Overview: Humpback Whales 101
The unit’s main focus is on whale behavior while in the mating and nursing grounds in Hawai‘i. Like researchers, students follow the scientific inquiry process to answer questions.Through hands-on lab activities and fun games that complement lessons, students replicate the feeding behaviors of whales, and create bar graphs comparing the feeding styles of baleen and toothed whales. During review exercises, students engage in a game, pantomime whale behaviors and match photographs of whale flippers with descriptive cards.
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National Standards:
Hawaii State Standards:
- Hawaii Content and Performance Standards III
- 3rd Grade
- SC.3.1.1 Pose a question and develop a hypothesis based on observations
- SC.3.1.2 Safely collect and analyze data to answer a question
- SC.3.4.1 Compare distinct structures of living things that help them to survive
- SC.3.5.1 Describe the relationship between structure and function in organisms
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Keywords:
activities, behavior, engage, feeding behavior, hands on, hawaii, humpback whales, lessons, mating, nuring grounds, researchers, scientific inquiry, students, whale flippers
