We saw the movie happy feet. I already saw this movie at my house however I didn’t realize it had so many facts that we’re learning in science right now. I recommend this movie to a lot of people that want to have a good laugh but also want to learn a couple of new facts based on science. When we saw this movie in science class we took notes and I realized the movie had a lot to do with science. I answered question number one, question number two, and question number five. Here are all my answers to the questions.
Here’s my answer for question number one. The food changed in the penguin’s environment. There was a food shortage for the penguins and there was not enough fish. It is hard for penguins to survive without fish. For almost every living thing it is really hard to survive with only having a really small amount of food. The fish were being taken by the humans or as in the movie the “aliens.” The humans were fishing and as a result the penguins couldn’t eat because all the humans were fishing and taking away the penguins food. This affected the penguins a lot.
Here is my answer for question number two. Organisms are related to their environment. In the movie all of the penguins could sing. All except one, Mumble, the main character could not sing and everybody tried to help but it did not improve his singing. This was because when he was just an egg Mumbles father dropped the egg when he was supposed to hold on to it so Mumble had a disadvantage which was singing. He had to leave his environment because the penguins thought he “just wasn’t penguin” which means he didn’t fit in. He left because he didn’t relate to his environment.
Here is my answer to the fifth question. Humans have an impact on the environment. The penguins did not have enough fish to eat to survive. This was because of the humans. The humans took away there fish by fishing. That was a really big impact on the penguins environment. The humans made it hard for the penguins to survive in their environment. At the end though the humans made another impact on the penguin’s environment because they made it possible for the penguins to still live and have fish and not stuggle to eat. They stopped fishing so the penguins had more fish to eat. Also besides the movie humans have a big impact on the environment. Like… global warming. All humans contributed to global warming and that’s a huge impact on the earth. However humans can stop global warming now.
Over all I really liked the movie because it was also really funny.
We saw the movie happy feet. I already saw this movie at my house however I didn’t realize it had so many facts that we’re learning in science right now. I recommend this movie to a lot of people that want to have a good laugh but also want to learn a couple of new facts based on science. When we saw this movie in science class we took notes and I realized the movie had a lot to do with science. I answered question number one, question number two, and question number five. Here are all my answers to the questions.
Here’s my answer for question number one. The food changed in the penguin’s environment. There was a food shortage for the penguins and there was not enough fish. It is hard for penguins to survive without fish. For almost every living thing it is really hard to survive with only having a really small amount of food. The fish were being taken by the humans or as in the movie the “aliens.” The humans were fishing and as a result the penguins couldn’t eat because all the humans were fishing and taking away the penguins food. This affected the penguins a lot.
Here is my answer for question number two. Organisms are related to their environment. In the movie all of the penguins could sing. All except one, Mumble, the main character could not sing and everybody tried to help but it did not improve his singing. This was because when he was just an egg Mumbles father dropped the egg when he was supposed to hold on to it so Mumble had a disadvantage which was singing. He had to leave his environment because the penguins thought he “just wasn’t penguin” which means he didn’t fit in. He left because he didn’t relate to his environment.
Here is my answer to the fifth question. Humans have an impact on the environment. The penguins did not have enough fish to eat to survive. This was because of the humans. The humans took away there fish by fishing. That was a really big impact on the penguins environment. The humans made it hard for the penguins to survive in their environment. At the end though the humans made another impact on the penguin’s environment because they made it possible for the penguins to still live and have fish and not stuggle to eat. They stopped fishing so the penguins had more fish to eat. Also besides the movie humans have a big impact on the environment. Like… global warming. All humans contributed to global warming and that’s a huge impact on the earth. However humans can stop global warming now.
Over all I really liked the movie because it was also really funny.
Question number 1. What changed in the penguins environment was a food shortage. The effects were that the penguins weren't getting enough fish to eat because of the humans. And the effects were that some of the penguins could of died by starving.
Question number 5. The humans impacted the penguins environment by taking all there fish and starving them to death, because thats the penguins only food.
Question number 6. The different populations relate to one another because they both go down. In the movie the humans take away the penguins food {fish} so thats going down, and if the penguins food goes away they will die so there population goes also.
What changed in the penguin’s environment was the fish depletion. The humans were taking the fish from the Antarctic and from were the penguins lived. We were basically stealing there food.
The penguins relay on the fish to live. The birds relay on the fish and the penguins to live. If the fish disappear the penguins die and when the penguins die the birds die. When the penguins die the seals die (leopard seals). so taking the fish the whole food chain goes whack.
Again when the fish disappear the penguins die. The population of the fish goes down the all the animals that depend on the fish and animals that eat the animals that eat the fish go down.
Also the penguins sing and dance a lot especially at graduation.
The movie Happy Feet is a kid’s movie, but it also has a lot to do with ecology. The movie is about a little penguin, and his food source being ruined by humans. This movie really made me understand about when you do something in a living things environment it affects everything. What happened was the penguin (mumble) had no fish to eat because all of the fish was being taken by humans. This changed the penguin’s environment, and when you change there environment it has a really big affect. Any way, so what happened was all of the penguins had no more fish to eat so they went hungry.
Everything is related to their environment. In this case the penguin mumble eats fish, the fish also live in the environment and they eat other things. So mumble adapted to his environment by eating fish because that’s what he had but now mumble has no fish so he needs to find out a way to change. Mumble responded to this change from having fish to having no fish at all by going to find what had happened and change it.
In the movie it shows how every thing is related to everything else by showing that both the penguins need to be kept with what they need and also how the environment needs to be taken care of. When I heard that the thing around love laces neck was a soda can holder together thingy I realized that in the movie they are trying to say that if you don’t try to help save the world, then poor innocent creatures will die.
Food webs are a way to show how energy is passed from producers (makers), to consumers (eaters).
Humans impact the environment a lot. When humans do anything to anything everything in the environment is affected. When we put the garbage in the oceans imagine how many environments that effect, and when the environments are affected all the animals are to, and after that all of the humans that eat the animals are affected. So basically all us humans are doing is affecting our selves.
