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 navigate countless miles of ocean to return to nesting websites.

Sea Turtles 101 is a video from National Geographics 101 series. As you might anticipate, 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 environmental obstacles dealing with sea turtles today. While not extremely interesting, the video is brief and useful.

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

Previously this week when I was checking the weather report on
NOAA.gov I saw a banner announcing that
this week is Sea Turtle Week. Prior to that I didnt understand 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 prompted me to look at some resources for mentor and learning about sea turtles. Heres what I found.

Sea Turtles 101

7 Sea Turtle Facts
7 Sea Turtle Facts is an useful page published by NOAA. The page consists of a couple of videos about sea turtle environment, life, and environmental challenges facing 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 learning about sea turtles. As you might expect, the video covers the basics of the life and evolution of sea turtles, the number and kind of sea turtles, recreation of sea turtles, and the ecological obstacles dealing with sea turtles today.

Traveling Turtles
Taking a trip Turtles is an ESRI Story Map, produced by NOAA, about 3 types of sea turtles found 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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