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...
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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.
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Echolocation Stations: Exploring Sound
Fourth graders explore the concept of echolocation during a unit on whales. They listen to the book and watch the Reading Rainbow video for "Humphrey: The Wayward Whale," explore various websites, and conduct experiments to demonstrate...
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Echolocation and Communication
Learners participate in a role-play activity to determine how whales use the properties of echolocation to communicate.
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Echolocation and Communication: Body Language Charades
Young scholars participate in a variation of the game charades to explain how whales use their bodies to communicate.
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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...
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Waves
Young scholars identify the different parts of a wave. In this physics lesson, students explain how animals communicate using sound waves. They discuss the effect of Navy's sonar on dolphins and whales.
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Dolphin Communication
Pupils listen to a lecture on dolphin communication methods. They consider ways in which humans communicate and participate in an activity to assess the role of smell in human communication.
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Echo Location
Students participate in a role-playing activity that demonstrates how whales use sound as an adaptation to their environment.
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Dolphin Documentary
Students use their knowledge of dolphin natural history to create a "movie."
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Alex: Echolocation Stations: Exploring Sound
During this lesson young scholars will have the opportunity to explore sound. This lesson should be taught during an ongoing unit about whales. Students will navigate different websites to learn more about whales and sound. This lesson...