The Spanish penguins do thing really differently then the emperor penguins. For example, the Spanish penguins find their mates by collecting pebbles, the emperor penguins sing a song to find there mate.
The movie Happy Feet related to our study of ecology; Happy Feet helped me understand ecology better. In the movie, it explained (technically showed) how everything was related to everything else. It also showed how humans impact the environment. The relations between the two questions above have to do with how the different populations relate to each other in the movie.
Things relate to things by the food chain. The food chains are the social classes of the universe. In Happy Feet, humans were eating too much fish they were taking it away from other creatures below them in the chain, example: birds and penguins. Because of this upset in the food chain the birds in the film had to rely on another source of food, which were the penguins.
In the film, there were about four species affected by the humans (as mumble put it, aliens) during the movie. Two were the Emperor penguins and the Birds. The other two were the seals and the other penguin specie. On one bird there was a yellow bracelet around its leg and around Love Lace’s (penguin) neck there was a plastic can holder. The seal in the movie attacked Mumble and didn’t give up, which was probably because there was no other food (fish.
In many ways population was involved in the mix up of the food chain in Happy Feet. What happened was the people population was growing and there was a higher food demand. Since we took away a lot of fish the other animals below us in the food chain that also fed on fish were starving. The population of penguins would have eventually died out from seals and birds feeding on them.
This is how Happy Feet is related to ecology. <3 <3 :D
In class we saw Happy Feet it was really funny in some parts. i did questions 1 , 2 ,4. Penguins depend on the environment for their food and shelter. Penguins eat fish that come from the ocean and they depend on the ocean for food. They use caves for shelter. They also depend on cold weather to keep them alive. If it gets too hot the ice will melt and they don’t have any where to live. Penguins and other living things fit into the environment by adapting. Penguins and other living things use resources such as water, food and land. I think since penguins can’t fly to migrate so over time they had to get used to the cold weather. Another example of living things fitting into the environment would be monkeys. They have to have to be good climbers to get their food or they would starve. A food web is like a chain, when the chain is broken it changes everything. For example, the penguins eat fish than some fish eat other fish and the small fishes eat plankton. In the movie the penguins were starving because they could not find any fish. There were no fishes because men catch fish and we eat them. If they catch all sizes of fishes most of all the animals, like bears, will starve.
Question 1)The thing that changed in the penguins environment is the drop in the population of fish since the humans came in and started to catch lots and lots of fish in the Antarctic. The result of the change in the population of fish was that the penguins would have much less food to eat. Since the birds ate the mostly fish but sometimes penguins too they would start to turn and to eat the penguins since the there would be much less population of fish.
Question 5) Humans impact on the penguin’s environment when they started to catch all the fish that they could in the Antarctic. Since they were catching all the fish they were impacting the environment since the penguins would end up dying. This would end up changing the ecosystem in the Antarctic since if one thing in the ecosystem changes then so will everything else. The fish will start to disappear since the humans are catching them and the penguins and the birds are eating them. So both the population of the fish and the penguins would end up dropping because of the impact that the humans made on the environment in the Antarctic.
Question 6) The different populations are related to one another since in the movie the population of fish went extremely down since a lot of people were catching them in the Antarctic. This meant that since there were less fish population, that there would not be enough food for the penguins since that was there primary food supply. Since there is much less fish, that means that there a lot of penguins will have nothing to eat or that since the birds in the movie ate fish and penguins they will not find much fish so they will turn and eat the penguins so either way the penguins were in a really bad situation. So there were two things that the penguins could do about this problem. They could either go to another place and find food there or they will end up dying of starvation in the place that they are.
It’s amazing when you see a movie and then don’t realize how good the movie actually is until after the fact. Happy Feet was really good the second time I saw it. It surprised me how factual and real Happy Feet actually was until I saw it for the second time with different eyes. The whole movie is about ecology, which is really appropriate for us to watch now since we are studying ecology.
2) One of the main things that I learned from the movie was that a LOT of different factors related everything to everything else. When the humans felt the need to fish in Antarctica, they fished so much that they took the penguins food away. The penguins started to starve, and had nowhere else to feed from. Then, since other animals also needed the fish, they started to turn on the penguins and eat them. Also, if a penguin egg is dropped in the freezing cold, which could mean that there could be birth defects. They are related to the cold that way.
3) The movie shows the relationships of everything to everything else in many ways. When Lovelace gets the plastic around his neck, it shows that when the humans polluted, it hurt the environment and almost killed some. When Mumble gets dropped when he was just an egg, he turns out to grow up and be “deformed” with the fact that he could tap-dance. They started to starve when the fish were gone, which shows that they need the fish from their environment.
4) Food webs are really important in this movie. Since the penguins need the fish, and the fish are gone, that means that they don’t have any food (you probably know that by now). So then, other birds and predators who went after the fish have to find a new food source. So they decide to turn on the penguins, and start eating them because they don’t have any choice. Other animals also have to eat the penguins (because that’s what they usually do) like killer whales and seals. If they have other animals eating the penguins, then they could go starving without enough penguins!! It’s really a vicious circle if the food web gets disturbed. So basically, it’s very delicate.
Happy Feet Reflection 1. The main thing that changed in the penguin’s environment was the fish disappearing. The penguins thought it was because of Mumble being different, even though it was the “aliens” fault. The effects of the fish disappearing were that the penguins began to starve.
3. The movie shows that everything is related to everything else in many ways. One is the representation of the food chain. It shows how fish that are eaten by penguins, which are eaten by hawks, which are eaten by seals. It also shows that the connection between mumble being different and the fact that as an egg he was dropped. The connection is that as an egg he was dropped and then he wasn’t normal.
5. Humans impact the enviroment in SO many ways. One of the ways is over-fishing, like what Mumble’s colony was starving from. Another way humans impact the enviroment is they dump their trash everywhere, and it gets caught on animals, like Lovelace with the six-pack necklace. Basically they ruin all natural resources they touch.
