Distance Learning : Critters in the Cold

Learn about animal adaptations to extreme weather with hands-on experiments and even take a virtual trip to very cold parts of the world. Turn on imaginations as we learn how animals, such as penguins, live and have babies during extreme weather.

• Grade level: K – 2
• Program length: 45 minutes
• Cost: $125
• Available: 1/5/09 – 3/31/09

To make your program an enjoyable and memorable experience please be sure to review the Videoconferencing Tips (44K PDF). Schedule your Distance Learning Program today!

U.S. National Curriculum Standards

NS.A Science as Inquiry

• abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
• understanding about scientific inquiry

NS.C Life Sciences

• characteristics of organisms
• life cycles of organisms
• organisms and environments

Michigan Grade Level Content Expectations, Science, 2007

• Identify that living things have basic needs. (L.OL.00.11)
• Identify the needs of animals. (L.OL.01.13)
• Describe the life cycle of animals including the following stages: egg, young, adult. (L.OL.01.21)
• Identify characteristics (for example: body coverings, beak shape, number of legs, body parts) that are passed on from parents to young. (L.HE.01.11)
• Make purposeful observation of the natural world using the appropriate senses. (S.IP.02.11)