It’s Sea Turtle Week – Five Short Lessons

Turtle Travel Tips
Turtle Travel Tips is a charming SciShow Kids video about how leatherback sea turtles browse thousands of miles of ocean to return to nesting sites.

Previously today when I was examining the weather projection on
NOAA.gov I noticed a banner revealing that
today is Sea Turtle Week. Prior to that I didnt understand 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 prompted me to look at some resources for teaching and finding out about sea turtles. Heres what I found.

Sea Turtles 101

Sea Turtles 101 is a video from National Geographics 101 series. As you may expect, the video covers the fundamentals of the life and evolution of sea turtles, the number and sort of sea turtles, recreation of sea turtles, and the environmental challenges facing sea turtles today. While not awfully interesting, the video is useful and brief.

Google Arts and Culture Turtle Stories
Google Arts and Culture provides this collection of images and videos about five different kinds of sea turtles discovered off the coast of Brazil. The images is good but the collection is a little light on details.

7 Sea Turtle Facts
7 Sea Turtle Facts is an useful page released by NOAA. The page includes a couple of videos about sea turtle environment, life, and environmental challenges facing sea turtles.

Prior to that I didnt understand 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 about sea turtles. As you may expect, the video covers the essentials of the life and advancement of sea turtles, the number and kind of sea turtles, recreation of sea turtles, and the environmental obstacles dealing with sea turtles today.

Traveling Turtles
Traveling Turtles is an ESRI Story Map, produced by NOAA, about 3 types of sea turtles discovered in the waters around Cape Cod and how people work to rescue cold-stunned sea turtles on the beaches of Cape Cod.

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