Emperor Penguin Adaptation

We have been learning about how well penguins are suited to living in the Antarctic and how their bodies and behaviour are adapted to help them survive. Together with the children in Room 15 we experimented with standing on our own and then in a huddle, to see why the Emperor Penguins do this during the long Antarctic winter! Then we experienced what it might be like if we had a thick layer of blubber like the penguins do, by putting our hands in a bucket of ice- one hand covered in "blubber" and one hand without! Lastly we did an experiment with hot water and test tubes to see how the temperature of a single penguin would fall much faster than the temperature of penguins in a huddle.