WEEK 4: Protect and Preserve
DAY 3: Taking Action
Activity 2: Protecting the Most Vulnerable - Fact or Fiction? [4 points]
Here in New Zealand, we have a native dolphin, the Māui Dolphin, that is on the verge of extinction (disappearing forever). As of this year, there are only 63 Māui dolphins left and people predict that they will be extinct by 2033. Environmentalists and activists, including the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), are working hard to save the dolphin because it is such a special and unique animal. To learn more about the Māui Dolphin, please follow this link. If you would like to sign a petition from the WWF encouraging the New Zealand government to take action to save the Maui Dolphin, please follow this link.
Once you have learned more about this unique dolphin, it is time for you to share your learning with us. 
On your blog, post three facts that you learned about the Māui Dolphin. Then, using your imagination, create three more statements about Māui dolphins that are not true (i.e. false). Please don’t tell us which of your statements about Māui Dolphins are true and which are false. It will be the job of the students and staff who read your blog to figure it out.
- Māui Dolphins can live up to 20 years.
- Māui Dolphins need to be protected from sharks, pollution, trawling and set netting.
- The Māui Dolphins biggest threat fishing.
- Plastic has sent Maui to the brink of extinction.
- Māui Dolphins have the same fin as a common dolphin.
- Māui Dolphins can see with sound.
Kia ora Lyan,
ReplyDeleteWell done on taking the time to research the Maui Dolphin. You've come up with some very good statements of your own - it took me awhile to work out which ones aren't true, but I think I've figure it out. :) Are statements 3, 4 and 5 incorrect?
Have you seen Maui Dolphins before? I don't think I have but when I was in the Bay of Islands (where I'm from) over Christmas and New Years, I went out on a boat and saw lots of common dolphins.
Blog ya later!
Mikey :)
Hey Mikey, you have gotten 2 of them right but 3 is actually correct and the other false one is 2. You did a great job, I did mix some of the correct information with the wrong ones to make it harder. Anyways thank you for commenting, have a great night!
ReplyDeleteKia ora Lyan,
DeleteAh! I was so close! :) I was torn between numbers 2 and 3, but the 'trawling and netting' bit made me think that was the correct one. You did well to make them challenging for your readers.
Kia pai to rā Lyan (have a good day).
Mikey :)