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Sharks and Whales

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students will participate in a game to promote physical fitness. The outcome will be that learners will become more interested in fitness and remain engaged in the activity throughout its implementation.
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"Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is?" by Robert Wells

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss how big is big. They compare the area and perimeter of an acre and a football field.
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Research Project

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students learn the importance of National Marine Sanctuaries and create an original illustrated research project.
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"Be the Kiwi" - Bible

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners compare and contrast the English version to the Maori version of the Treaty of Waitangi.  In this diversity lesson plan, students discuss similarities and differences in the two versions of the treaty.  Learners...
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Convert Metric Units of Length

For Students 4th - 5th
In this metric unit worksheet, students use a table to solve problems related to length of different types of whales using centimeters, meters and kilometers.
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Using Operations

For Students 4th - 5th
In this problem solving worksheet, students read the strategies and steps to solve word problems. Students solve 2 problems about blue whales.
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Be the Kiwi: New Zealand Unit Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students participate in a learning celebration at the end of a unit on New Zealand. In this global studies instructional activity, students share what they learned about the nation, watch "The Whale Rider," and eat foods from New Zealand.
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Waves

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students 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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What is a Community?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the characteristics of their community. In this communities lesson plan, students read Humphrey the Lost Whale: A True Story and discuss how the community came together to solve a problem. Students identify services...
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Ocean Life

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify marine mammals according to specific characteristics. Students read about marine mammals and list their characteristics. Next, students play a Whale and Otter game on the playground to simulate whales swimming across...
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Arctic Animals

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this word search puzzle instructional activity students find 16 words. All pertain to animal life in the Arctic region. There is a word bank for this whale shaped puzzle.
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Biodiversity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the biodiversity of the national marine sanctuaries. In this science lesson, students view a video about Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary and Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary. Students work...
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Career and Personal Planning

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students visit Conservation in Action web site to watch three video interviews with Vancouver Aquarium researchers, complete Careers in Conservation worksheet, research threats facing species featured on Conservation web site, and create...
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What is Cultural Evolution?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students comprehend what is meant by Cultural Evolution and that it primarily applies at Human Evolution, but that there are examples in higher mammals such as a killer whales, dolphins and great apes of particular groups by exploring...
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Making Science and Literature Connections

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars access the Internet and research physical characteristics and route of migration of the gray whale. They complete a database and reproduce the information using Apple Works. They read the novel El Guero by Elizabeth Borton...
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Translate Animal Names into the IPA 2- Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills

For Students 4th - 6th
In this grammar worksheet, learners translate the names of common animals by writing them using the International Phonetic Alphabet. They write names such as hedgehog, whale, kangaroo, and sloth in IPA.
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Beginning Sounds Worksheet

For Students Pre-K - K
In this early childhood beginning sounds worksheet, students learn to recognize beginning letters of words as they look at the pictures of the duck, giraffe, fan and whale on the page and choose from the letters in a box associating the...
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Linnaeus' Latin Lingo

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students use Latin and Greek words to figure out species names for whales.
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Aquarium of the Pacific

Think Like a Scientist

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Scholars watch a video and meet a scientist who is studying sharks as she explains her observations about the sharks and provides her hypothesis to explain their behavior. Learners then act like a scientist as they watch an aquarium...
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Whispering Whales Word Search

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this "wh" word search worksheet, students analyze 10 words and circle those that have "wh." Students find these words in a word search puzzle.
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Letter w is for Whale

For Students 1st
In this printing letter w worksheet, 1st graders study the example lowercase letter w and then use the 4 provided lines to practice printing the letter.
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Noise Underwater

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders predict with reasoning how a sound will be heard underwater and record and communicate their findings. They listen to the difference in the way noise sounds underwater verses out of water and relate this to how whales and...
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United Kingdom

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this ESL activity, students answer 20 questions about the United Kingdom. For example, "What is the capital city of Whales?"
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6: Six

For Students K - 2nd
For this counting and coloring worksheet, students practice the skill of counting and coloring to 6 by coloring 6 birds and 6 whales.

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