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Winter’s Tail Webcast
Watch the Video Replay Now!
Introducing Winter's Tail, a brand new book from the authors of the #1 NY Times bestseller Owen and Mzee.
You're Invited!
Join us for a virtual field trip to Clearwater Marine Aquarium, Florida
Join us for a virtual field trip to Clearwater Marine Aquarium, Florida
Scholastic and Turtle Pond Interactive invite you and your class on a virtual field trip to an aquarium in Florida! Students will be introduced to an extraordinary and inspiring bottlenose dolphin named Winter, who was just three months old when she lost her tail after it became caught and mangled in a crab trap.
As a class, watch video highlights from the Winter’s Tail Webcast that aired on October 7, 2009. Your students will learn about marine wildlife as well as invaluable lessons in resilience, compassion, and friendship.
You’ll find age-appropriate resources and curriculum materials for the field trip below as well as books and teaching materials on other remarkable animals around the world that have faced their own challenges. Visit winterstail.com.
As a class, watch video highlights from the Winter’s Tail Webcast that aired on October 7, 2009. Your students will learn about marine wildlife as well as invaluable lessons in resilience, compassion, and friendship.
You’ll find age-appropriate resources and curriculum materials for the field trip below as well as books and teaching materials on other remarkable animals around the world that have faced their own challenges. Visit winterstail.com.
Meet Winter the Dolphin
CHECK IT OUT!
Video Game: Sneak Peek
Build reading skills through an interactive adaptation of the book, featuring photos, animation, and voice-over.
The game engages children in the story of an animal heroine with physical disabilities, while encouraging children with disabilities to see themselves as individuals.
Children will get creative with interactive coloring book pages and a “make-my-own” book feature.
Learn about dolphin training and conservation through micro-games at key points within the story.
One micro-game per chapter highlights a key aspect of the story with a tactile experience, such as bottle-feeding Winter and building her tail.
MEET WINTER
Get ready for your virtual field trip by integrating these lessons and activities into your beginning-of-the-year curriculum. Prepare students before the trip with the science behind dolphins and marine life. After the field trip, encourage discussion and build language arts skills with additional activities that show what we can learn from the story of Winter’s Tail.
MEET MIZA
Visit Virunga National Park in Central Africa to learn about mountain gorillas and create action plans to raise awareness of the problems facing these critically endangered creatures.
MEET KNUT
Teach students about the complex environmental challenges of global warming and habitat destruction through the eyes of a polar bear.
MEET OWEN & MZEE
Visit Haller Park in Kenya to see how an unlikely pairing between a tortoise and a hippo can teach students about friendship and building resiliency during a time of tragedy.
Student Resources
STUDENT ACTIVITIES
Visit www.winterstail.com for computer games that introduce kids to Winter, ocean life, and all things dolphin!
WINTER'S TAIL: INTERACTIVE STORYBOOK
Premiere of an interactive storybook and educational video game featuring Winter.
ESSAY CONTEST
Student essay contest! One lucky student and their family could win a trip to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium.