You never really realize what science is in a movie until you watch it in your science class. Until Mr. Ardito started pointing things out I didn’t believe it was scientific. MaDdScIeNcEgAl94 out! <3
Although I have seen this movie many times before, I have never watched it from a scientific perspective. I see this movie in a totally different way now. I looked at it from new angles, and received a different message than I got the other times I watched this movie. First, what changed in the penguin’s environment? We happened. In this movie, we saw how our trash affects other animals. Lovelace the (fictional) penguin was one of the many animals in the world who have gotten their neck caught in a soda can holder. I can actually relate to this with a story of my own. A couple summers ago, my family and I were up in Cape Cod on vacation. One day, we decided to go on a seal watching tour. We got on a motor boat and sailed all around. We saw groups with tons and tons of seals. And then there was the one, sad seal with the open Frisbee-thing caught around its neck. It was sooo sad. We all knew that that seal would eventually choke to death. Unfortunately, that happens every day. Another thing that we do is use up all of our resources. As we do this, the animals of our Earth are affected, as we learned in ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. Fishing is a major industry in the world. Unfortunately, we are not the only ones who enjoy eating fish. As we saw in the movie, fish are penguin’s main source of energy. And when we eat up all the fish, what’s left for the little birds at the bottom of the Earth? Not much. Not much at all. And that means famine for the penguins. That is how we impact the environment. Of course, there are many other ways we impact the environment. One of them is how rapidly our climate is increasing. All of the pollutants we emit into the atmosphere cause our planet to heat up. And of course, that has major consequences, but I’ll be here all day if I start talking about them. And last, this shows that everything is related to everything else. Humans want the fish, so humans go fishing. Humans take the fish from the oceans, and there are no fish left for other species of animals. Everything is related to everything else, so therefore everything has consequences.
During Science we saw the movie Happy Feet. I was so amazed that not only this was a very funny, but we all learned a ton about ecology. This movie is a great film if you want to learn facts about ecology as a kid because it is a movie a kid would want to see. I answered questions number one, five and three.
1) The food changed in the penguins environment because all of the so called "aliens" were taking the penguin fish. Where the penguins are on the food web, it shows that they eat fish. By the aliens fishing all of the penguins food the fish, the results became that the penguins were being effected by this.
3) The movie shows that everything is related to everything else in many different ways. When Lovelace had the soda can six pack around his neck it showed that the "aliens" were polluting. When Memphis dropped Mumble as an egg he was born with Happy Feet which means he can dance, and was different. This shows that everything is related to everything else.
5) Humans (aliens) have a huge impact on the way that the penguins live. When the humans were taking all of the penguins fish, the penguins were starving. This had a huge impact on the penguins environment. Towards the end of the movie because of the humans not fishing as much, the penguins got back all of their food.
This week we watched the movie Happy Feet. Earlier in the year I watched this movie with my music class for the music, but now, I watched it for science, and I never realized how much ecology facts were mention as a theme throughout the whole movie.
1. In the beginning of the movie, you start to see the penguins beginning to starve from loss of fish. The change in the environment was from the humans taking the penguin’s number one source of food. Without the fish, the penguins would eventually become extinct!!! When Mumble, the main penguin in the movie, was younger, birds approached him wanting to eat him. The birds were on the top of the food chain and the fish were at the bottom while the penguins were stuck in the middle. The penguins eat the fish, and the birds eat the fish as well, but since their fish was being taken away, the birds had to rely on the penguins for food.
3. Everything IS related to everything else and the movie shows just that. The actions that each species does effects other species as well. When the humans began taking the fish from the ocean, there were less and less amounts of food each day. Fish is what the penguins and many other animals eat in the cold to survive. In the movie Mumble also did not fit in with his other penguins, just because he was different and that affected him and all the penguins around him by not being able to sing.
5. Humans play a HUGE part in the destruction and impact of the environment. They over-fish, which are what made Mumble and the penguins, starve. And then there is the polluting that humans do. We throw away stuff subconsciously and it ends up in the ocean and on land. All this pollution hurts animals. Like Lovelace in the movie with the soda six-pack got caught around his neck and strangled him. Our actions affect everyone and everything around us.
The movie Happy Feet was really science related. It was shown throughout the movie in a lot of different ways. I saw this movie once before, but it was good to see it again. Now that we are studying ecology, it’s easier to understand and pops out much more. It shows how we can affect their environment and how everything is related to everything else that happens. In the movie, Mumble found out who was taking their fish. The movie ended with all the penguins dancing and that really hit the spot. 1 - The main reason the penguin’s environment was changing was because the humans were messing with the penguin’s food chain. The fish were their main food supplier. If the fish were taken, the penguins would die of starvation then the birds would die and end it would end up with a chain reaction of death. In the movie, the penguins would show great interest in the fish which shows they probably were needing food. Towards the end, Mumble was washed up and put in a museum. A little girl tapped on the glass of the fake winter land where all different penguins were living for amusement. Mumble was sad, but reacted when the girl tapped on the window. He tapped his feat in his strange way and got the worlds attention. When he was returned to his real homeland, he ended up getting the entire colony to dance in unison and this caught the world’s attention. The world stopped taking the fish and the penguins lived on. 5 - In the movie the humans seemed to have to start to wipe out the penguin environment. They were taking all the fish. In one seen Mumble gets hold of a huge net full of what looks like millions of fish. So, it was the “Aliens”. When an ecosystem is bit at; the population drops. This is what happened to Mumble and the penguins. The humans bit at the arctic ecosystem and the population dropped. Eventually, the great, heroic, hippity–hoppity, penguin found out the real cause of this and danced to get back their food. In the movie, the elders thought it was all because Mumble was different and couldn’t sing. He proved them wrong. 6 – The population of one group can really affect another in all different harsh ways. The penguins were affecting other populations greatly. All the vultures were flying onto the tops of icy peeks looking like they were going to die if the penguins didn’t start to live. This is actually true. The penguins were dying because of their fish shortage. The fish were being taken and the penguins were slowly dying, which affects their predators also. If the things that eat the penguins have no more penguins, they will die to. It is all a sad process of death. The population of most things affects other groups in big ways.
