Junior Curators: Whales

April 2022's theme was Whales!

Two children dipping their hands in a tub of ice water, with shortening to insulate their hands. An adult sits in the background.

UAMN photo by Emily Koehler-Platten.

Discover whales in culture, science, and art!

Try a blubber experiment, make a model boat, create a whale collage, and more.

 

At Home Activities:

The links are all PDF documents. 

             Close up of two hands in a clear container of water. One hand is wearing a blue disposable glove, and the other is in a bag half full of shortening.                       Three paper tubes, with drawings of a whale, krill, and plankton. A hand is stacking them to form a food chain.          Model umiak made out of paper and decorated to look like walrus hide. Cutouts of two people are glued inside the boat.

Left to Right: Blubber Gloves, Arctic Food Chain, and Model Umiak examples.

 


 

Watch a preview of Arctic Currents, a UAMN film about bowhead whales:

 

 


 

For activities designed for kids ages 5 and under, go to the Virtual Early Explorers page.

 

 

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