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Column subtraction: Lesson 1: dolphins

4 - Further Challenges

Inspired by Nature Worksheet

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Further Challenges

  • Choose your favourite dolphin species (spinner, bottle-nosed, pink river etc.) Find out what you can about this particular dolphin species and present your research as a fact file. Try to include lots of interesting number facts about your dolphin species such as its length, weight and population.
  • Pretend to be a spinner dolphin by jumping into the air and turning around! Use this activity to remind yourself about quarter, half, three-quarter and full turns and how these turns relate to right angles.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08p83kg/player

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Related Clip

Bottle-nosed dolphins surf the waves off the coast of South Africa.

Credit: BBC One – Planet Earth: A Celebration

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