IFAW’s Floating Classroom project has been in teaching kids about whales and taking them out on the water to see them in person for more than five years. However it’s been largely in development with a few schools and is now at the point where we have a solid curriculum ready to be implemented more widely. I’m in Dominica this week to test out a pilot handbook for wider use. Ideally I’ll get some feedback from the teachers, students, school principals and others on how we can finalize our handbook for wider use. Dominica relies on ecotourism as a main source of revenue, has a motivated whale watching operators association (known as Caribwhale) and has an education ministry that strongly desires the youth of Dominica to be best equipped with the skills necessary to protect their valuable fish, coral reefs and diverse population of whales. With a population around 60,000 Dominica’s such a small country that little effort can translate into tremendous impact for whale conservation.