On June 17th, 2009 a class of Grade One students from Frank Hobbs Elementary School visited the Blue Whale Project Workshop. The Workshop is located in Victoria, BC, in a space generously donated by Ellice Recycle Ltd. The whale, when completed, will hang in the atrium of the Beaty Biodiversity Museum on the UBC campus in Vancouver.
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Environmental educator Natalie Bowes teaches students from Frank Hobbs Elementary about whale feeding while sitting in the blue whale's jaws.
Photographer: Derek Tan
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Skeleton articulator Mike deRoos gathers the students within the whale's ribs.
Photographer: Derek Tan
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Mike deRoos shows the kids the size of the blue whale's shoulder blades.
Photographer: Derek Tan
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Students compare an x-ray of the whale's flipper to their own hands to learn how closely we are related to whales.
Photographer: Derek Tan
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Students learn about the bones in the whale's flipper.
Photographer: Derek Tan
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The students piece together the whale's flipper bones using the x-ray.
Photographer: Derek Tan
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Mike deRoos shows the kids the whale's vertebrae. Some students put on masks to help with the smell.
Photographer: Derek Tan
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Environmental educator Natalie Bowes leads the students between the blue whale's jaws, carrying a bucket of souvenir plaster killer whale's teeth.
Photographer: Derek Tan
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Mike deRoos hands out souvenir plaster killer whale's teeth to students from Frank Hobbs Elementary.
Photographer: Derek Tan
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To find out more, visit the Blue Whale Project homepage.
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