Dolphin Song Teaching Ideas

• Make environmental posters about not polluting the oceans. Have a competition.
• Find out more about purse seine netting, tuna fishing, long line.
• Write letters to a politician or the newspaper about your environmental worries.
• Have a debate (about fishing practises in Australian waters: purse-seine netting, traditional fishermen from poorer nations, cost of saving beached whales).
• Choose one type of dolphin/whale and do a project (what does it eat, map its range).
• Go on a Swan River cruise, stand on the bluff at Kings Park, look at Aboriginal paintings in a gallery. How do they make you feel? Write about it.
• Write a letter that Wayne wanted to send to Melody but didn't.
• Write a poem about the ocean, use your senses.
• Draw a dolphin, label its body parts.
• Make a cartoon strip with dolphins as characters.
• Make a diorama of one of the scene.