Happy Feet Reflection By Green101 Happy Feet shows how different animals relate to their environment (although their main focus is on penguins). This movie was very helpful to learn things about science and ecology and the way animals reacted to their environment. I answered the questions 1, 5 and 6. For Question 1, what really happened in the penguin’s environment was how the fish population was depleting. That effected the penguin’s reaction to each other and their environment. In Mumble’s case the leaders used the depletion of fish as an excuse to justify his cruelty to Mumble. They also started to become more savage to each other. The penguin’s leaders did not want to break away from tradition even though they were running out of food as I imagine they would in the wild. For Question 5, this has many answers. We were specifically impacting their food supply because we were using all their fish, as seen in the movie we have fixed that problem, but humans impact the environment in many other ways. We pollute the environment and harm animals like Lovelace who got a piece of garbage stuck around his neck. We cause things to happen such as global warming or pollution of natural resources. Not all of our impacts with the environment are bad though, but we still do lots of bad things In Question 6, the different populations I will talk about are the ones we saw in the movie. Populations such as the killer whales (orcas) and the penguins relate to each other through the food chain. The orcas eat the penguins and the orca’s amount of food has probably gone down too since the penguins population has gone down as well. The fish population has depleted as well since we were over-fishing and that affects everything else in a domino pattern. There was a lot to learn in that movie, as seen in my answers to Question’s 1,5 and 6. We were taught a lot about ecology and lots of other kinds of sciences
We watched the movie Happy Feet. I never realized how much it was related to science, even after watching it more than 3 times. I am going to answer questions 1, 2, and 5. Something that changed in the environment is the food chain. The humans (aliens) kept taking the penguin's fish, so the penguins starved. The effect was, they had to find something else to rely on for food. And if they didn't, they would basically die. I think that is was really stupid that they didn't do anything to try to find out why they didn't have any fish. Only Mumble did, and no one wanted to do anything with him. (Except at the end because every PG movie has to have a happy ending.) The penguins were related to their environment. They have lots of fur and feathers to keep its self warm. They also have a very aerodynamic body so they can swim fast, and catch more fish. And they have bellies that they can slide on because they walk to slow they might get really tired. Fish also relate to their environment because they have gills so they can breath underwater, and they have a waterproof skin. (scales) The humans have a HUGE impact of the environment. They are on top of the food chain, and use most of our natural resources. We are in charge of the whole earth, so if something happens to other species, it's basically our fault.
Question # 1. The problem was that the fish started disappearing because the humans wuold take them. It effected the penguens lifestyle and they started to starve and the birds started to eat more penguins, so the food chain got pretty messed up.
Question # 4. A food web is when a small organism get's eaten by a bigger organism, and and then that organism gets eaten by an even bigger organism, etc.
Question # 5. humans effect the enviroment by polluting, eating animals, and sometimes (like in Happy Feet) messing up the food chain. humans also destroy a lot of forests.
I liked the movie because it was funny and made me want to dance.
figdademonWhat changed in the penguins environment was the penguins food level was dangerously low and because the penguins of the penguins food chain getting messes up others animals food chain , and that resulted in the bird trying to eat the penguins and that most likely mess other food chains. The way us humans impact the environment is by taking the fish and messing up animals food chain and making they adapt to a new environment, and in the movie the main penguin adapted to a new environment quickly, i doubt in real life that would happen so quickly or even happen at all. The way that the movie happy feet tells me that everything is related to everything els is showing that by taking fish from the penguins it make the birds try to eat them!
This movie just shows how when Humans intervene in nature it can have drastic effects on other species.
My first question to be answered is the first question. "What changed in the penguins environment and what were the effects?" Well, What happened is the humans began fishing in the antarctic and ended up cutting the fish population in the surrounding ocean down to a very small fraction of what it was. The effect was that the penguins that were Inhabiting that area were slowly starving to death because of the food shortage. It caused some danger for the young penguins, because the meat and fish eating birds in the area had to go back to mostly eating penguins and the little fish they could find. So as well as starving to death the penguins were having their young picked off one by one slowly shortening the population.
The second question is the third one. "How does the movie show that everything is related to everything else?" Start from the beginning. The humans had a fish spree and killed off a lot of fish, the loss of fish effected the birds and made them eat the small penguins which cuts the population of the penguins down by means of prey and starvation. Eventually most of the penguins will die out. When this happens leopard seals will die out as well as the birds and so most of the life will be blotted out just by fishing!!!
The last question to be addressed is the fifth one. "How do humans impact the environment?" WE DO ALMOST EVERYTHING WRONG!!!!!! We have over-populated the world taken most of the resources on it and destroyed species of animals like we almost did the penguins in the movie only sometimes we succeeded. We have trashed the world completely and its all up to us to fix it. (unless you want to trust the penguins with it all and just hand them the problem).
Hi Mr Ardito - I found your blog from a link on classroom 2.0 and I am very impressed by the way you use reflective questions for your students and videos to increase student engagement in science. I also teach year 7 and 9 science - In Victoria, Australia. www.brittgow.globalteacher.org.au
Thanks for your reply - your students may be interested in an interactive food web activity at http://www.gould.org.au/foodwebs/ It's great for interactive whiteboards and includes an Antarctic food web with penguins!
Hi Gerald - I am working from home so I don't have ready access to your email address on this computer. I havwe installed Skype - so if you are online could you let me know your Skype name and I will call you? Thanks for commenting on our "Separating Mixtures" Voicethread - it is work we did last period today. regards, Britt.
