Hi Kids,
Welcome to Ride the Turtle Rainbow. Learning about sea turtles will be a great adventure. Did you know that they lived before the time of the dinosaurs? Yet today, they are endangered, meaning they might not survive. Your class will be working on a project such as writing a sea turtle story or poems with a class in a different county.
Below are resources to help you discover facts about sea turtles, the ocean and conservation. There are even interactive game links below.
- Sea Turtle Facts & General Information
- Endangered and Extinction
- Global Warming: effects on sea turtles, oceans and beaches
- Mythology
- Art Projects
- Interactive Games and Quizzes
Use Goodsearch to Save Sea Turtles!
Academic Kids has information on the Leatherback sea turtle with vocabulary links within their text that can be further defined. http://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/
Leatherback_Sea_Turtle
The Caribbean Conservation Corporation provides many sea turtle facts, photos, as well as viewing of satellite tracking http://www.cccturtle.org/
turtletides.php
EuroTurtle: Frequently asked questions about sea turtles: http://www.euroturtle.org/FAQ.htm
Also, this link has a great general sea turtle page with much information and is available in different languages: http://www.euroturtle.org/intro_eng.htm
The Great Turtle Race is a fun site that focuses the Leatherback sea turtle with interactive games, lesson plans, vocabulary and educational resources. For class K-5 see http://turtlerace.eirc.org/website/Introduction/K~5.html and for additional activities, click here http://turtlerace.eirc.org/website/
Student-Activities.html
Ocean Conservancy has a free download (34 Pages) English/Spanish very informative coloring book with detailed turtle facts and conservation practices.
http://www.oceanconservancy.org/site/
PageServer?pagename=fw_turtles
Ocean Live http://www.oceanslive.org/portal/ ocean video. To find a video of the Loggerhead sea turtle look under archived videos.
National Marine Fisheries Service: “The Kid’s Time” has information on all species of sea turtles
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/education/
kids_times_turtle_loggerhead.pdf
Save the Turtles, Inc. www.costaricaturtles.org (Yes, this is us.) We have great photos of sea turtles, information on each species, and Ride the Turtle Rainbow global education connection.
San Diego Zoo: Activities for grades 6-9 learn about bio-diversity, saving energy and ecological footprint. http://www.sandiegozoo.org/teachers/images/
biodiversity_activity.pdf
Defines the difference between turtle, tortoise and terrapin: http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-turtle.html
Sea Turtle, Inc is an interactive site in Spanish/ English, and you can click on a turtle species and learn more information. http://www.seaturtleinc.com/turtles.html
Sea World has information on taxonomy, species, photos, behavior, etc. at http://www.seaworld.org/animal-info/info-books/
sea-turtle/scientific-classification.htm
Poem http://www.seaworld.org/fun-zone/fun-guides/
key-west/turtle-tale.htm
And turtle information: http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/SeaTurtle/home.html
Sea Turtle Restoration Project is a rich and diverse website, full of political action for conservation.
Free fact sheets on all species and their threats to survival: http://www.seaturtles.org/edu_materials.cfm
Sea Turtle Webquest has a sea turtle information scavenger hunt using sea turtle website links. Great links for research: http://www.suttonschools.net/teachers/watts/index.htm
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Endangered Species & Extinction
National Geographic: Accredited lesson plan on Endangered Species (offers K-12) http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/08/g35/
World Wildlife: http://www.worldwildlife.org/endangered/
U.S. Fish and Wildlife: Endangered Species Program: Government site lists endangered, threatened and extinct species and plants. http://www.fws.gov/endangered/
Kids, use
and type in the name of your state, country, and the words animals, plants, extinct. What comes up?
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Global Warming: effects on sea turtles, oceans and beaches
Environmental Protection Agency: http://epa.gov/climatechange/effects/coastal/SLRLandUse.html
National Geographic: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/
08/g68/seatoshiningsea2.html
Seed Magazine: http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/09/
male_turtles_cant_stand_the_he.php
Greenpeace: http://archive.greenpeace.org/climate/
database/records/zgpz0515.html
National Wildlife Magazine: http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/
printerFriendly.cfm?issueID=107&articleID=1342
Cyberpoet: http://www.cyberpoet.com/TurtleMythology.html
Princeton Online offers an art project for grades 4-6 developed by Patti Caiola http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/
elem/Patti-sea.htm
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Squigly’s Story Builder for Kids:
http://www.squiglysplayhouse.com/WritingCorner/
StoryBuilder/index.html is for young children and shows that a very simple, short story can be created when a child fills in the blanks using different words such as names, place, numbers, etc. Once submitted, Squigly creates a story from the list of words.
Fun Stuff: Interactive Games & Quizzes
Caribbean Conservation Corporation: http://www.cccturtle.org/turtletides.php?page=games
National Geographic: “Turtles in Trouble” illustrates the threats to sea turtle survival http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/9911/turtle/
turtle.html
Euroturtle demonstrates the cycle of life, and the threats sea turtles face: http://www.euroturtle.org/game/eduadv.htm
Wonderful interactive tool for learning basic biology of the turtle: http://www.euroturtle.org/clickt/clickt.htm
Another great game whereby you can choose what happens next with the sea turtles: http://www.euroturtle.org/game/
brain/loc(18).htm
Sea World: “ A Calculating Turtle Tale” Use your calculator to complete this turtle story!
http://www.seaworld.org/just-for-teachers/
classroom-activities/4-8/pdf/
A%20Calculating%20Turtle%20Tale.pdf
National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/seamonsters/
timeline/#introduction has a wonderful interactive time line, called “ Sea Monsters- A Prehistoric Adventure”, and the creatures can appear in 3D!
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service http://www.fws.gov/northflorida/SeaTurtles/
Turtle-activity-mat.pdf
Games such as Connect the Dots and turtle word scramble.
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