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The Sights and Sounds of Orcas

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students investigate the orca whale. They participate in an online Webquest, listen to whale vocalizations online, answer discussion questions, and locate and read newspaper articles on marine mammals and orca whales.
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How Do Values Shape Conflicts?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers work through conflict. In this conflict resolution lesson, students participate in a simulation that requires them to consider both sides of the whaling issue.
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Mazes

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In this mazes worksheet, students figure out how to best help a killer whale who wants to leave the aquarium and go back to the sea. Students, through a maze, help him escape.
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Understanding How Researchers Study Dolphins

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine how researchers study dolphins and whales. In this scientific research lesson, students complete a Web-based interactive lesson focused on showing how researchers study aquatic mammals. A worksheet and web resources are...
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Rescuing a Beluga Whale

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students research particular characteristics of the Beluga whale as it applies to the role in each student is assigned. Students work cooperatively to design a proposal for a new home for the baby Beluga. Students present their proposal...
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Whale Scale

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Pupils estimate relative size and scale of humans, animals, and objects. They verify their estimations through research and measurement and then draw themselves in proportion to other creatures, both larger and smaller, in a selected...
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The Whale Poem

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Learners watch a whale video clip for information. Students brainstorm on the facts that they learned about whales. Learners use the Internet to find information and images about whales. Students write and publish a whale poem.
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Baby Animals

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students study baby penguins and whales. They name the penguin body parts and examine how penguins hatch from eggs. They name whale body parts and their function. They participate in a whale role play activity.
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Endangered Animal Coloring Page

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
In this endangered animal worksheet, students color a picture of a blue whale. Students then draw its natural habitat all around it.
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SeaWorld Word Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this SeaWorld word puzzle, learners search for words related to SeaWorld in San Antonio, Texas. They identify types of shark and whales, as well as specific locations in the park. A list of 24 words is available with the puzzle. ...
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W Is For Whale

For Students K - 3rd
In this w is for whale instructional activity, students use a pencil to trace and retrace twelve lowercase w letters for mastery of handwriting skills.
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W is for Whale

For Students K
In this printing worksheet, students master the upper and lower case letter "w." Students trace one line of each letter and complete one line of independent practice as well as the word "whale" on the dotted lines provided.
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How big is a whale

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students research the size of whales using print books or the internet. Students do the research in  groups. They compare and graph the results.
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Gray Whales: Hitchhikers: Free Rides on Gray Whales

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read about Gray Whales and circle any unfamiliar terms.
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Animals Matter

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore philanthropy. In this character education instructional activity, students define and give examples of philanthropy. Students listen to the story A Symphony of Whales and describe how the characters helped the whales....
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Jake's Tale

For Students K - 2nd
In this reading learning exercise. learners assemble an illustrated 8 page beginning reader booklet. The story is about a sea bird who meets a whale with the same idea for playing in the waves.
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Right Whale Coloring Page

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this right whale coloring activity, students examine a picture of the right whale. Students color the picture and draw its natural habitat around it.
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Blue Whale Diagram

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this science worksheet, students study the anatomy of the blue whale by using this labeled diagram. Students may color the page, which has no questions to answer.
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Blubber Gloves

For Teachers 5th
The ways that animals adapt to their environments is quite remarkable. In this life science lesson, fifth graders take a look at some of the ways that aquatic animals that live in Arctic or Antarctic waters survive. They perform an...
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Patterns in Nature

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Research patterns in nature which illustrate biological and mathematical concepts. Your class will discover and explore aspects of fractals, Fibonaccis numbers, whale and butterfly migration patterns, whale identification, flower...
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Whale Form and Function

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify similarities and differences in specializations of morphology among a variety of cetaceans and approximate the reasons for these specializations.
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Vertebrates II

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Mammals of the ocean unite! Or not. The 20th installment of a 23-part NOAA Enrichment in Marine sciences and Oceanography (NEMO) program investigates how warm-blooded marine mammals survive in water. In the class activity, learners use...
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Women And Leadership

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers view scenes from movie Whale Rider, research roles of women in Maori society, examine roles of women in relation to Paikea's predicament in Whale Rider, compare roles to those of women in American society, interview two...
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Spot the Differences

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
In this spot the difference worksheet, young scholars analyze pictures of two different killer whales to see if they can find five differences between the two.

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