The Antarctica Penguins Expedition - The Ocean Adventure

What is it like to live, survive and thrive in an eternally frozen land of ice and snow? In this presentation we have your students join us as we search for and interact with everyone’s favorite flightless birds — PENGUINS! A look at penguin biology and behavior and Antarctica Penguins in particular. Here we bring our many years of eye-to-eye Antarctica encounters with penguins to life with this exciting, action-packed marine science adventure! The program begins with an introduction to the Antarctic and penguins in particular. Students are chosen from the audience to demonstrate and compare how Antarctic explorers and Antarctic penguins are adapted to the harsh Antarctic environment to survive. Specimens and models, and life-sized penguin replicas are used to show to we identify different penguin species and help demonstrate the unique biology of penguins. After the demonstrations, Antarctic explorers and guides, Wayne and Karen Brown, then take your students on their thrilling adventure in search of penguins around the frigid White Continent — Antarctica, via an exciting and fast-paced, digital 4K video presentation. In this 4K video presentation your students join the Browns on their expedition ship in the “Most Southerly City in the World”, Ushuaia, Argentina. As they accompany Wayne and Karen on the expedition in search of Penguins your students meet animals, such as krill, sea birds, seals and whales, that are part of the Antarctic ecosystem and learn how these animals relate to penguins as part of the Antarctic food chain. After the multi-image presentation, your students come literally face-to-face with all four of the penguin species we have visited on our expedition when they meet our four life-sized Antarctic penguins – an Adelie Penguin and its chick, a Chinstrap Penguin, a Gentoo Penguin and its chick, and a King Penguin and its chick. If time allows, at the end of the presentation, a brief time is set aside for your students’ questions and answers. NOTE: THE OCEAN ADVENTURE is more than just a live presentation. Our nationally-acclaimed school assembly programs are designed to complement school curricula. Each themed program teaches science concepts established by State and National Science Content Standards. Included teacher’s curriculum guide and student workbook provides lots of hands-on, cross-curricular classroom activities to help teach everything from geography and social studies to science and fine arts.