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The Happy Feet Reflection
We saw the movie happy feet. I already saw this movie at my house however I didn’t realize it had so many facts that we’re learning in science right now. I recommend this movie to a lot of people that want to have a good laugh but also want to learn a couple of new facts based on science. When we saw this movie in science class we took notes and I realized the movie had a lot to do with science. I answered question number one, question number two, and question number five. Here are all my answers to the questions.
Here’s my answer for question number one. The food changed in the penguin’s environment. There was a food shortage for the penguins and there was not enough fish. It is hard for penguins to survive without fish. For almost every living thing it is really hard to survive with only having a really small amount of food. The fish were being taken by the humans or as in the movie the “aliens.” The humans were fishing and as a result the penguins couldn’t eat because all the humans were fishing and taking away the penguins food. This affected the penguins a lot.
Here is my answer for question number two. Organisms are related to their environment. In the movie all of the penguins could sing. All except one, Mumble, the main character could not sing and everybody tried to help but it did not improve his singing. This was because when he was just an egg Mumbles father dropped the egg when he was supposed to hold on to it so Mumble had a disadvantage which was singing. He had to leave his environment because the penguins thought he “just wasn’t penguin” which means he didn’t fit in. He left because he didn’t relate to his environment.
Here is my answer to the fifth question. Humans have an impact on the environment. The penguins did not have enough fish to eat to survive. This was because of the humans. The humans took away there fish by fishing. That was a really big impact on the penguins environment. The humans made it hard for the penguins to survive in their environment. At the end though the humans made another impact on the penguin’s environment because they made it possible for the penguins to still live and have fish and not stuggle to eat. They stopped fishing so the penguins had more fish to eat. Also besides the movie humans have a big impact on the environment. Like… global warming. All humans contributed to global warming and that’s a huge impact on the earth. However humans can stop global warming now.
Over all I really liked the movie because it was also really funny.
The Happy Feet Reflection
We saw the movie happy feet. I already saw this movie at my house however I didn’t realize it had so many facts that we’re learning in science right now. I recommend this movie to a lot of people that want to have a good laugh but also want to learn a couple of new facts based on science. When we saw this movie in science class we took notes and I realized the movie had a lot to do with science. I answered question number one, question number two, and question number five. Here are all my answers to the questions.
Here’s my answer for question number one. The food changed in the penguin’s environment. There was a food shortage for the penguins and there was not enough fish. It is hard for penguins to survive without fish. For almost every living thing it is really hard to survive with only having a really small amount of food. The fish were being taken by the humans or as in the movie the “aliens.” The humans were fishing and as a result the penguins couldn’t eat because all the humans were fishing and taking away the penguins food. This affected the penguins a lot.
Here is my answer for question number two. Organisms are related to their environment. In the movie all of the penguins could sing. All except one, Mumble, the main character could not sing and everybody tried to help but it did not improve his singing. This was because when he was just an egg Mumbles father dropped the egg when he was supposed to hold on to it so Mumble had a disadvantage which was singing. He had to leave his environment because the penguins thought he “just wasn’t penguin” which means he didn’t fit in. He left because he didn’t relate to his environment.
Here is my answer to the fifth question. Humans have an impact on the environment. The penguins did not have enough fish to eat to survive. This was because of the humans. The humans took away there fish by fishing. That was a really big impact on the penguins environment. The humans made it hard for the penguins to survive in their environment. At the end though the humans made another impact on the penguin’s environment because they made it possible for the penguins to still live and have fish and not stuggle to eat. They stopped fishing so the penguins had more fish to eat. Also besides the movie humans have a big impact on the environment. Like… global warming. All humans contributed to global warming and that’s a huge impact on the earth. However humans can stop global warming now.
Over all I really liked the movie because it was also really funny.
Question number 1. What changed in the penguins environment was a food shortage. The effects were that the penguins weren't getting enough fish to eat because of the humans. And the effects were that some of the penguins could of died by starving.
Question number 5. The humans impacted the penguins environment by taking all there fish and starving them to death, because thats the penguins only food.
Question number 6. The different populations relate to one another because they both go down. In the movie the humans take away the penguins food {fish} so thats going down, and if the penguins food goes away they will die so there population goes also.
What changed in the penguin’s environment was the fish depletion. The humans were taking the fish from the Antarctic and from were the penguins lived. We were basically stealing there food.
The penguins relay on the fish to live. The birds relay on the fish and the penguins to live. If the fish disappear the penguins die and when the penguins die the birds die. When the penguins die the seals die (leopard seals). so taking the fish the whole food chain goes whack.
Again when the fish disappear the penguins die. The population of the fish goes down the all the animals that depend on the fish and animals that eat the animals that eat the fish go down.
Also the penguins sing and dance a lot especially at graduation.
The movie Happy Feet is a kid’s movie, but it also has a lot to do with ecology. The movie is about a little penguin, and his food source being ruined by humans. This movie really made me understand about when you do something in a living things environment it affects everything. What happened was the penguin (mumble) had no fish to eat because all of the fish was being taken by humans. This changed the penguin’s environment, and when you change there environment it has a really big affect. Any way, so what happened was all of the penguins had no more fish to eat so they went hungry.
Everything is related to their environment. In this case the penguin mumble eats fish, the fish also live in the environment and they eat other things. So mumble adapted to his environment by eating fish because that’s what he had but now mumble has no fish so he needs to find out a way to change. Mumble responded to this change from having fish to having no fish at all by going to find what had happened and change it.
In the movie it shows how every thing is related to everything else by showing that both the penguins need to be kept with what they need and also how the environment needs to be taken care of. When I heard that the thing around love laces neck was a soda can holder together thingy I realized that in the movie they are trying to say that if you don’t try to help save the world, then poor innocent creatures will die.
Food webs are a way to show how energy is passed from producers (makers), to consumers (eaters).
Humans impact the environment a lot. When humans do anything to anything everything in the environment is affected. When we put the garbage in the oceans imagine how many environments that effect, and when the environments are affected all the animals are to, and after that all of the humans that eat the animals are affected. So basically all us humans are doing is affecting our selves.
