Category: Marine Science

Excite students as they learn all about whales and create an interactive project with this life science, hands-on, creative resource. This nonfiction science unit makes learning about baleen whales and toothed whales interesting and will help students develop reading, research, writing and organizational skills.

⭐Designed for 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students.
⭐Use as a fully stand-alone unit or students can research for additional information through books, videos and website.
⭐ Low-prep, comprehensive unit
⭐ Inspires reading, writing, organization, project research skills
⭐ Can be used to create a lapbook or interactive notebook

What you get in this Whale unit:

• – How to use details
• – Images of how to create different style/size lapbooks and examples of interactive notebook pages
• – Supply list
• – Student forms: Required elements and grading rubric
• – Project grading form
• – Informational text covering topics such as classification, anatomy, behavior, communication, diet, life cycle, habitat and species-specific information for the following: Bottlenose whale, Cluver’s Beaked whale, Beluga whale, Killer whale, Narwhal, Sperm whale, Blue whale, Bowhead whale, fin whale, humpback whale and the Gray whale
• – Vocabulary
• – Whale surfacing behaviors – Images and descriptions
• – Suggested book titles for further research
• – Clipart
• – Project templates