Learning About Whales

(Grades 2 & 3)

Exhibits and participatory investigations assist students in comparing and contrasting whales to humans.

Learning standards will be met as students:

  • Determine the ways in which a mammal’s habitat provides for its basic needs
  • Discover how mammals interact with their environments through their five senses
  • Consider the different ways humans have interacted with whales over the ages
  • Use cardinal directions and lines of latitude and longitude to make observations and interpretations about whale behavior
  • ALL PROGRAMS CORRESPOND TO THE MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CURRICULUM FRAMEWORKS.
    

Suggested Pre-Visit Activities
  • Review the five senses: sight, sound, smell, touch and taste.

Suggested Post-Visit Activities
  • As a class, create a list of the species of whales and facts about each whale that the students learned during their visit to the Museum.
  • Have students write a thank you note to the docents (museum volunteers) using at least one new whale-related vocabulary word they learned during their visit to the Museum.