Cross-curricular and highly engaging unit that improves literacy and critical thinking skills. Created by teachers for teachers, this unit presents an example of a elementary level unit (grades 3-5).
This is not just a unit about whales. This unit uses the endangered Southern Resident killer whales of the Northwest as a "bridge" to discuss environmental and conservation issues with students such as climate change, food web collapse, ecosystem balance, native american people, fossil fuels and m