The Spanish penguins do thing really differently then the emperor penguins. For example, the Spanish penguins find their mates by collecting pebbles, the emperor penguins sing a song to find there mate.
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HAPPY FEET
The movie Happy Feet related to our study of ecology; Happy Feet helped me understand ecology better. In the movie, it explained (technically showed) how everything was related to everything else. It also showed how humans impact the environment. The relations between the two questions above have to do with how the different populations relate to each other in the movie.
Things relate to things by the food chain. The food chains are the social classes of the universe. In Happy Feet, humans were eating too much fish they were taking it away from other creatures below them in the chain, example: birds and penguins. Because of this upset in the food chain the birds in the film had to rely on another source of food, which were the penguins.
In the film, there were about four species affected by the humans (as mumble put it, aliens) during the movie. Two were the Emperor penguins and the Birds. The other two were the seals and the other penguin specie. On one bird there was a yellow bracelet around its leg and around Love Lace’s (penguin) neck there was a plastic can holder. The seal in the movie attacked Mumble and didn’t give up, which was probably because there was no other food (fish.
In many ways population was involved in the mix up of the food chain in Happy Feet. What happened was the people population was growing and there was a higher food demand. Since we took away a lot of fish the other animals below us in the food chain that also fed on fish were starving. The population of penguins would have eventually died out from seals and birds feeding on them.
This is how Happy Feet is related to ecology. <3 <3 :D
In class we saw Happy Feet it was really funny in some parts.
i did questions 1 , 2 ,4.
Penguins depend on the environment for their food and shelter. Penguins eat fish that come from the ocean and they depend on the ocean for food. They use caves for shelter. They also depend on cold weather to keep them alive. If it gets too hot the ice will melt and they don’t have any where to live.
Penguins and other living things fit into the environment by adapting. Penguins and other living things use resources such as water, food and land. I think since penguins can’t fly to migrate so over time they had to get used to the cold weather. Another example of living things fitting into the environment would be monkeys. They have to have to be good climbers to get their food or they would starve.
A food web is like a chain, when the chain is broken it changes everything. For example, the penguins eat fish than some fish eat other fish and the small fishes eat plankton. In the movie the penguins were starving because they could not find any fish. There were no fishes because men catch fish and we eat them. If they catch all sizes of fishes most of all the animals, like bears, will starve.
Question 1)The thing that changed in the penguins environment is the drop in the population of fish since the humans came in and started to catch lots and lots of fish in the Antarctic. The result of the change in the population of fish was that the penguins would have much less food to eat. Since the birds ate the mostly fish but sometimes penguins too they would start to turn and to eat the penguins since the there would be much less population of fish.
Question 5) Humans impact on the penguin’s environment when they started to catch all the fish that they could in the Antarctic. Since they were catching all the fish they were impacting the environment since the penguins would end up dying. This would end up changing the ecosystem in the Antarctic since if one thing in the ecosystem changes then so will everything else. The fish will start to disappear since the humans are catching them and the penguins and the birds are eating them. So both the population of the fish and the penguins would end up dropping because of the impact that the humans made on the environment in the Antarctic.
Question 6) The different populations are related to one another since in the movie the population of fish went extremely down since a lot of people were catching them in the Antarctic. This meant that since there were less fish population, that there would not be enough food for the penguins since that was there primary food supply. Since there is much less fish, that means that there a lot of penguins will have nothing to eat or that since the birds in the movie ate fish and penguins they will not find much fish so they will turn and eat the penguins so either way the penguins were in a really bad situation. So there were two things that the penguins could do about this problem. They could either go to another place and find food there or they will end up dying of starvation in the place that they are.
Happy Feet
It’s amazing when you see a movie and then don’t realize how good the movie actually is until after the fact. Happy Feet was really good the second time I saw it. It surprised me how factual and real Happy Feet actually was until I saw it for the second time with different eyes. The whole movie is about ecology, which is really appropriate for us to watch now since we are studying ecology.
2) One of the main things that I learned from the movie was that a LOT of different factors related everything to everything else. When the humans felt the need to fish in Antarctica, they fished so much that they took the penguins food away. The penguins started to starve, and had nowhere else to feed from. Then, since other animals also needed the fish, they started to turn on the penguins and eat them. Also, if a penguin egg is dropped in the freezing cold, which could mean that there could be birth defects. They are related to the cold that way.
3) The movie shows the relationships of everything to everything else in many ways. When Lovelace gets the plastic around his neck, it shows that when the humans polluted, it hurt the environment and almost killed some. When Mumble gets dropped when he was just an egg, he turns out to grow up and be “deformed” with the fact that he could tap-dance. They started to starve when the fish were gone, which shows that they need the fish from their environment.
4) Food webs are really important in this movie. Since the penguins need the fish, and the fish are gone, that means that they don’t have any food (you probably know that by now). So then, other birds and predators who went after the fish have to find a new food source. So they decide to turn on the penguins, and start eating them because they don’t have any choice. Other animals also have to eat the penguins (because that’s what they usually do) like killer whales and seals. If they have other animals eating the penguins, then they could go starving without enough penguins!! It’s really a vicious circle if the food web gets disturbed. So basically, it’s very delicate.
Happy Feet Reflection
1. The main thing that changed in the penguin’s environment was the fish disappearing.
The penguins thought it was because of Mumble being different, even though it was the “aliens” fault. The effects of the fish disappearing were that the penguins began to starve.
3. The movie shows that everything is related to everything else in many ways. One is the representation of the food chain. It shows how fish that are eaten by penguins, which are eaten by hawks, which are eaten by seals. It also shows that the connection between mumble being different and the fact that as an egg he was dropped. The connection is that as an egg he was dropped and then he wasn’t normal.
5. Humans impact the enviroment in SO many ways. One of the ways is over-fishing, like what Mumble’s colony was starving from. Another way humans impact the enviroment is they dump their trash everywhere, and it gets caught on animals, like Lovelace with the six-pack necklace. Basically they ruin all natural resources they touch.
