Fish vs Whale

Date: 16th January 2014

Day: Thursday

Time: 3:00-4:00pm

Class: Pomegranate

Theme: Underwater World

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Fish vs Whale

We went in a little further about whale today. Whales are mainly divided into two main groups: Baleen and Toothed.

These are the comparison between a Baleen and a Toothed whale.

Types	Baleen	Toothed
Diet	Shrimp, krill, small fish	Squid, fish & marine animals
Blow Hole	two	single
Example of whales	Humpback whales, Right whales etc	Sperm Whale, Narwhal etc

Since now that the children had some idea about a fish and a whale, therefore, I got them to see if they could compare a fish with a whale.

Teacher: Now, could you tell me the difference between a fish and a whale?

Kern Ee: Fish is small.

Teacher: Right. Then, whale is big.

Derek: Fish cannot jump high. Whale can jump high.

Teacher: Is there anymore other differences?

Derek: Fish got fin on top. Whale don’t have.

Teacher: Fish is cold-blooded. Then how about whale?

Children: Warm-blooded

Teacher: Fish lay eggs. How about whales?

Kwan Ming: Whale lays baby.

Teacher: How many babies each time?

Children: One.

Teacher: Fish breathe by using …..? (I use hand movement to give hints)

Children: Gills.

Teacher: How about whales?

Children: Lungs. (This actually took them a while to answer me.)

Then I also showed them a picture of a pity whale which died on the land. Therefore, I throw a question to them asking the children “Why did the whale die?”

Children: Got rubbish. (They saw the next picture which was full of rubbish at the shore)…people touch and eat the whales….the hunter eat the baby.

This gives the children some thoughts about caring for the environment such as not throwing rubbish into the river or sea to avoid marine animals accidentally eat those and got suffocated.