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1. Dolphins
Solving problems. GRADE : 9-12 MATERIALS : Bottlenose Dolphins and small fish (which makes up the Dolphin's diet.) OBJECTIVE : To get students to be comfortable in manipulating data and reason logically,using numbers. MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS : Ratios, functions and reasoning. NCTM STANDARDS : Standard 1 "Math as problem solving" Standard 3 "Math as reasoning" Sta...

2. Save the Dolphins Letter
Lesson Plan: ?Save the Dolphins? Letter Project Name: ?Save the Dolphins? Letter Subject Area: Social Studies and Language Arts Timeline: Day 6 Grade Level: Fourth Grade Content Area Objectives: The students will: ¨ Access interprets, organize, and apply information gathered from a variety of sources. ¨ Identify points of view ab...

3. Seaquarium Conversion
...er) Do another example using both methods for the weight of the dolphin. 440 lbs. (.45 kg) =198 kg X kg = .45 kg = 198 kg 11 lbs. 440 lbs. 1 lbs. Ask the children to guide you though the examples of a 8 ft., 320 lbs. Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin. Now try some word problems. Example 1: Three 400 lbs. Dolphins are in a tank with 10,000 kg of water. How many kilograms in the tank? First, convert lbs. To kilograms. 400 lbs. (.45 kg/1 lbs.)= 180 kg Then set up the problem. 3(180kg) + 10,000 kg = 10,540 kg Example 2: How many 10 ft. Dolphins does it take to line up nose to tail to cover 100 m? 10 ft.(.3 m/ 1...

4. Dolphins
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5. How Do We Sum That Up?
...can read the text and then repeat the main ideas back in their own words they will achieve that desired success. This lesson will help students learn how to form a topic sentence as a form of summarization. They will accomplish this through modeling and practice. Materials: One copy per student of Dolphins at Daybreak by Mary Pope Osborne Lined paper and pencils per student White board and Markers Rubric for assessment Procedures: 1. Introduce lesson: TODAY WE ARE GOING TO LEARN HOW TO SUMMARIZE WHAT WE READ. I KNOW YOU HAVE SUMMARIZED BEFORE, YOU JUST DID NOT KNOW THAT WAS WHAT YOU WERE DOING. A SUMM...

6. Language Arts: Island of the Blue Dolphins/Grade 5
Vision View the standards Return _ Unit/Lesson Plan _ Language Arts: Island of the Blue Dolphins/Grade 5 Description GOAL: Read Island of the Blue Dolphin to create an individual picture book with captions to share with Grade 1 partners. Actual classroom times will vary from 60 to 90 minutes. This is day one and day two of a 16 day lesson. Goal/Standard/Level/Benchmark 1.C.2 1.C.2.d 3.A.2 3.A.2...

7. Boolean Logic
...teacher should demonstrate using these operators in an online search. The Advanced Search of Google allows the searcher to find results: 1. with all of the words (AND) 2. with the exact phrase 3. with any of the words (OR) 4. without the words (NOT) The following keywords can be used as an example: dolphins AND whales, dolphins OR whales, dolphins NOT Miami. Student Work Students should work in pairs or small groups to determine keywords and their relationships about a topic they are researching and search online. The teacher provides students with blank Venn diagrams. Students write in their keywords...

8. Researching Dolphins as Endangered Mammals
...Plan You may save this lesson plan to your hard drive as an html file by selecting "File", then "Save As" from your browser's pull down menu. The file name extension must be .html. This lesson provided by: Author: Missy Zessin System: COVINGTON COUNTY School: FLORALA HIGH SCHOOL Title: Researching Dolphins as Endangered Mammals Overview/ In this interdisciplinary lesson, Annotation: students work in groups of 3-4 to use the Internet for research. Students create reports and slideshow presentations (optional) defining dolphins as mammals and as an endangered species. Students will also propose ways to...

9. Echolocation Lab
...targets and listen to the sound of the water hitting the target to guess the target's shape and the material it is made from. Preparation time needed: 15 to 30 minutes Class time needed: 40 to 60 minutes for a class of twenty five. LESSON/ACTIVITY: LAB SUMMARY : In this lab you will experience how dolphins and other echolocating animals use their senses to locate and identify objects with out using their sense of sight. Echolocation by dolphins occurs when the dolphin produces sound waves from an area of their head above their eyes called the melon. These sound waves travel forward through the water u...

10. Dolphin Demeanor
learning/teacher/bg_teacher.gif) Back to Main Daily Lesson Related Article Plan Evidence Puts Lesson Plan Dolphins in New Archive Light, as Killers News Snapshot By WILLIAM J. Issues in Depth BROAD On This Day in History (Go to Article.) Crossword Puzzle Campus Weblines Education News Get Our Lessons By E-mailPrinter-friendly Version Newspaper in Education (NIE) Teacher Resources Classroom Tuesday, July 6, 1999...