Calling students of all ages!

To help you learn more about North Atlantic right whales, we have developed some fun and educational RIGHT WHALE activities.
​These activities can be done separately or all together and in any order.


​These materials were developed by members of the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium’s Education Committee, which includes the Audubon Society of Rhode Island, New Bedford Whaling Museum and Whale and Dolphin Conservation. Please feel free to reach out to any of these organizations with questions, comments, or requests for more materials.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES YOU WILL NEED FOR SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES ARE HERE. 
Click on an image below for the activity you wish to try!

**An answer key for select activities is linked below the activities.** 

North Atlantic right whale online scavenger hunt

​How Much Can You Learn About The
North Atlantic Right Whale?

historical uses of whale products

Test your knowledge on how whales were processed into products for human use. 

right whale math and science

Learn some basic biological facts about the North Atlantic right whale by comparing and contrasting them with other familiar organisms. 

life as a right whale

In this activity you are going to use a map that looks at the full range of the right whale's habitat and protections that are in place in different areas. 

Right Whale Identification

Become a right whale scientist! Learn how scientists identify individual North Atlantic right whales and practice this process yourself. 

All Tangled Up

​This fast activity is a simple way to learn what life may be like for entangled North Atlantic right
whale. Could you get yourself untangled if you were caught in rope or marine debris?

Right Whale crossword puzzle
​and word search

Crossword

Word Search

how do right whales eat?

This activity will simulate how the right whale's baleen helps them strain their food from the water. 

whale blubber activity

In this activity you will make a "blubber glove" which simulates the whale's layer of insulating fat, known as blubber. You will conduct an experiment to test the effectiveness of fat as an insulator. 
Answer Key