It’s Sea Turtle Week – Five Short Lessons

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

Earlier this week when I was checking the weather report on
NOAA.gov I observed a banner announcing that
Prior to that I didnt understand that there is a Sea Turtle Week. None-the-less it advised me of the time that I experienced sea turtles nesting in Costa Rica and it triggered me to look at some resources for mentor and learning about sea turtles.

Google Arts and Culture Turtle Stories
Google Arts and Culture offers this collection of imagery and videos about 5 various kinds of sea turtles discovered off the coast of Brazil. The imagery is good but the collection is a little light on details.

Sea Turtles 101 is a video from National Geographics 101 series. As you might expect, the video covers the fundamentals of the life and evolution of sea turtles, the number and kind of sea turtles, reproduction of sea turtles, and the environmental challenges facing sea turtles today. While not extremely engaging, the video is useful and brief.

Sea Turtles 101

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

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

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 learning about sea turtles. As you may anticipate, 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 challenges facing sea turtles today.

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