Thematic Units:

Whales

Title 

URL Address

Notations

Whales Whale Club

http://www.whaleclub.com/index.html

Information on marine animals including dolphins and manatees.

Zoom Whales

http://www.EnchantedLearning.com
/subjects/whales/

Hypertext book about whales by Enchanted Learning with detailed information on each whale and games and more.

The Whale Museum

 http://www.whale-museum.org/
index.html

Information on the Orca adoption project and many whale links.

 Virtual Whale Project

http://fas.sfu.ca/cs/research/
projects/Whales

3D Animation and sound environment for the visualization of the feeding behaviours of Pacific Humpback Whales

Whales on the Net 

http://whales.magna.com.au/home.html

Pick your favourite whale or dolphin and find out what it is doing, what it looks like and where it lives.

WhaleNet-Interactive Education

http://whale.wheelock.edu/

Educational web site, focusing on whales and marine research, for students and teachers.

Whale Songs

http://whales.ot.com/

An educational center about people and whales.  Research from vessel, Song of the Whale.

World Wildlife
Fund for Nature:
Kids Oceans

http://www.panda.org/kids/
wildlife/idxocmn.htm

Section on oceans, maps, description of whales, sharks, and seals. Includes pictures within text. Comparison chart with speeds of whales.

Whales:
Hervey Bay
Australia

http://dkd.net/whales/index.html

Information on Whales from Hervey Bay Australia. Stories of whale watching excursions.

Crittercam Chronicles

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
crittercam/

National Geographic Logs of encounters with critters in the oceans.

Evergreen Project:Oceans

http://mbgnet.mobot.org/
salt/index.htm

Information on Marine life from the shoreline to tropical and temperate oceans.

Virtual Whale Watch

http://www.neaq.org/explore/vww/index.html

Go through the steps for a whale watch with Jason at the New England Aquarium

Whale Songs

http://www.dolphinwise.com/whaleindex.htm

Listen to songs by whales and dolphins

Dophins

http://library.thinkquest.org/17963/
index-1.shtml

Dolphins: a thinkquest project. Concern for the environment.

SWIMS

http://www.ssec.org/idis/
cohasset/TblCnt.htm

Studying whales in middle schools, an interdisciplinary thematic unit.

Whales: A thematic Unit

http://curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU/
go/Whales/

Ideas for a thematic unit on whales with a long list of links. Lessons are not necessarily web-based.

Xcursion Central:
Whales

http://www.XcursionCentral.com/Xcursions/
dynamic/splash.cfm?id=709

Have students go through the process of learning about whales by reading the notes and answering the questions as they go through each web site. In the excursion.

Tramline Tours:
The Ocean

http://www.tramline.com/tours
/oceank/framever.htm

Take a guided tour with questions about the ocean.