1. Teacher Guide
This lesson is designed to teach kids to ask a critical thinking question that you can’t just put into a search box to solve. To do that, we encourage them with smaller questions that search can help them answer. Make sure that you read the notes for each slide: they not only give you teaching tips but also provide answers and hints so you can help the kids if they are having trouble.
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Alice Keeler is a mother of 5 and a teacher in Fresno, California. She has her B.A in Mathematics, M.S. in Educational Media Design and Technology and is currently working on a doctorate in Educational Technology with an emphasis in games and simulations. EdTech speaker, blogger, and presenter. Founder of coffeeEDU, a 1 hour conference event for educators. New Media Consortium Horizon report advisory panel member. High school math teacher for 14 years. Currently teaching pre-service teachers curriculum, instruction and technology at California State University Fresno. Teaches online for Fresno Pacific University in the Masters in Educational Technology. Passionate that kids are not failures, researches gamification in education to increase student motivation.
This lesson is designed to teach the Common Core State Standard: English Language Arts
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W A Introduce a topic; organize complex ideas, concepts, and information so that each new element builds on that which precedes it to create a unified whole; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.

2. Create a presentation on the effect of climate change on penguins
© Jan Vermeer/Minden Pictures
Having this up as kids come in is a great settle down activity. You can start class by asking them for thoughts about the picture or about ideas on how they could solve the question of the day.

3. Create a presentation on the effect of climate change on penguins
Five to six months after they hatch, emperor penguin chicks will have molted to lose their fluffy chick down and begin to take on the more traditional “tuxedo” coat seen on adult penguins. Once fully grown, they’re the largest penguin species -- the tallest males can reach nearly 4 feet and weighing 80 pounds or more.
Depending on time, you can either have students read this silently to themselves, have one of them read out loud, or read it out loud yourself.

4. Create a presentation on the effect of climate change on penguins1
Office 365
Create a PowerPoint presentation and choose an appropriate theme for your presentation. 2
Video Search
Locate a video about penguins affected by climate change and link to it in the PowerPoint presentation. 3
Image Search
Choose Creative Commons images of penguins for your presentation and properly cite the images. 4
Web Search
Locate scholarly articles addressing climate change and penguins. Determine the essential information to include in your presentation 5
Include a chart or table in the presentation to help bring clarity to the issue of climate change.
There are a couple of ways to use this slide, depending on how much technology you have in your classroom. You can have students find answers on their own, divide them into teams to have them do all the questions competitively, or have each team find the answer to a different question and then come back together. If you’re doing teams, it is often wise to assign them roles (one person typing, one person who is in charge of sharing back the answer, etc.)

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Minutes
You can adjust this based on how much time you want to give kids. If a group isn’t able to answer in 5 minutes, you can give them the opportunity to update at the end of class or extend time.

6. Create a presentation on the effect of climate change on penguins1
Office 365
Create a PowerPoint presentation and choose an appropriate theme for your presentation. 2
Video Search
Locate a video about penguins affected by climate change and link to it in the PowerPoint presentation. 3
Image Search
Choose Creative Commons images of penguins for your presentation and properly cite the images. 4
Web Search
Locate scholarly articles addressing climate change and penguins. Determine the essential information to include in your presentation 5
Include a chart or table in the presentation to help bring clarity to the issue of climate change.
You can ask the students verbally or let one of them come up and insert the answer or show how they got it. This way, you also have a record that you can keep as a class and share with parents, others.

7. Create a presentation on the effect of climate change on penguins1
Office 365
Create a PowerPoint presentation and choose an appropriate theme for your presentation.
(Possible Search Queries: PowerPoint themes online )
Sources
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8. Create a presentation on the effect of climate change on penguins2
Video Search
Locate a video about penguins affected by climate change and link to it in the PowerPoint presentation.
(Possible Search Queries: Penguins climate change)
Sources
VIDEO -
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Image Search
Choose Creative Commons images of penguins for your presentation and properly cite the images.
(Possible Search Queries: penguins)
Sources
Flickr -
How to use and cite creative commons -

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Web Search
Locate scholarly articles addressing climate change and penguins. Determine the essential information to include in your presentation
(Possible Search Queries: climate change effect on penguins)
Sources
International Weekly Journal of Science - Emperor penguins and climate change -
Nature Journal -

11. Create a presentation on the effect of climate change on penguins5
Office 365
Include a chart or table in the presentation to help bring clarity to the issue of climate change.
(Possible Search Queries: climate change, climate change penguin quorilation)
Sources

12. Create a presentation on the effect of climate change on penguins
This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.