Final Project
Judy Nunez
Glendale Adventist Elementary School
Second Grade
Title: iPad Mini-Penguin Unit
Objective: To learn about penguins, practice reading, and make a report
Materials:
Books- Ready Freddy Penguin Problem by Abby Klein available
in paper back or digital copy
(kindle version)
iPad Mini (one for each student)
Computer with Projector
Apps: iMovie, iBooks, pages, edmodo, kindle
Internet access
Lined poster paper
Map or globe
Online sites www.nothingbutpenguins.com
, www.google.com www.kids.nationalgeographic.com www.kidzone.ws/animals/penguins/
www.questionpress.com/nunez
Subjects: Reading, language arts (writing), science, art,
PE, and Social Studies
Lesson
1
What do we know about Penguins?
Make a list of facts- have students tell you what they know
about penguins- make a list on lined poster paper and save for later use.
Reading: Chap. 1 & 2 in Ready Freddy Penguin problems.
(ebook-kindle app or hard copy) After reading have students go to www.questionpress.com/nunez and
answer questions. After the
students have answered the questions put the question up on the screen with the
projector and review correct answers and essay question. Give rewards for top
scores (sometimes a verbal “these kids did great!” is fine). I usually give tickets to those that
got perfect or just one wrong.
Tickets can be used to buy toys at our class store. Acknowledge any kids
that you feel may need to feel that they did a great job.
Science: Make a list of facts learned from chapters 1 &
2 on lined poster paper. Keep out
so it can be added to each day. Compare with first poster of facts they knew
about penguins. Are any the same?
Different? Wrong?
Language arts: Journal about penguins in their journal.
PE: Play penguins and leopard seals (like they did in the
book). A form of tag where “it” is
a leopard seal and the rest that are running away are penguins.
Social Studies: Show a map (or look one up online with iPad)
and show kids where the southern hemisphere is.
Lesson
2
Let’s learn
more about penguins.
Reading:
Chap. 3 & 4 in Ready Freddy Penguin Problem. (iPad). After reading have
students go to www.questionpress.com/nunez on
their iPad to do online quiz.
Repeat the procedure from the previous day.
Science:
Continue to add facts learned from the book onto lined poster.
Language
arts: Do “fix-it’s” in their language arts journal. Language arts journal is where students are given a
paragraph (DOL) with grammatical errors that they need to “find “ and
change. I usually use something
that we have been reading so that it means more to them.
PE:
Continue playing Penguins and leopard seal game.
Lesson
3
Let’s
adopt!
Reading:
Read Chapters 5 & 6 in Ready Freddy Penguin Problem. (iPad) After reading
have students go to www.questionpress.com/nunez
to do online quiz. Repeat
procedure from day one.
Science:
Fill in penguin worksheet (below) found at www.kidzone.ws
PE:
Continue to play Penguin and Leopard seal game.
Language
arts: Journal what it is like to be a penguin
Social
Studies: Go to www.nwf.org or www.defenders.org and decide on an animal for the class to “adopt”. I usually have each child bring in $2
to cover the cost of adopting an
endangered animal.
Art: make a
penguin- you will need black, white, and orange construction paper. Have students trace their shoe on the
black paper (this will be the body) Cut out the body and add a white oval for
the stomach. Fold a piece of black
paper in half. Squeeze fingers
together like praying hands and trace.
Leave t the paper folded and cut out hand shape. You now have two wings. Glue them to the side of the body. Glue two googly eyes onto face. Cut out an orange triangle for the beak
and glue it under the eyes. Cut a 2-inch circle out of orange paper. Cut the circle in half to make two
feet. Glue the feet to the bottom
of the body. Once children have made their penguin then staple it to the
bulletin board for a group picture.
I usually put down white butcher paper over a blue background to look
like a winter scene.
Lesson
4
Let’s pick
our penguin!
Reading:
Read chapters 7 & 8 in Ready Freddy penguin Problem (iPad). After reading
have students go on to www.questionpress.com/nunez
to do online quiz. Repeat procedures from lesson 1.
Science:
Write a list of the 17 different penguin species on the board. Give children time to explore on their
ipads the different ones to find out which one they would like to do a report
on. The best site for penguins is www.nothingbutpenguins.com
is a great site for kids to explore the different penguins. Have each child pick a different
penguin to do a report on.
PE:
Continue to Play Penguin and Leopard
Language
arts: As a group, decide what
questions you would like to cover in your penguin report. I find that most kids come up with
quite a lot of good questions to cover.
Example: Habitat, Name of penguin, country they are found in, what they
eat, main predator, size….
Here is a
sample of the questions my students from last year came up with:
- Name of penguin
2.main predator
3. What does it eat
4. Where does it live
5. Habitat
6. What they look like
7. size
8. Interesting fact
9. another interesting fact
10 Don't forget to put an ending!!!!
Social
Studies: On a map start having the students mark where their penguin is found.
Post map where everyone can see it.
Art:
tongue depressor penguin puppets- Have each student create a stick puppet using
a tongue depressor. They can
either use scrap paper and come up with their own design or you can download a
picture they can cut out, color and glue.
Lesson 5 & 6
Let’s
make a movie!
Using
the questions the students came up with, have children search for answers about
their penguin. Write the answers down in compete sentences. After students have
been check on their writing then they need to go online to look for pictures
for each fact.
Create
a movie in iMovie. Each report should be at least a minimum of 11 slides
long. For example slide
1-
Introduction (either video or picture with words) Penguin report by Judy Nunez
Slide
2- name of penguin
Slide
3- main predator
Slide
4- what does it eat……
Don’t
forget to add music
After
the movie is done (this usually takes around three days) students can then
upload it to www.edmodo.com and turn it into the teacher.
Students
are graded on :
1. Did they cover everything (10 points)
2. Did they spell everything correct (10 points)
3. Did the pictures they pick go with the text (10 points)
4. Did they add music and have an introduction and ending (10 points)
5. Did they turn it in on time. (10 points)
1. Did they cover everything (10 points)
2. Did they spell everything correct (10 points)
3. Did the pictures they pick go with the text (10 points)
4. Did they add music and have an introduction and ending (10 points)
5. Did they turn it in on time. (10 points)
At
the end of the week have a viewing of everyone’s movie. Have popcorn and invite parents to come.
Additional art activities: