If used as an introduction to marine animals, the teacher can provide this list. It may be helpful for students to organize the information into a chart with the names of the marine animals along the side of the page and the questions to be answered along the top of the page. Encourage students in lower grades to use the scientific method of creating a hypothesis, gathering information and evaluating results. Have the students collect information to answer the questions. The students should be able to evaluate whales versus fish based on background information provided about their differences.
Students can rank the questions to the top three in usefulness of determining whale or fish.
This can be voted on as a class and used in further evaluations of marine animals as the unit develops. Toothed whales actually catch fish with teeth. Feeding Evaluation 1. 2.