Penguin Unit...the Portfolder!

Our penguin unit ends on a high note. Here are a couple photos of my son's final project, his Penguin Portfolder...

Inside view of the double Portfolder:

 View showing Portfolder open from the opposite side...front cover (with white background) and back cover (black background):

The Portfolder contains:

• photos taken throughout the unit along with captions describing the learning process.
• penguin acrostic poetry
• illustration depicting what a penguin looks like above and below water
• a penguin riddle (Guess Who? from Bridges, Math Learning Center-MLC)
• KWL (what do I know/want to know/learned) about penguins
• Antarctica "trip" journal
• map showing where various penguins live
• life cycle cards
• penguin fact book (MLC)
• clue cards for various penguins to sort (MLC)
• suitcase & passport from Antarctica journey (passport, MLC)
• water temperature experiment results (MLC)
• penguin height graph (MLC)
• comparison/contrast chart on various penguins
• descriptive bubbles in which my son describes the learning process for various projects

 We often include a booklist but didn't this time due to space issues.

Although the Portfolder doesn't completely reflect it, we also:

• took a "flight" to Antarctica
• played a penguin Mathwire game with our homemade penguin tokens
• read piles of penguin books, including Mr. Popper's Penguins, and watched several penguin/Antarctica movies
• played with penguins in our homemade penguin habitats
• reviewed the continents and oceans of the world
• "weighed and measured" penguins (MLC)

One additional resource we used in addition to penguin resources previously mentioned includes an excellent DVD, Life in the Freezer, a BBC Video production by David Attenborough.

More on Portfolders.

More on our penguin unit.