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Challenge: Design a Martian

Highland Elementary School, Bend, Oregon,
Ms. Cofer's Science – Porgwin

Looks: The Porgwin is a penguin with a polar bear head. It has a narwhal nose, and beaver teeth. The penguin has a seal tail and a shark fin. It has longer winds than a penguin so it can fly.

Attitude: It is curious, and loves to wander. It finds meat or food and can turn vicious.

Food: Meat or other plant eating animals.

It breathes carbon dioxide.

Special Parts:

  • Horn: used for digging, fighting, killing for food, and for cutting ice.
  • Wings: used for hitting, flying, has very sharp, blade feathers, can create a windstorm to escape.
  • Seal Tail: used for slapping, swimming, balancing, and communicating.
  • Shark Fin: used for shade, and swimming.
  • Beaver Teeth: used to eat, crack rocks, and chop
  • Feet: used for sliding.

student drawing of martian

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