Live from Antarctica with Time for Kids!

We enjoyed a live broadcast from Antarctica with Jean Pennycook, National Science Foundation penguin researcher. One of my fourth grade classes wrote questions about things that they wanted to know about life in Antarctica. We learned alot!
To register for the webinar, I had to enter a question that my students wanted to know.
One of my 1st grade classes asked if plants grow on Antarctica. She went into great detail and answered, that there is no plant life that grows on Antarctica. Animals rely on the water for food.
Without plants there are no insects. My first reaction: No mosquitoes!

Scientist Jean Pennycook

At different times throughout the broadcast 2,000 schools were logged in. 

Notice Hidden Valley's name.

Baby penguin shedding it's last bit of baby fur.

Scientist Jean Pennycook camps in a tent for days and observes the Adelie Penguin behavior.



To watch a free, live webcast from the icy continent, ask your teacher to join the TFK community at edweb.net/tfk. Then tune in at 1 p.m. ET as National Science Foundation penguin researcher Jean Pennycook chats about her work. Learn about Antarctica attimeforkids.com/antarcticatfk.