Living Underwater Archives

Defending the Deep

A board game to learn about the deep sea and the potential impacts deep-sea mining can have on these sensitive ecosystems.

With a slinky, discover how dolphins and whales use echolocation to navigate and find food.

Discover one of the ways marine mammals are able to hold their breath for long dives underwater.

Using magnets, kids can mimic how sharks use a unique sensory system to locate their prey.

In this fun matching game, kids will learn about the symbiotic relationship between different marine creatures.

With small mirrors and a paper towel tube, students build monoculars to view their surroundings from the perspective of a whale.

An activity that demonstrates how baleen whales, such as Right Whales, use skim feeding to capture their prey.

Students create a “blubber glove” to mimic the importance of blubber to whales living in frigid water.

A fun game teaching students how fish and other ocean creatures camouflage into their surroundings.

A hands on activity that illustrates how marine creatures have adapted to survive the extreme conditions between the rocky shoreline tide marks