In 2009, Whale Trust Maui initiated a collaborative arts and education project to help connect two elementary schools in Hawaii and Alaska through humpback whales. Students participating in the project spent five months researching humpback whales, listening to speakers from the scientific community, writing stories, journaling about what they learned and writing and producing plays and DVD’s of their work (see below).
They also created a traveling artistic mural of their journey (above).
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