A fun activity booklet to inspire students to join the Pod Squad, a community of ocean loving kids, who are passionate about whales, dolphins and porpoises and the conservation of our oceans!
**Awesome Antarctica - Three lessons provided: All About Antarctica, Awesome Antarctic Wildlife and Protecting Antarctica. **
Students will learn about the amazing white continent; Antarctica! Students will learn about this special place, and the unique and diverse wildlife that calls it home.
Every year, ORCA invites schools from all around the world to take part in our inspiring education programme called Whale Education Month.
Through a series of interactive and fun presentations and activities, students will learn to understand more about marine mammals, how they communicate, their habitats and the dangers they face.
These interactive and fun presentations and activities help students understand more about marine mammals.
For each topic there is a presentation or video, plus associated worksheets and games.
Each topic comprises of three lessons.
Each year, the packs have a different theme. Please visit the ORCA website for more details.
Evolution and Adaptations - Extraordinary Evolution, Amazing Adaptations and Threats to Whales and Dolphins. How marine mammals are perfectly adapted to their marine environment and the threats that face our whales, dolphins and porpoises
Every year, ORCA invites schools from all around the world to take part in our inspiring education programme called Whale Education Month.
Through a series of interactive and fun presentations and activities, students will learn to understand more about marine mammals, how they communicate, how they’ve evolved, their habitats and the dangers they face.
These interactive and fun presentations and activities help students understand more about marine mammals.
For each topic there is a presentation or video, plus associated worksheets and games.
Each topic comprises of three lessons.
Each year, the packs have a different theme. Please visit the ORCA website for more details.
Learn all about incredible whale journeys!
This pack includes enough resources for 3 x 1 hour lessons. This lesson includes three introductory videos to watch in the classroom (15 minutes long each) and then associated worksheets and activities to help students expand their knowledge about incredible whale journeys!
These lessons answer the following questions:
What is migration?
Why do animals migrate?
What is the difference between high latitudes and low latitudes?
Why do whales migrate?
What does a humpback whale migration look like?
What does a blue whale migration look like?
What does a gray whale migration look like?
These lessons are also part of a series of 20 lessons about whales, dolphins and porpoises and their conservation.
Please visit the ORCA website for more details.
Learn all about the wildlife that lives in the polar regions!
This pack includes enough resources for 3 x 1 hour lesson on polar adaptations. This lesson includes 3 short videos to watch in the classroom (15 minutes long each) and then associated worksheets and activities to help students expand their knowledge.
This lesson answers the following questions:
Where are the polar regions?
Where is the Arctic?
Where is the Antarctic?
What wildlife lives in the polar regions?
How are whales and dolphins adapted to live in the polar regions?
How are other animals adapted to live in the polar regions?
These three lessons are part of a series of 20 lessons about whales, dolphins and porpoises and their conservation.
Please visit the ORCA website for more details.
Marine Litter - What is Marine Litter? How does marine litter harm wildlife? What can I do?
Every year, ORCA invites schools from all around the world to take part in our inspiring education programme called Whale Education Month.
Through a series of interactive and fun presentations and activities, students will learn to understand more about marine mammals, how they communicate, how they’ve evolved, their habitats and the dangers they face.
These interactive and fun presentations and activities help students understand more about marine mammals, including the largest animal on our planet.
For each topic there is a presentation or video, plus associated worksheets and games.
Each topic comprises of three lessons.
Each year, the packs have a different theme. Please visit the ORCA website for more details.
Learn all about marine litter and the impact on our ocean.
This pack includes enough resources for 3 x 1 hour lessons on marine litter. This lesson includes 3 short videos to watch in the classroom (15 minutes long each) and then associated worksheets and activities to help students expand their knowledge about this conservation issue.
This lesson answers the following questions:
What is marine litter?
Where does marine litter come from?
How does litter from the land end up in the sea?
What are microplastics?
How does marine litter impact ocean wildlife?
How long does it take for litter to disappear?
How much of a difference can your students make to help ocean wildlife conservation?
These three lessons are part of a series of 20 lessons about whales, dolphins and porpoises and their conservation.
Please visit the ORCA website for more details.
Learn all about deep diving whales!
This pack includes enough resources for 2 x 1 hour lesson on deep diving whales. This lesson includes 2 short videos to watch in the classroom (15 minutes long each) and then associated worksheets and activities to help students expand their knowledge about ocean giants!
This lesson answers the following questions:
Which ocean creatures live at the surface?
What does the bottom of the ocean look like?
How deep in the bottom of the ocean?
What are the different ocean layers called?
How deep can marine mammals dive?
Which marine mammal dives the deepest?
Why do whales dive so deep?
These two lessons are part of a series of 20 lessons about whales, dolphins and porpoises and their conservation.
Please visit the ORCA website for more details.
Voices of the Deep - Learn how whales, dolphins and porpoises use communication. Students will get to listen to huge blue whales, melodic humpback whales and even hear killer whale’s echolocation clicks.
Every year, ORCA invites schools from all around the world to take part in our inspiring education programme called Whale Education Month.
Through a series of interactive and fun presentations and activities, students will learn to understand more about marine mammals, how they communicate, how they’ve evolved, their habitats and the dangers they face.
These interactive and fun presentations and activities help students understand more about marine mammals, including the largest animal on our planet.
For each topic there is a presentation or video, plus associated worksheets and games.
Each topic comprises of three lessons.
Each year, the packs have a different theme. Please visit the ORCA website for more details.
Learn all about whales!
