From a teacher's standpoint, it's an easy site to use. Lucy the plastic whale Another big hit with the younger kids is Lucy. Students and teachers can actually walk inside the gigantic inflatable structure when it's done. Students e-mail questions to marine scientists around the world. Every two weeks, a different scientist signs on.
Students read the story and answer questions posed in the text by clicking on photos.
Slides shows also feature children's art work and special classroom projects. Williamson's next project is put the entire catalog of all 870 whales identified in the Gulf of Maine on WhaleNet in collaboration with the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. He hopes to finish the project by next fall.