It’s Sea Turtle Week – Five Short Lessons

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

Previously this week when I was checking the weather report on
NOAA.gov I noticed a banner revealing that
today 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 witnessed sea turtles nesting in Costa Rica and it triggered me to look at some resources for teaching and discovering sea turtles. Heres what I found.

Sea Turtles 101

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

Sea Turtles 101 is a video from National Geographics 101 series. As you might expect, the video covers the essentials of the life and evolution of sea turtles, the number and sort of sea turtles, reproduction of sea turtles, and the ecological difficulties dealing with sea turtles today. While not terribly engaging, the video is useful and short.

7 Sea Turtle Facts
7 Sea Turtle Facts is a helpful page published by NOAA. The page includes a couple of videos about sea turtle habitat, life, and ecological obstacles dealing with sea turtles.

Prior to that I didnt know that there is a Sea Turtle Week. None-the-less it advised me of the time that I witnessed sea turtles nesting in Costa Rica and it triggered me to look at some resources for teaching and finding out about sea turtles. As you might anticipate, 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 challenges dealing with sea turtles today.

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

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