K-4 Snowhill Penguins
Bronze level
Published on 12/3/2013
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Learning objectives
- Reading: Informational Text: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.5 Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem...
- Reading: Informational Text: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.9 Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak a...
- Reading: Informational Text: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.5 Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locat...
Created for
Age 7 and below
Ages 8 - 10
Subject
Social Studies
Technology/ICT
Twenty-first century skills
21st Century Skills
Knowledge building & critical thinking
Global awareness & civic literacy
ICT for learning
Problem solving & innovation (creativity)
Required hardware
PC
Instructional approach
Project based learning (PBL)
Independent study
Learning activity details
(It’s Giving Tuesday today, a new holiday tradition that falls on the Tuesday after Black Friday and Cyber Monday. We like to think these two are celebrating their own generosity, perhaps having shared some squid with some of the less fortunate members of their colony on Snow Hill Island. After all, even an Emperor penguin could use a little help now and then. What do you have planned for Giving Tuesday?)
How did the new holiday of Giving Tuesday begin and what is its purpose?
© Paul Souders/Corbis
How did the new holiday of Giving Tuesday begin and what is its purpose?
© Paul Souders/Corbis