Dolphins...need ideas

[Down_the_Rabbit_Hole]

Dd just informed me she does not want to study sharks but dolphins. Luckily the planning stage was early on so changing is not a real problem but I cannot think of activities to go with our study. Any ideas?

[bpaharris]

Dolphin Tales was promoted as a big homeshool movie. They had a a website that had a lap book the student could make. My daughter had a lot of fun making the lap book. You should be able to google it??

[Jess4879]

Here's a freebie from HOAC that might work -- I haven't seen it and I can't find any details on it - but the title suggests dolphins..LOL

http://www.handsofachild.com/freebie.html

[Down_the_Rabbit_Hole]

Dolphin Tales was promoted as a big homeshool movie. They had a a website that had a lap book the student could make. My daughter had a lot of fun making the lap book. You should be able to google it??

Going to look now. I forgot about this movie and it will be perfect. Will look for the lapbook info. We are going to read an old book called Children of the Sea about a boy who finds an injured dolphin and helps it. She will read Dolphine Adventure plus a few non-fiction books.

[wehave8]

Dolphin Tales was promoted as a big homeshool movie. They had a a website that had a lap book the student could make. My daughter had a lot of fun making the lap book. You should be able to google it??

:iagree:We liked this, too.

[Down_the_Rabbit_Hole]

Dolphin Tale info is found here and it looks awesome. Thank you

http://www.homeschoolmovieclub.com/curriculum-1/dolphin-tale

[m0mmaBuck]

Intelligo offers a unit study on dolphins. http://www.intellegounitstudies.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7&products_id=95

[crazymom4]

We just finished Amanda Bennett's Unit Study on Dolphin's and my kids LOVED it!

[rwjx2khsmj]

No idea how far it is for you but the Indianapolis zoo has a wonderful dolphin program.

[Zebra]

My daughter wanted to study dolphins this past school year and we used this free lapbook-

 

http://www.homeschoolshare.com/dolphin_lapbook.php

[Lori D.]

Some fiction at about a 3rd grade reader level that our DS really enjoyed when he was in his dolphin kick:

 

- Dolphin Adventure: A True Story (Grover)

- Dolphin Treasure (Grover)

- Dolphins and Me (Reed)

- Dolphins at Daybreak: Magic Treehouse #9 (Osborne)

 

And Non-Fiction:

- Nine True Dolphin Stories (Davidson)

- Dolphins! (Step into Reading) (Bokoske)

 

 

Not personally familiar with these, but they look very enjoyable:

- Winter's Tail: How One Little Dolphin Learned to Swim Again (Hatkoff)

- National Geographic Readers: Dolphins (Stewart)

- Everything Dolphin: What Kids Really Want to Know About Dolphins (Crisp)

- IMAX; on DVD: Dolphins (c. 2000) -- a lot about the people who work with dolphins

[Down_the_Rabbit_Hole]

Thank you all. These are great suggestions (printed out this thread). I had originally planned on a 2 week study but am now thinking 4...dd is happy. She is enjoying our science but wants to take a detour for a while.