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Echolocation and Communication

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars 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

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students participate in a variation of the game charades to explain how whales use their bodies to communicate.
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Whale Echolocation

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students demonstrate how a whale uses echolocation to track food and identify one other animal that also uses echolocation. In this echolocation lesson, students play a game where one child (the whale) is blindfolded and gives a signal...
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Waves

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify the different parts of a wave. In this physics instructional activity, students explain how animals communicate using sound waves. They discuss the effect of Navy's sonar on dolphins and whales.