It’s Sea Turtle Week – Five Short Lessons

Sea Turtles 101

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

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

When I was checking the weather condition forecast on, previously this week
NOAA.gov I saw 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 experienced sea turtles nesting in Costa Rica and it prompted me to look at some resources for teaching and discovering sea turtles. Heres what I found.

Sea Turtles 101 is a video from National Geographics 101 series. As you might anticipate, the video covers the fundamentals of the life and advancement of sea turtles, the number and sort of sea turtles, recreation of sea turtles, and the ecological challenges dealing with sea turtles today. While not terribly engaging, the video is short and useful.

7 Sea Turtle Facts
7 Sea Turtle Facts is a helpful page released by NOAA. The page consists of a number of videos about sea turtle environment, life, and ecological obstacles dealing with 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 prompted me to look at some resources for teaching and learning 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, reproduction 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 types 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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