Maui’s Dolphin –

4. In groups, ask students to come up with an example of one animal to fit each of the
categories above. Note, there are no ‘extinct in the wild’ but ‘alive in captivity’ species in
New Zealand, so you may like to discount this category. Senior students can visit
www.redlist.org to conduct a search by category and country if you prefer.
5. Each student in the group chooses to be one of the brainstormed animals, and must
find other animals in the class who are in the same category. Once these groups are
formed, each group chooses one of the animals to role-play to the rest of the class.
In the role-play, the students work together to create one animal (so they need to
cooperate to be the head, feet/tail, wings/flippers etc). Once groups have had time to
practise their animal, sit everyone down and ask groups to perform one at a time while
the audience guesses which animal they represent.
Maui’s Dolphin – An inquiry to action
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