You never really realize what science is in a movie until you watch it in your science class. Until Mr. Ardito started pointing things out I didn’t believe it was scientific.
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Although I have seen this movie many times before, I have never watched it from a scientific perspective. I see this movie in a totally different way now. I looked at it from new angles, and received a different message than I got the other times I watched this movie.
First, what changed in the penguin’s environment? We happened. In this movie, we saw how our trash affects other animals. Lovelace the (fictional) penguin was one of the many animals in the world who have gotten their neck caught in a soda can holder. I can actually relate to this with a story of my own. A couple summers ago, my family and I were up in Cape Cod on vacation. One day, we decided to go on a seal watching tour. We got on a motor boat and sailed all around. We saw groups with tons and tons of seals. And then there was the one, sad seal with the open Frisbee-thing caught around its neck. It was sooo sad. We all knew that that seal would eventually choke to death. Unfortunately, that happens every day. Another thing that we do is use up all of our resources. As we do this, the animals of our Earth are affected, as we learned in ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. Fishing is a major industry in the world. Unfortunately, we are not the only ones who enjoy eating fish. As we saw in the movie, fish are penguin’s main source of energy. And when we eat up all the fish, what’s left for the little birds at the bottom of the Earth? Not much. Not much at all. And that means famine for the penguins. That is how we impact the environment. Of course, there are many other ways we impact the environment. One of them is how rapidly our climate is increasing. All of the pollutants we emit into the atmosphere cause our planet to heat up. And of course, that has major consequences, but I’ll be here all day if I start talking about them. And last, this shows that everything is related to everything else. Humans want the fish, so humans go fishing. Humans take the fish from the oceans, and there are no fish left for other species of animals. Everything is related to everything else, so therefore everything has consequences.
Happy Feet Reflection
During Science we saw the movie Happy Feet. I was so amazed that not only this was a very funny, but we all learned a ton about ecology. This movie is a great film if you want to learn facts about ecology as a kid because it is a movie a kid would want to see. I answered questions number one, five and three.
1) The food changed in the penguins environment because all of the so called "aliens" were taking the penguin fish. Where the penguins are on the food web, it shows that they eat fish. By the aliens fishing all of the penguins food the fish, the results became that the penguins were being effected by this.
3) The movie shows that everything is related to everything else in many different ways. When Lovelace had the soda can six pack around his neck it showed that the "aliens" were polluting. When Memphis dropped Mumble as an egg he was born with Happy Feet which means he can dance, and was different. This shows that everything is related to everything else.
5) Humans (aliens) have a huge impact on the way that the penguins live. When the humans were taking all of the penguins fish, the penguins were starving. This had a huge impact on the penguins environment. Towards the end of the movie because of the humans not fishing as much, the penguins got back all of their food.
This is how HAPPY FEET relates to ecology
By Whitestripe
The Happy Feet Reflection
This week we watched the movie Happy Feet. Earlier in the year I watched this movie with my music class for the music, but now, I watched it for science, and I never realized how much ecology facts were mention as a theme throughout the whole movie.
1. In the beginning of the movie, you start to see the penguins beginning to starve from loss of fish. The change in the environment was from the humans taking the penguin’s number one source of food. Without the fish, the penguins would eventually become extinct!!! When Mumble, the main penguin in the movie, was younger, birds approached him wanting to eat him. The birds were on the top of the food chain and the fish were at the bottom while the penguins were stuck in the middle. The penguins eat the fish, and the birds eat the fish as well, but since their fish was being taken away, the birds had to rely on the penguins for food.
3. Everything IS related to everything else and the movie shows just that. The actions that each species does effects other species as well. When the humans began taking the fish from the ocean, there were less and less amounts of food each day. Fish is what the penguins and many other animals eat in the cold to survive. In the movie Mumble also did not fit in with his other penguins, just because he was different and that affected him and all the penguins around him by not being able to sing.
5. Humans play a HUGE part in the destruction and impact of the environment. They over-fish, which are what made Mumble and the penguins, starve. And then there is the polluting that humans do. We throw away stuff subconsciously and it ends up in the ocean and on land. All this pollution hurts animals. Like Lovelace in the movie with the soda six-pack got caught around his neck and strangled him. Our actions affect everyone and everything around us.
The movie Happy Feet was really science related. It was shown throughout the movie in a lot of different ways. I saw this movie once before, but it was good to see it again. Now that we are studying ecology, it’s easier to understand and pops out much more. It shows how we can affect their environment and how everything is related to everything else that happens. In the movie, Mumble found out who was taking their fish. The movie ended with all the penguins dancing and that really hit the spot.
1 - The main reason the penguin’s environment was changing was because the humans were messing with the penguin’s food chain. The fish were their main food supplier. If the fish were taken, the penguins would die of starvation then the birds would die and end it would end up with a chain reaction of death. In the movie, the penguins would show great interest in the fish which shows they probably were needing food. Towards the end, Mumble was washed up and put in a museum. A little girl tapped on the glass of the fake winter land where all different penguins were living for amusement. Mumble was sad, but reacted when the girl tapped on the window. He tapped his feat in his strange way and got the worlds attention. When he was returned to his real homeland, he ended up getting the entire colony to dance in unison and this caught the world’s attention. The world stopped taking the fish and the penguins lived on.
5 - In the movie the humans seemed to have to start to wipe out the penguin environment. They were taking all the fish. In one seen Mumble gets hold of a huge net full of what looks like millions of fish. So, it was the “Aliens”. When an ecosystem is bit at; the population drops. This is what happened to Mumble and the penguins. The humans bit at the arctic ecosystem and the population dropped. Eventually, the great, heroic, hippity–hoppity, penguin found out the real cause of this and danced to get back their food. In the movie, the elders thought it was all because Mumble was different and couldn’t sing. He proved them wrong.
