It’s Sea Turtle Week – Five Short Lessons
Sea Turtles 101
Earlier today when I was inspecting the weather condition projection on
NOAA.gov I discovered a banner revealing that
Prior to that I didnt know that there is a Sea Turtle Week. None-the-less it reminded 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 finding out about sea turtles.
Sea Turtles 101 is a video from National Geographics 101 series. As you may expect, the video covers the basics of the life and advancement of sea turtles, the number and sort of sea turtles, reproduction of sea turtles, and the ecological challenges facing sea turtles today. While not awfully interesting, the video is informative and brief.
Google Arts and Culture Turtle Stories
Google Arts and Culture provides this collection of imagery and videos about 5 various kinds of sea turtles found off the coast of Brazil. The images is good but the collection is a little light on information.
Turtle Travel Tips
Turtle Travel Tips is a charming SciShow Kids video about how leatherback sea turtles navigate thousands of miles of ocean to go back to nesting sites.
7 Sea Turtle Facts
7 Sea Turtle Facts is an useful page released by NOAA. The page includes a number 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 prompted me to look at some resources for teaching and discovering about sea turtles. As you might expect, the video covers the essentials 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.
Taking a trip 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.