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 sites.

Sea Turtles 101

When I was checking the weather condition projection on, earlier this week
NOAA.gov I noticed a banner revealing 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 experienced sea turtles nesting in Costa Rica and it prompted me to look at some resources for mentor and finding out about 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 essentials of the life and evolution of sea turtles, the number and sort of sea turtles, reproduction of sea turtles, and the environmental difficulties facing sea turtles today. While not terribly interesting, the video is useful and short.

Google Arts and Culture Turtle Stories
Google Arts and Culture provides this collection of images and videos about five different types of sea turtles discovered off the coast of Brazil. The images is nice 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 habitat, life, and environmental difficulties facing sea turtles.

Traveling 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 rescue cold-stunned sea turtles on the beaches of Cape Cod.

Prior to that I didnt know 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 teaching and discovering about sea turtles. As you may anticipate, the video covers the basics of the life and advancement of sea turtles, the number and kind of sea turtles, reproduction of sea turtles, and the environmental challenges facing sea turtles today.

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