Dianne Wolfer

Dolphin Song - Teachers' Notes

  • 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.