Yellow-eyed penguin's backyard
New Zealand International Science Festival, the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust and the Department of Conservation are offering the yellow-eyed penguin's backyard interactive online project to year 1-10 students throughout New Zealand.
Dates
Yellow-eyed penguin
This nine-week project takes place in term four from Monday 12 October to Friday 11 December 2009.
Aim
The aim of the Yellow-eyed Penguin's Backyard project is to increase students' knowledge of the threats to the hoiho/yellow-eyed penguin and how this taonga species could be better protected.
The project asks students to think about the hoiho/yellow-eyed penguin from other points of view, encouraging them to think in different ways to find creative initiatives which may be useful in developing fresh approaches to conservation.
The brief
Using Edward de Bono's 'other people's views' method, students work in groups looking at the life and threats of the hoiho/yellow-eyed penguin from:
- a dog's point of view
- a tourist/photographer's point of view
- a sealion's point of view
- a local hoon's point of view
- their own point of view
- a farmer's point of view
- the Department of Conservation's point of view
- a fisherman's point of view
- a hoiho/yellow-eyed penguin's point of view
Using this information, the group creates an improved hoiho/yellow-eyed penguin habitat to submit to experts for feedback.
To register
To register your school, contact the project moderator.