Junior Curators: Whales

April 2022's theme was Whales!

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.

Blubber Gloves Experiment: Explore how blubber keeps animals warm in cold water.
Create a Model Umiak: Discover some ways people use marine mammals by making a model boat.
Create an Ocean for Whales: Explore whale habitats by making a collage.
Make an Arctic Food Chain: Learn how the biggest animals in the ocean eat some of the smallest ones.

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:

Watch the full movie on YouTube.

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

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