Divide students into teams and challenge them to use library resources to write a report about one species of whale. Assign a species to each team to research. Those species might include the sperm whale, the humpback whale, the gray whale, the killer whale, the right whale, the beluga, the minke whale, the fin whale, and the bowhead whale. Write a farewell message to Keiko or send a Keiko postcard to a friend. Read the information on the Sea World Web site about Longevity and Causes of Death .
Scientists have an unusual way to figure out how old a killer whale is.
Create a timeline of events in the life of Keiko the whale. The timeline should begin with Keiko's birth in 1978 and end with his trip to Iceland in 1998. Use Keiko's Story , on the official Keiko Web page, as the source of information for your timeline. Choose one event for your timeline for each year that has an event listed. Write a caption for a favorite photo found on the Cetacean Picture Gallery page on the Whales on the Net Web site or the Cetacean's Pictures page on Whale-Watching Web.