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How Big Is A Humpback Whale?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore humpback whales. In this humpback whale lesson, students determine the actual size of humpback whales and use diagrams to identify the major features of the humpback whale.
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Large Decimal Rounding to Decimal Representations: Weighing a Whale

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
An interactive challenges mathematicians to round large numbers with help from a large scale that measures the weight of a blue whale. The practie's five questions include multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, true or false, and an open...
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Whale: Days and Months

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this whales calendar learning exercise, students read the names of the days of the week and the months of the year, each inside a whale shape. There are no directions.
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Whale Terms

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this whale terms word search, students locate 14 vocabulary terms having to do with whales. A word bank is provided. No indication whether or not the words can be found diagonally. This appears to be student-made.
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Math Salamanders Ltd.

Whale Dot to Dot 1-10

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this connect-the-dots instructional activity, students connect the dots to create a whale. They do this for numbers 1 through 10.
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SeaWorld

How Big is a Blue?

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Whales are all big, but some are larger than others! Kids will love sorting the 10 whale species by size at their desk (whale cut-outs provided). Next, use a whale rope to visualize how long each of these whales actually is. A large...
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How Big is Big?

For Students 2nd - 4th
The blue whale is the focus of this life science worksheet. Students read an excellent selection on the blue whale, and answer ten comprehension questions. Then, students are divided into two groups. Each group has to estimate how big 85...
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the Whale Game

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students listen to whale stories and answer addition and subtraction problems in the stories.  In this addition and subtraction instructional activity, students receive 20 goldfish.  Based on the story they eat the goldfish....
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How Deep Do They Dive

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners calculate and graph the diving depths of various types of whales. They cut out and glue whale pictures on a worksheet to represent the diving depths for five whales, and discuss how people use graphs to communicate.
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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
Students 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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How big is a whale

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners 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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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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How Big is a Blue?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students determine the length of different whales using a rope marked off and color coded to each length. They create life-size scale drawings of whales on butcher paper.
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IS A BLUE WHALE THE BIGGEST THING THERE IS?

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore measurement in relation to size of objects.
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"Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is?" by Robert Wells

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers discuss how big is big. They compare the area and perimeter of an acre and a football field.
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Convert Metric Units of Length

For Students 4th - 5th
In this metric unit learning exercise, 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 activity, students read the strategies and steps to solve word problems. Students solve 2 problems about blue whales.
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Beginning Sounds Worksheet

For Students Pre-K - K
For 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...
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6: Six

For Students K - 2nd
In 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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Counting Fish

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this counting practice worksheet, students examine a picture and then identify the number of sharks, dolphins, stingrays, and whales in it.
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Recognizing and Tracing the Number 6

For Students K - 1st
In this number recognition and printing worksheet, students trace the number 6, eight times at the top of the page. They trace the word "six" 4 times. They count the pictures of six whales.
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Compare Weight

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this measurement worksheet, students compare the weights of items that are show as clip art pictures. They circle the object that is heavier. They compare objects such as a bed and a baseball, and a whale and a ring.

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