Dolphin Toolkit
Teaching Tools About Freshwater Dolphins
The freshwater dolphin toolkit contains learning materials about the importance of protecting these fascinating animals and conserving freshwater resources around the world.
Available Toolkit Files
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Full Freshwater Dolphin Toolkit
The freshwater dolphin toolkit contains learning materials about the importance of protecting these fascinating animals and conserving freshwater resources around the world.
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Educator's Resource Guide
The freshwater dolphin resource guide is designed to give you all the information you need to teach your students about dolphins and freshwater habitats. The guide provides fun freshwater dolphin facts, why they matter, what threats they face, what WWF is doing to help dolphins and freshwater resources, and what kids can do to help. It also includes a fun freshwater dolphin word puzzle to do with your students.
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Freshwater Dolphin Classroom Presentation
The Freshwater Dolphin Classroom Presentation reflects the information provided in the Educator's Resource Guide in an easy to give interactive classroom presentation for students. Through the slides, students will learn general freshwater dolphin information, why freshwater dolphins matter, threats to freshwater dolphins, how WWF protects freshwater dolphins, and what kids can do to protect freshwater dolphins.
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The Umbrella Effect
Arts Education Activity
To represent the important role that Amazon river dolphins have in their ecosystem, students will create hanging mobiles with dolphins as the centerpiece.
(30-45 minutes | Grades 3-5)
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Nature's Sponges
STEM Activity
Students build models of wetland ecosystems that represent the necessity and importance of these habitats.
(45-60 minutes | Grades 3-5)
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A Drop in the Bucket
Math Activity
Students will evaluate their current daily water use and be tasked with designing a new daily routine, imagining they were limited in the amount of water available, as many areas of the world are.
(30-45 minutes | Grades 3-5)
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Like the River Flows
Language Arts Activity
After explaining how rivers are like the arteries and veins of the Earth, students will develop their own metaphors and similes in a poem that reflects the importance of free-flowing rivers.
(30-45 minutes | Grades 3-5)
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Dolphin Geography Flipbooks
Social Studies Activity
Students will create flipbooks containing information on the threats and habitats of the existing seven species of freshwater dolphins and their neighboring communities who share their water resources.
(45-60 minutes | Grades 3-5)
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Food or Foe?
Physical Education Activity
A dolphin-twist on the game Marco Polo, students will understand how dolphins have adapted to find food without the use of their sight.
(20-30 minutes | Grades 3-5)
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Freshwater Dolphin Posters (8.5x11)
Classroom Posters
Download one PDF file containing both 8.5x11 dolphin posters.
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Freshwater Dolphin Posters (11x17)
Classroom Posters
Download one PDF file containing both 11x17 dolphin posters.
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Certificate of Achievement
Student Recognition
Reward your students' completion of the toolkit with this printable PDF certificate.
More Freshwater Dolphin Resources

- Freshwater dolphin information Freshwater dolphin species and facts
What's the difference between a dolphin and a porpoise? And other river dolphin facts
Tagging river dolphins for the first time: WWF and partners boost conservation efforts in the Amazon - Freshwater dolphin Videos River Rangers Protect Irrawaddy Dolphins
River Dolphins and the Health of the Amazon
How Your T-Shirt Can Make a Difference - Freshwater Interactives WWF Free Rivers App
WWF Together App - Dolphins