A Dolphin Adventure

Introduction

Dolphins are highly intelligent marine mammals. They are found worldwide, mostly in shallow seas of the continental shelves. Dolphins are carnivores, and mostly eat fish and squid. get ready to discover more information about one of the most intelligent animals we know.

Task

Welcome to an underwater adventure, In this journey we are going to become familiar with the life of a dolphin and the needs dolphins have I order to survive. Put on your swim gear, and get ready to discover the many corners of the ocean floors.

You and your team are going on an underwater exploration on a search from different types of dolphins. On your exploration you are going to investigate the following questions: What type of habitats do they live in or need? How they communicate? What do they eat? And finally, Why are they considered one of the smartest to be the smartest mammals of the sea? You and your team will be creating a poster to explain the different parts of the questions.

Process

Teams will be set up into groups of four students, each student will be in charge of a specific task.

Team needs to decide what type of Dolphin they are doing to research, in order to find the information needs to create their posters.

Student can print and use pictures, photographs, maps, charts etc. to display their information

Teacher will have materials available for the posters, supplies such as markers, crayons, scissors, glue.

Students will present as a group the rest of the class .

The following links can assist you in your adventure! Enjoy and have fun.

http://everythingdolphins.com/dolphin-species.html

https://seaworld.org/en/animal-info/animal-infobooks/bottlenose-dolphins

http://awesomeocean.com/2016/05/03/dolphins-most-intelligent-ocean-creatures/

Roles include : Researcher- this is the person who will navigate the internet and look for the information you need.

Illustrator- this is the person who will create or print out pictures of dolphins for he poster.

Writer: This person will be writing down the answers to the questions that need to answered.

Group leader- This person will assist everyone when needed and will present the information learned.

Evaluation

Evaluation Rubric

	Beginning 1	Developing 2	Very Good 3	Exemplary 4	Score

Use of time	Did not use computer time wisely	Had to remind you several times to stay on task.	Good use of computer time with few reminders.	Spent your computer time working wisely.	%25

Quality of work	no use of proper punctuation, spelling, capitalization and word spacing. <10%	few uses of proper punctuation, spelling, capitalization and word spacing. <40% of time.	Some uses of proper punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and word spacing. <70% of time.	Uses proper punctuation, spelling, capitalization and word spacing consistently. 85% ^	%25

Participation	did not work well with team mates or group members	worked partially with team and group members	worked mostly with team mates and group members	Completed tasks with group and team mates throughout project.	%25

Research	Very little information on the topic, information is disorganized and difficult to understand	Some facts about the topic, the information is somewhat organized and hard to understand	The information is clear, organized, and descriptive	The information is clear, organized properly, descriptive, and easy for an outside audience to make conclusions from the information	%25

Total Score: %100

Conclusion

Students will learn the habitats of dolphins.
Students will about the different types of dolphin.
Students will learn how dolphins communicate.

You have learned so much about dolphins, do you think that they showed be captured or do you think they should remain in the wild.