Marine Mammals
Audiences:Pre-school, Elementary School, and Middle School
NH Frameworks: Sections: LS1-1, LS2-3
Program Summary
This lively program that encourages critical thinking begins with a discussion of Power Point images that illustrate marine mammal characteristics and the physical and behavioral adaptations of specific marine mammals.
Participants explore these similarities and differences of marine and land animals and the special adaptations that allow for finding food, breathing and staying warm in Atlantic sea water through a number of hands-on activities.
For instance, participants have the opportunity to put one hand in a "blubber glove" and submerge both of their hands into ice water, timing and graphing how long they can keep each hand submerged before becoming uncomfortable. Other activities illustrate concepts of predictions and the enormous size of some marine mammals, the feeding techniques of baleen and toothed whales, and breathing adaptation differences in land and marine mammals
Program Outline
- Part 1 (describe opening part of the presentation
- Activity
- Part 2
- Activity
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