The Emperor Penguin is the largest of all types penguins
    - Why the Emperor Penguins do not fly
    Next Steps: Extending Inquiry
    - Continue to research and discover new knowledge and inquiries about the emperor
    penguin at home.
    - Create an emperor penguin habitat at home (diorama)

    Books:

    Engagement:

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