It’s Sea Turtle Week – Five Short Lessons

Google Arts and Culture Turtle Stories
Google Arts and Culture uses this collection of imagery and videos about 5 different kinds of sea turtles discovered off the coast of Brazil. The images is nice however the collection is a little light on information.

When I was inspecting the weather forecast on, earlier this week
NOAA.gov I discovered a banner revealing that
this week is Sea Turtle Week. Prior to that I didnt know that there is a Sea Turtle Week. None-the-less it reminded me of the time that I saw sea turtles nesting in Costa Rica and it triggered me to take a look at some resources for teaching and discovering sea turtles. Heres what I found.

Sea Turtles 101

Sea Turtles 101 is a video from National Geographics 101 series. As you might expect, the video covers the essentials of the life and development of sea turtles, the number and kind of sea turtles, reproduction of sea turtles, and the ecological obstacles facing sea turtles today. While not awfully engaging, the video is informative and brief.

Turtle Travel Tips
Turtle Travel Tips is a cute SciShow Kids video about how leatherback sea turtles navigate countless miles of ocean to return to nesting websites.

7 Sea Turtle Facts
7 Sea Turtle Facts is an informative page published by NOAA. The page includes a couple of videos about sea turtle environment, life, and ecological obstacles facing sea turtles.

Prior to that I didnt understand that there is a Sea Turtle Week. None-the-less it advised me of the time that I saw sea turtles nesting in Costa Rica and it triggered me to look at some resources for teaching and learning about sea turtles. As you might expect, the video covers the fundamentals of the life and evolution of sea turtles, the number and kind of sea turtles, recreation of sea turtles, and the environmental obstacles facing sea turtles today.

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

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