Distance Learning : Critters in the Cold

Students will learn about animal adaptations to extreme weather with hands-on experiments and even take a virtual trip to Antarctica. Join us 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: 1/6/10 – 3/31/10

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.K-4.1 Science as Inquiry

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

NS.K-4.3 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)