Elective Unit Studies: Dolphins
In this fun and interactive unit study, your children will see dolphins like they’ve never seen them before! With over 65 activities and 20 hands-on projects, your children will be fascinated from beginning to end. Each chapter includes a variety of activities, including videos, hands-on projects, map work, interactive websites, readings, worksheets, charts, games, and much more!
Take a peek inside:
Dolphin anatomy
Blubber
How to draw a dolphin
New dolphin species
Dolphin webcams
Porpoises
Dolphin intelligence
Marine biology
Dolphin communication
Dolphin behaviors
How to train a dolphin
The marine food chain
Threats to dolphins
Bycatch (entanglement)
The 2010 Gulf oil spill
Dolphins in captivity
Military dolphins
Dolphin conservation efforts
Winter and Dolphin Tale
Dolphin species
Life on the bottom of the ocean
Temperate and tropical oceans
River dolphins
The Amazon River Basin
and much more!
All activities in this unit study are presented in an easy to follow format with an active and updated web link. Click on the link and the best resources on the World Wide Web appear for your children. The links bring the world to your children by providing streaming videos, interactive web sites, educational games, audio files, and more. At Intellego Unit Studies, we believe in the varied learning styles and multiple intelligences of every child. That’s why all of our unit studies include reading and writing activities, videos, art, music, comparisons, drawing and painting, discussions, hands-on activities, art projects, full-color high resolution graphics, printable activity pages, and more!
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Our Mission
At Intellego Unit Studies, our mission is to provide engaging curriculum that meets the need of the 21st century student. Using the best resources available on the Internet, Intellego Unit Studies unites technology, learning style theory, and multisensory activities to help children reach their true academic potential.
Our Focus
At Intellego Unit Studies, we provide comprehensive and complete K-8 curriculum in social studies and science. In addition, we provide multidisciplinary unit studies for electives and enrichment in the areas of science, history, art, music, civics, cultures, and popular interest.
Our Inspiration
At Intellego Unit Studies, we are inspired by the inquisitive nature of children and the nurturing adults who guide their learning.
Our Challenge
Before Intellego Unit Studies was created, we listened as children and parents complained that their curriculum was boring, inadequate, limiting, out-dated, or just plain ineffective.
You asked for:
Quality curriculum that replaces dumbing down with high expectations for students.
Engaging curriculum that supports active learning.
Creative activities that support parental involvement in their children’s education.
Comprehensive curriculum that teaches from multiple viewpoints.
Multisensory curriculum that contains more than just reading and writing activities.
Secular curriculum that respects the religious and spiritual beliefs of all people.
Multicultural curriculum that recognizes the past, present and future of racial and cultural minorities.
Reliable web-linked curriculum that brings your family the best resources on the Internet.
Easy to use curriculum that does not require extensive prep time.
Research-based curriculum that supports the learning needs of your children.
We have listened, and we hope you will agree that we have met the challenge you have placed before us.