It’s Sea Turtle Week – Five Short Lessons

Sea Turtles 101 is a video from National Geographics 101 series. As you might anticipate, the video covers the basics of the life and development of sea turtles, the number and sort of sea turtles, recreation of sea turtles, and the ecological obstacles facing sea turtles today. While not extremely appealing, the video is helpful and short.

Sea Turtles 101

Previously this week when I was inspecting the weather projection on
NOAA.gov I discovered a banner revealing that
Prior to that I didnt know that there is a Sea Turtle Week. None-the-less it reminded me of the time that I experienced sea turtles nesting in Costa Rica and it triggered me to look at some resources for teaching and finding out about sea turtles.

Google Arts and Culture Turtle Stories
Google Arts and Culture uses this collection of images and videos about five various types of sea turtles found off the coast of Brazil. The imagery is great but the collection is a little light on information.

Turtle Travel Tips
Turtle Travel Tips is an adorable SciShow Kids video about how leatherback sea turtles navigate thousands of miles of ocean to go back to nesting websites.

7 Sea Turtle Facts
7 Sea Turtle Facts is an informative page released by NOAA. The page consists of a couple of videos about sea turtle environment, life, and ecological difficulties dealing with sea turtles.

Prior to that I didnt know that there is a Sea Turtle Week. None-the-less it reminded me of the time that I experienced sea turtles nesting in Costa Rica and it prompted me to look at some resources for teaching and finding out about sea turtles. As you might expect, the video covers the basics of the life and development of sea turtles, the number and kind of sea turtles, reproduction of sea turtles, and the ecological challenges dealing with sea turtles today.

Traveling Turtles
Taking a trip Turtles is an ESRI Story Map, produced by NOAA, about three types of sea turtles discovered in the waters around Cape Cod and how individuals work to save cold-stunned sea turtles on the beaches of Cape Cod.

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