The document discusses the life cycle of sea turtles and provides resources for teaching students about it. It begins by explaining the rationale for focusing on sea turtles rather than other common examples like butterflies. It then provides details on videos, podcasts, and organizations that can help teach about the challenges sea turtles face as they grow from hatchlings to adults, including dangers they experience throughout their lives. A variety of internet-based teaching materials like apps and websites are also listed which allow students to learn interactively about sea turtles and different turtle species.

1. The Life of a Sea Turtle
4th Grade
Anthony Messina

2. Rationale
• The rationale behind this powerpoint is to teach
students about the life cycle of animals.
Traditionally, students would learn about the life
cycle of a butterfly or a frog so I want to change it
up by showing what it is like for a sea turtle and
the difficulties sea turtles have growing to
become a full grown adult sea turtle.
• By including technology with this topic, students
will be able to see the struggles a baby sea turtle
has with growing old.

3. Blog
• The Sea Turtle Restoration Project gives
people the opportunity to help protect and
restore the number of sea turtles in the world.
• One of the trips this organization puts on is to
clean beaches where sea turtles nest to
promote the growth of this species.

4. Video
• Here is a series of videos that show the life of
a sea turtle.
• The first video is of a mother sea turtle
nesting.
• The second shows what happens after the sea
turtles hatch.

5. Podcast
• This pocast talks about the dangers a sea
turtle experiences throughout its lifetime.

6. Internet Organizations
• Seaturtle.org
• This organization is a general website that
attempts to raise awareness of how closely
sea turtles are to being extinct.
• They offer students ways to gain information
about the 7 species of sea turtles

7. Organization
• Defenders of Wildlife
• This organization has basic facts about sea
turtles.

8. Organization
• Sea Turtle Conservatory
• This organization gives ideas on how to help
sea turtles in your own way.
• Students can also track sea turtles and follow
migration patterns

9. Kidspiration

10. Teaching Materials

11. Teaching Materials
• Turtles of the Word App
• This app allows students to search all sea
turtles and other species of turtles
• They can learn about basic information on
each species of turtles and can see pictures of
them at the same time

12. Teaching Materials
• TURTLES!
• This app can also help enhance students views
of turtles.
• This is a quiz app
• Questions about sea turtles will be shown and
students need to choose which species is most
cloesly related to the question

13. Teaching Materials

14. Subject-specific Internet Based
Resource
• Ask an Expert
• This internet based resource allows students
to ask any question about a sea turtle
• They can learn about migration patterns, what
they eat, how long they live, etc.

15. Uses of the Internet
• http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wildideas/kids/
• This website can allow students to search for
turtles and learn more about other types of
turtles.
• They can also learn about different animals
while learning about different stages of
animals growth

16. Uses of the Internet
• http://www.encyclopedia.com/
• Using this website students can search for the
different migration patterns of each of the 7
types of sea turtles

17. Web 2.0
• With this site, students can search videos on
their own about turtles.
• They can learn about different aspects of
turtles with this resource

18. Slideshare
• This can be viewed on slideshare