6 – The population of one group can really affect another in all different harsh ways. The penguins were affecting other populations greatly. All the vultures were flying onto the tops of icy peeks looking like they were going to die if the penguins didn’t start to live. This is actually true. The penguins were dying because of their fish shortage. The fish were being taken and the penguins were slowly dying, which affects their predators also. If the things that eat the penguins have no more penguins, they will die to. It is all a sad process of death. The population of most things affects other groups in big ways.
Happy Feet Reflection
By Green101
Happy Feet shows how different animals relate to their environment (although their main focus is on penguins). This movie was very helpful to learn things about science and ecology and the way animals reacted to their environment. I answered the questions 1, 5 and 6.
For Question 1, what really happened in the penguin’s environment was how the fish population was depleting. That effected the penguin’s reaction to each other and their environment. In Mumble’s case the leaders used the depletion of fish as an excuse to justify his cruelty to Mumble. They also started to become more savage to each other. The penguin’s leaders did not want to break away from tradition even though they were running out of food as I imagine they would in the wild.
For Question 5, this has many answers. We were specifically impacting their food supply because we were using all their fish, as seen in the movie we have fixed that problem, but humans impact the environment in many other ways. We pollute the environment and harm animals like Lovelace who got a piece of garbage stuck around his neck. We cause things to happen such as global warming or pollution of natural resources. Not all of our impacts with the environment are bad though, but we still do lots of bad things
In Question 6, the different populations I will talk about are the ones we saw in the movie. Populations such as the killer whales (orcas) and the penguins relate to each other through the food chain. The orcas eat the penguins and the orca’s amount of food has probably gone down too since the penguins population has gone down as well. The fish population has depleted as well since we were over-fishing and that affects everything else in a domino pattern.
There was a lot to learn in that movie, as seen in my answers to Question’s 1,5 and 6. We were taught a lot about ecology and lots of other kinds of sciences
We watched the movie Happy Feet. I never realized how much it was related to science, even after watching it more than 3 times. I am going to answer questions 1, 2, and 5.
Something that changed in the environment is the food chain. The humans (aliens) kept taking the penguin's fish, so the penguins starved. The effect was, they had to find something else to rely on for food. And if they didn't, they would basically die. I think that is was really stupid that they didn't do anything to try to find out why they didn't have any fish. Only Mumble did, and no one wanted to do anything with him. (Except at the end because every PG movie has to have a happy ending.)
The penguins were related to their environment. They have lots of fur and feathers to keep its self warm. They also have a very aerodynamic body so they can swim fast, and catch more fish. And they have bellies that they can slide on because they walk to slow they might get really tired. Fish also relate to their environment because they have gills so they can breath underwater, and they have a waterproof skin. (scales)
The humans have a HUGE impact of the environment. They are on top of the food chain, and use most of our natural resources. We are in charge of the whole earth, so if something happens to other species, it's basically our fault.
-Pie82
Reflection on Happy Feet.
Question # 1. The problem was that the fish started disappearing because the humans wuold take them. It effected the penguens lifestyle and they started to starve and the birds started to eat more penguins, so the food chain got pretty messed up.
Question # 4. A food web is when a small organism get's eaten by a bigger organism, and and then that organism gets eaten by an even bigger organism, etc.
Question # 5. humans effect the enviroment by polluting, eating animals, and sometimes (like in Happy Feet) messing up the food chain. humans also destroy a lot of forests.
I liked the movie because it was funny and made me want to dance.
figdademonWhat changed in the penguins environment was the penguins food level was dangerously low and because the penguins of the penguins food chain getting messes up others animals food chain , and that resulted in the bird trying to eat the penguins and that most likely mess other food chains.
The way us humans impact the environment is by taking the fish and messing up animals food chain and making they adapt to a new environment, and in the movie the main penguin adapted to a new environment quickly, i doubt in real life that would happen so quickly or even happen at all.
The way that the movie happy feet tells me that everything is related to everything els is showing that by taking fish from the penguins it make the birds try to eat them!
My happy feet reflection.
This movie just shows how when Humans intervene in nature it can have drastic effects on other species.
My first question to be answered is the first question.
"What changed in the penguins environment and what were the effects?"
Well, What happened is the humans began fishing in the antarctic and ended up cutting the fish population in the surrounding ocean down to a very small fraction of what it was. The effect was that the penguins that were Inhabiting that area were slowly starving to death because of the food shortage. It caused some danger for the young penguins, because the meat and fish eating birds in the area had to go back to mostly eating penguins and the little fish they could find. So as well as starving to death the penguins were having their young picked off one by one slowly shortening the population.
The second question is the third one.
"How does the movie show that everything is related to everything else?"
Start from the beginning. The humans had a fish spree and killed off a lot of fish, the loss of fish effected the birds and made them eat the small penguins which cuts the population of the penguins down by means of prey and starvation. Eventually most of the penguins will die out. When this happens leopard seals will die out as well as the birds and so most of the life will be blotted out just by fishing!!!
The last question to be addressed is the fifth one.
"How do humans impact the environment?"
WE DO ALMOST EVERYTHING WRONG!!!!!!
We have over-populated the world taken most of the resources on it and destroyed species of animals like we almost did the penguins in the movie only sometimes we succeeded. We have trashed the world completely and its all up to us to fix it. (unless you want to trust the penguins with it all and just hand them the problem).
Hi Mr Ardito - I found your blog from a link on classroom 2.0 and I am very impressed by the way you use reflective questions for your students and videos to increase student engagement in science. I also teach year 7 and 9 science - In Victoria, Australia.
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Thanks for your reply - your students may be interested in an interactive food web activity at http://www.gould.org.au/foodwebs/
It's great for interactive whiteboards and includes an Antarctic food web with penguins!
Hi Gerald - I am working from home so I don't have ready access to your email address on this computer. I havwe installed Skype - so if you are online could you let me know your Skype name and I will call you? Thanks for commenting on our "Separating Mixtures" Voicethread - it is work we did last period today. regards, Britt.
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