Whale Science Activities
Marine Mammal Baffle!
Learn about marine mammal science from Whales Today and then give your kids a quiz to test their knowledge.
Learn Here (Whales Today Exhibition webpages)
Quiz (downloadable pdf)
Answer key (downloadable pdf)
15 Second Science
View ten videos on the Delaware Sea Grant College Program’s YouTube channel! Presented by Bob Rocha, Director of Education and Science Programs at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.
Video titles:
- Cetacean Characteristics
- Whales Don’t Chew
- Can a Whale Swallow a Person?
- Baleen
- Knots
- Whales and Echolocation
- Whale Tagging
- Bioacoustics
- How Whales Are Born
- Entanglement
Science-themed Hands-on Activities
View lessons and activities.
Explore whale biology, behavior and habitat. Learn more about what whales are, where they live, their diversity in speed, size, and communication patterns, their evolution, and migration.
Sounds of the Sea
Marine Mammal Sound Recordings
The William A. Watkins Collection of Marine Mammal Sound Recordings consists of recordings of various marine mammal species collected over a span of seven decades in a wide range of geographic areas by Watkins and many others.
