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Learning About Dolphins

By Beverly Hernandez, About.com

Dolphins are beautiful creatures that are fun to watch. A dolphin is one of the most intelligent animals in the world.

Learning About Dolphins:

  • Dolphin's First Day
    Dolphin's First Day is a delightful story of a bottlenose dolphin. I owned this book for years and didn't read it until now - that was silly, it's a very good book.

  • What is a dolphin?
    Dolphins are warm-blooded mammals. An average dolphin will eat over 60 pounds of fish and squid a day.

Dolphin Projects:

  • Dolphin Printables
    Learn more about dolphin with these printable pages - worksheets, wordsearch and coloring pages. Add the completed pages to your Dolphin Notebook.

  • Dolphin Crafts
    There are three crafts for this lesson. Do all three or choose the ones you like best.

  • Dolphin Recipe
    Cooking with Kids - Make this Beach Cake or try the Grilled Mahi Mahi. It is dolphin the fish, not dolphin the mammal!

Dolphin Fun:

  • Games and Stuff
    Add the printable activities to your notebook. Have fun with the online games and activities.

  • Coloring Pages
    Print out the coloring pages. Answer the questions neatly on the coloring page.

  • Dolphin Theme Papers
    Use these fun papers to write a report a story or a poem about dolphins...or use them to write a letter to your friend.

Materials:

Related Products:
Dolphin Products and Apparel

Discovering Sea Creature Series:

You can access the lessons online, or sign-up for the free Discovering Sea Creatures Ecourse and receive a lesson in your inbox every week. Have fun learning all about sea creatures!

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