Count and record the number of food items collected and their energy point equivalents. Debrief findings in the first round of play. Repeat the activity, and record the results. One species, the Galapagos penguin, lives on the equator in the path of the cold Peru Current. Seven kinds of penguins visit Antarctica, but only two species, the Adelie and Emperor penguins, breed exclusively on the Antarctic continent.
Penguins are the only birds that migrate by swimming.
Students can research and map their migration routes, up the west coast of South America to Tetal Point in northern Chile, or up to the east coast of South America past Argentina as far north as Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Estimate the distances they travel. Using satellite images located on-line, students can match the migratory routes of penguins with the location of currents. Learn how Great Auks were similar to penguins. These birds became extinct in 1844 when two museum collectors landed on a remote island off Iceland, strangled the last surviving pair for their collection and then smashed the last egg.