Student+Activities

Day One- Begin lesson by introducing dolphins and watching Jonathan Bird’s Webisode about Dolphins __ []  __ (approx 15 minutes). Continue with lesson by having children cut out and color in pictures of dolphins __ [] __ (approx 20 minutes) End lesson by reading Everything Dolphin: What Kids Really Want to Know about Dolphins by Marty Crisp (approx 15 minutes).

Day Two- Begin lesson by looking at facts about dolphins and their habitats from NatGeo for Kids __ [] __ (approx 10 minutes) Continue with lesson by creating Dolphin Habitat Dioramas by cutting out, coloring, and gluing the printables from the website __ []  __ The kids will decorate the shoebox with the back ground, colorings, and dolphin figurines (approx 40 minutes)

Day Three- Begin lesson by watching a video of dolphin eating fish __ [] __ __ [] __ (approx 5 minutes) Have kids go three at a time “fishing” for dolphin food (fish and shrimp) in a bucket with magnetic fishing poles, counting out and identifying food (approx 25 minutes) Have children scoop up “dolphin food” with a “net” (napkin). Dolphin food would consist of tuna finger sandwiches, Swedish fish, Goldfish, and pre-baked cookies shaped like fish. (approx 20 minutes)

Day Four- Begin lesson with a Dolphin related word search __ [] __ (approx 20 minutes) Show life cycle diagram and have children relate dolphin birth to human birth __ [] __ (approx 15 minutes) End lesson with children coloring and labeling parts of a dolphin’s anatomy with the words learned in the word search __ [] __ (approx 15 minutes)

Day Five- Begin lesson with reading Amazing Dolphins! By Sarah L. Thompson (approx 10 minutes) Have half of the class create a little booklet on all of the information they learned about dolphins with printable dolphins, dolphin anatomy, and fish to decorate __ [] __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> (approx 20 minutes) Have the other half of the class playing Dolphin games online __<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> [] __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> __<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> [] __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> (approx 20 minutes)