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Curated OER

Become a Marine Biologist for the Day

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students brainstorm different ways to track whales, dolphins, and propoises as a class. In groups, they discuss the positives and negatives of each method. After watching a video, they identify the characteristics of cetacean species...
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Curated OER

Planetary Web Of Life

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Learners watch a video about the death of a whale. They explore the possible reasons for a marine mammal's death and discuss the importance of its death to our own lives and survival.
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Curated OER

Why the Whales Came- The Beach

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this why the whales came worksheet, students add adjectives and adverbs to a paragraph about nature. Students fill in twelve adjectives or adverbs from given words and then write sentences of their own.
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Curated OER

"Be the Kiwi" - Maori Oral Tradition and Performance

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students create a story similar to those of the Maori oral tradition.  In this Whale Rider instructional activity, students discuss the way that Maori legends were passed down from generation to generation.  Students choose a land...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Find the Ocean Animal Words

For Students K - 2nd
In this ocean animal words worksheet, students define, discuss, locate and circle six key words associated with ocean animals: fish, whale, dolphin, crab, shrimp and shark,
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National Wildlife Federation

Planning Your Research

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Make it a great proposal! Class members play the role of marine scientists and choose from a variety of whales considered endangered they would like to study. Scholars then create applications for permits to conduct research of the...
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Curated OER

Latin Lingo

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Did you know that the Greek and Latin root words that make up the scientific name of a creature often describe the animal? All the root words on this list relate to whales and dolphins. Learners examine the scientific names for dolphins...
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Sea World

Saving the Wild: Conservation Around the World

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Enhance your unit on conservation, ecosystems, or migration with a series of lessons about ways to save the wild around the world. Kids research types of conservation, such as recycling, and use their geography skills to map the...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Literary Genres in “Moby-Dick”

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Moby Dick is more than a whale of a tale narrated by Ishmael. A lesson studying Herman Melville's classic novel asks readers to examine the different genres the author weaves into his story. Instructors model how to conduct a stylistic...
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PPT
Curated OER

Homophones!

For Teachers 2nd
Explore homophones. Second graders can use this presentation to review common homophones, such as son and sun, and wail and whale. This resource could be augmented with a greater variety of examples to make this a richer experience.
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Curated OER

Underwater Animals

For Teachers K - 5th
Pupils investigate mammals and blubber. In this science lesson abut the sea, students perform an experiment that will help them in discovering how blubber keeps sea mammals warm.
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Curated OER

Common Marine Mammals Word Search

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this science worksheet, learners find the names of 20 common marine mammals in a word search puzzle. The word bank has a detailed color drawing of each mammal.
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Interactive
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W is for Whale: The Letter W

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
In this letter w worksheet, students practice tracing, then printing the upper and lower case letter w. Students can move a computer mouse over sample letters with guided arrows to begin.
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American Museum of Natural History

Around with World with DNA

For Students 6th - 12th
A mammalogist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, and a conservation geneticist share their work and their hopes that their research will help protect and save endangered species and their habitats.
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PPT
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If You Could go to Antarctica

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Images of various aspects of Antarctica are displayed in this slideshow, along with a corresponding vocabulary word. There are seven slides in this colorful PowerPoint that show the words: Antarctica, continent, icebergs, penguins,...
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Curated OER

Maintaining Body Heat

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students observe and compare heat loss in various objects with surface area-to-volume ratios and transfer this comparison to the physical characteristics of animals in their environment. In small groups they conduct an experiment...
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Curated OER

Exploring Treaty Rights and Ethics

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students explore whether the Makah should be allowed to hunt whales. They select a side of the controversy, "Should the Makah be allowed to hunt whales again?" They research the Internet to find sources that support what they believe...
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Curated OER

What Is A Community?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students engage in a lesson which introduces the definition of a community and challenges them to explore the characteristics of their own community. This lesson uses the true story of Humphrey the Lost Whale as an illustration of how...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Whispering Whales

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this consonant blends worksheet, learners examine 10 words and identify those that begin with the blend wh. Students find the identified words in a word search and then answer a bonus question.
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Activity
American Museum of Natural History

Rubber Blubber Gloves

For Students 6th - 12th
Using gloves, shortening, tape, and a lot of ice, participants experience the feeling of having blubber. The experiment's eight steps follow an informative page about blubber and animals that have it.
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Ask a Biologist

It’s a Plankton Eat Plankton World

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
For as small as they are, plankton sure play an enormous role in maintaining marine ecosystems. Dive into an investigation of these tiny organisms with a hands-on life science activity in which children cut out pictures of sea animals...
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University of California

Energy and Biomass Pyramids

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
Young scientists play tag as they act out the food pyramid in the ocean ecosystem. Energy circles pass from the smaller prey to the predators and at the end of the activity, a data chart and analysis questions allow pupils to apply their...
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Worksheet
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Sea Life

For Students 9th - 10th
In this biology worksheet, students identify and locate various vocabulary terms pertaining to animals of the sea. There are 18 marine animals located in the word search.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Hang on Homophones!

For Students K - 1st
In this homophones worksheet, students match the picture with the correct word. Homophones include one-won, wail-whale, sail-sale, etc.

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