It’s Sea Turtle Week – Five Short Lessons

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

Sea Turtles 101

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

Sea Turtles 101 is a video from National Geographics 101 series. As you might 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 ecological obstacles facing sea turtles today. While not awfully interesting, the video is short and useful.

Previously this week when I was inspecting the weather condition projection on
NOAA.gov I observed a banner announcing that
today 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 triggered me to look at some resources for mentor and learning more about sea turtles. Heres what I discovered.

7 Sea Turtle Facts
7 Sea Turtle Facts is a helpful page released by NOAA. The page includes a number of videos about sea turtle environment, life, and environmental challenges dealing with sea turtles.

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 finding out about sea turtles. As you might anticipate, the video covers the fundamentals of the life and development of sea turtles, the number and kind of sea turtles, reproduction of sea turtles, and the ecological difficulties dealing with sea turtles today.

Traveling Turtles
Traveling Turtles is an ESRI Story Map, produced by NOAA, about 3 kinds of sea turtles found in the waters around Cape Cod and how people work to save cold-stunned sea turtles on the beaches of Cape Cod.

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