BBC
Bbc Newsround: Week of 8 18 14: Sea World to Redesign Whale Tank
Learn about the larger tanks that SeaWorld has promised to create for the killer whales it houses.
Sea World Parks & Entertainment
Sea World: Beluga Whales
Outlines the characteristics of the beluga whale, including classification, habitat, behaviors, and conservation. Helps students identify with whales with a list of "Books for Young Readers." Information at a level of upper intermediate...
Sea World Parks & Entertainment
Sea World: Killer Whales
Outlines the characteristics of the killer whale, including classification, habitat, behaviors, and conservation. Helps students identify with whales with a list of "Books for Young Readers." Information at a level of upper intermediate...
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Wonderful World of Whales
Have your students ever wondered what it is like to be a whale swimming in ice cold water. In this lesson plan they can experience that as well as learn other facts about the lives of whales.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Ice Stories: Arctic Whales
Excellent information about arctic whales including facts about the bowhead, beluga, and narwhal. Features photos and links to related resources.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Bowhead Whaling and Its Impact
This interactive activity, adapted from material provided by the ECHO partners, explores the history of whaling in the Arctic seas and Atlantic Ocean, introducing a landmark study of whale populations spanning from 1849 to 1914.
Georgia Aquarium
Georgia Aquarium: Beluga Whale
Use this animal guide to learn the scientific name and discover the habitat, diet, reproduction, conservation status, physical, and other unique characteristics of the Beluga Whale. They can be viewed live on the webcam.
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Monterey Bay Aquarium: Blue Whale (Balenoptera Musculus)
Resource that gives information on the diet, range, relatives of the blue whale. Conservation notes and cool facts are also included. There are links to similar information on dozens of other types of marine life.
Smithsonian Institution
Tween Tribune: Week of 8 8 16: New, Rarely Seen Whale Spotted in Pacific
Genetic tests confirm that a mysterious, unnamed species of beaked whale only rarely seen alive by Japanese fishermen roams the northern Pacific Ocean. This is according to newly published research.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: All About Whales
This site provides a great deal of information about whales.
Other
Save the Whales: Gray Whales
Gray whales are endangered--find out why in this informative and colorful site and learn about gray whale diet, habitat, and other characteristics.
Other
Save the Whales: Blue Whale
The Blue Whales are endangered. Find out why in this highly informative Save the Whales site. Behavioral characteristics, diet, habit, and more are examined in this colorful site.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Oceans Alive: Whale Dreams
You can click on whale spotting in Australia, types of whales, global whale sanctuary and whale songs. View maps and diagrams that can help you spot whales.
Other
Whale Net: A Day on a Whale Watch
A great site to use as a complement to a unit on whales. Includes a link to an interactive reading program by Karen Smyth as well a curriculum unit and a whale watch slide show.
Other
Whale Net: Species and Behavior Information
How do whales sleep? How do whales use sound? Discover the answers to these questions and many more as you peruse this site. Includes various links on information and images of many species.
Other
Whale Net: Start Up Educational Activities
Site provides resources for teachers seeking to construct an interdisciplinary unit on whales. Includes links to "Whale Watch Data," News Archives, and much more. Provides various activities teachers can integrate into their classrooms...
Other
Shark Friends Whale Page
Dive down deep with these creatures and learn more about them without leaving your computer. Site contains information on different types of whales such as gray, northern right, fin, blue and other species.
Sea World Parks & Entertainment
Sea World: Baleen Whales
Outlines the characteristics of the baleen whale, including classification, habitat, behaviors, and conservation. Helps students identify whales with a list of "Books for Young Readers." Information at a level of upper intermediate or...
Read Works
Read Works: Two Kinds of Whales
[Free Registration/Login Required] An information text telling similarities and differences between killer whales and blue whales. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
NOAA
Noaa: Maritime Heritage: Our Whaling Pasts
A look at whaling in history worldwide, and specifically, whaling in the American "Golden Age" of whaling.
Other
Salariya: You Wouldn't Want to Sail on the Whaling Ship Essex!
This online book for younger readers tells pitfalls of sailing on a New England whaling ship. Although a cartoon format, it contains valid and useful information about whaling in New England.
Read Works
Read Works: Whales Take a Trip
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about whales that migrate to find warmer water. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
PBS
Jean Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures: Whale Navigation
Interesting site explores how whales navigate the waters without a sense of sight. Learn about the noises they use to communicate to migrate.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Whale Watcher Game Lesson
Describe the gray whale migration route and graph reasons for the migration. Predict what would happen to gray whales if they did not exhibit certain behaviors. This site also contains an interactive game.
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