Discovery Education
Sonar & Echolocation
A well-designed, comprehensive, and attractive slide show supports direct instruction on how sonar and echolocation work. Contained within the slides are links to interactive websites and instructions for using apps on a mobile device to...
Curated OER
Plumbing the Deep-Using Sound Waves to See
Young scholars explore and learn about the concept of echolocation. In this echolocation instructional activity, students explore how animals and engineers use echolocation (seeing under water) and sound waves to look and hear things...
Curated OER
Whale Echolocation
Young scholars demonstrate how a whale uses echolocation to track food and identify one other animal that also uses echolocation. For this echolocation lesson, students play a game where one child (the whale) is blindfolded and gives a...
Curated OER
Math in Science-Sound Reasoning
For this basic math skills worksheet, students use division, decimals and multiplication to calculate the speed of sound in water and compare it to the speed in air. They calculate distances sound travels in water and the time it takes...
Curated OER
Dolphins or Sharks?
For this dolphins and sharks comparison worksheet, students complete a web on each animal and choose from a list the attributes that fit each one. Students create a poster promoting conservation of our ocean friends.
Reed Novel Studies
Dolphins of the World
Pair a novel study of Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell with a presentation on dolphins. The 37-slide PowerPoint shows different types of dolphins all around the world, includes a brief description of each, and provides a photo...
Curated OER
Echo Location
Students participate in a role-playing activity that demonstrates how whales use sound as an adaptation to their environment.
Curated OER
Whales and Dolphins Multiple Choice Quiz
In this multiple choice quiz worksheet, 7th graders answer 10 questions based on the book, Whales and Dolphins by Susanna Davidson.
Discovery Education
Animal Planet: Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin
This site provides information about the Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin including what they eat and how they find food using a process called echolocation.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Dolphins
Kids learn how dolphins eat, sleep, and live together. Bottlenose dolphins and orcas travel the ocean in pods.
NOAA
Noaa: Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises (Order Cetacea)
Learn about the over 70 species of Cetaceans, or whales, dolphins, and porpoises in the ocean. Read about their behaviors, strandings, and their special sense: echolocation
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Plumbing the Deep: Using Sound Waves to See
In this lesson plan, students learn about echolocation: what it is and how engineers use it to "see" things in the dark, or deep underwater. Also, they learn how animals use echolocation to catch their dinner and travel the ocean waters...
Scholastic
Scholastic: All About Dolphins
Dolphin expert Dan Odell answers basic questions about dolphins and their lives.
Other
The Dolphin Institute: For Kids!
Great interactive site for elementary and middle school students. Learn about the order cetaceans, mysticetes, odontocetes, (baleen whales and toothed whales) and bottlenose dolphins. Then play some interactive games after learning about...
Other
The Dolphin Place
If you're interested in dolphins, then you've come to the right place! Get great information that covers intelligence, physiology, and communication of the dolphin. There are even links to pictures and other sites that contain...