This pack includes enough resources for 2 x 1 hour lessons about whales as ecosystem engineers. This lesson includes 2 short videos to watch in the classroom (15 minutes long each) and then associated worksheets and activities to help students expand their knowledge about ocean giants!
This lesson answers the following questions:
What is an ecosystem engineer?
What ecosystem engineers are in our ocean?
Why are whales so important?
What is a whale pump?
What is whale fall?
Why is phytoplankton so important?
These two lessons are part of a series of 20 lessons about whales, dolphins and porpoises and their conservation.
Please visit the ORCA website for more details.
Incredible Journeys - All About Migration, Incredible Whale Journeys and Dangerous Journeys. What is migration, why whales travel on such epic journeys and the threats whales face on these journeys.
Every year, ORCA invites schools from all around the world to take part in our inspiring education programme called Whale Education Month.
Through a series of interactive and fun presentations and activities, students will learn to understand more about marine mammals, how they communicate, how they’ve evolved, their habitats and the dangers they face.
These interactive and fun presentations and activities help students understand more about marine mammals, including the largest animal on our planet.
For each topic there is a presentation or video, plus associated worksheets and games.
Each topic comprises of three lessons.
Each year, the packs have a different theme. Please visit the ORCA website for more details.
Learn all about whales, dolphins and porpoises!
This pack includes enough resources for 2 x 1 hour lesson on how to identify different species of whales and dolphins. This lesson includes 2 short videos to watch in the classroom (15 minutes long each) and then associated worksheets and activities to help students expand their knowledge about ocean giants!
This lesson answers the following questions:
What is a cetacean?
What is the difference between a dolphin and a porpoises?
How do you look out for whales and dolphins at sea?
What do different species of whale, dolphin and porpoise look like, and how do we tell them apart?
These two lessons are part of a series of 20 lessons about whales, dolphins and porpoises and their conservation.
Please visit the ORCA website for more details.
Every year, ORCA invites schools from all around the world to take part in our inspiring education programme called Whale Education Month.
Through a series of interactive and fun presentations and activities, students will learn to understand more about marine mammals, how they communicate, how they’ve evolved, their habitats and the dangers they face.
This first topic is: Giants of the Ocean - Whales, dolphins and porpoises. These interactive and fun presentations and activities help students understand more about marine mammals, including the largest animal on our planet.
For each topic there is a presentation or video, plus associated worksheets and games.
Each topic comprises of three lessons.
Each year, the packs have a different theme. Please visit the ORCA website for more details.
Ecosystem Engineers - An introduction to Ecosystem Engineers, Whales as Ecosystem Engineers and Save the Whales!
Every year, ORCA invites schools from all around the world to take part in our inspiring education programme called Whale Education Month.
Through a series of interactive and fun presentations and activities, students will learn to understand more about marine mammals, how they communicate, how they’ve evolved, their habitats and the dangers they face.
These interactive and fun presentations and activities help students understand more about marine mammals, including the largest animal on our planet.
For each topic there is a presentation or video, plus associated worksheets and games.
Each year, the packs have a different theme. Please visit the ORCA website for more details.
Learn all about whale, dolphin and porpoise communication!
This lesson answers the following questions:
How do whales, dolphins and porpoises communicate?
Why use sound?
What is echolocation?
How do whales sing?
What do whales, dolphins and porpoises sound like?
This pack includes enough resources for 1 x 1 hour lesson. This lesson includes an introductory video to watch in the classroom (15 minutes long) and then associated worksheets and activities to help students expand their knowledge about ocean giants!
This is the third in a series of 20 lessons about whales, dolphins and porpoises and their conservation.
Please visit the ORCA website for more details.
Learn all about whales, dolphins and porpoises (cetaceans)!
This lesson answers the following questions:
Are whales and dolphins herbivores, carnivores or omnivores?
What are toothed whales?
What are baleen whales?
What is baleen?
How do cetaceans feed?
What do cetaceans eat?
…And learn all about whale and dolphin food chains!
This pack includes enough resources for 1 x 1 hour lesson. This lesson includes an introductory video to watch in the classroom (15 minutes long) and then associated worksheets and activities to help students expand their knowledge about ocean giants!
This is the second in a series of 20 lessons about whales, dolphins and porpoises and their conservation.
Please visit the ORCA website for more details.
Learn all about the weird and wonderful beaked whales!
This pack includes enough resources for 2 x 1 hour lesson on deep diving whales. This lesson includes 2 short videos to watch in the classroom (15 minutes long each) and then associated worksheets and activities to help students expand their knowledge about ocean giants!
This lesson answers the following questions:
What is biological classification?
What are beaked whales?
Why don’t we know much about beaked whales?
How do beaked whales feed?
What do beaked whales look like?
What threats face beaked whales?
These two lessons are part of a series of 20 lessons about whales, dolphins and porpoises and their conservation.
Please visit the ORCA website for more details.
5 double-sided activity sheets for all ages - includes dot-to-dot, word searches, mazes, crosswords, spot the difference and fact sheets.
All on the theme of whales, dolphins and porpoises and the threats they face!
Learn all about whales, dolphins and porpoises!
This lesson answers the following questions:
What is a cetacean?
How many different types of cetacean are there?
Which whale is the largest? How big is it?
What are marine mammals?
What are toothed whales?
What are baleen whales?
This pack includes enough resources for 1 x 1 hour lesson. This lesson includes an introductory video to watch in the classroom (15 minutes long) and then associated worksheets and activities to help students expand their knowledge about ocean giants!
This is the first in a series of 20 lessons about whales, dolphins and porpoises and their conservation.
Please visit the ORCA website for more details.