1. The Life of a Sea Turtle4th Grade Anthony Messina

2. Rationale The rationale behind this powerpoint is to teachstudents about the life cycle of animals.Traditionally, students would learn about the lifecycle of a butterfly or a frog so I want to change itup by showing what it is like for a sea turtle andthe difficulties sea turtles have growing tobecome a full grown adult sea turtle. By including technology with this topic, studentswill be able to see the struggles a baby sea turtlehas with growing old. 3. Blog The Sea Turtle Restoration Project givespeople the opportunity to help protect andrestore the number of sea turtles in the world. One of the trips this organization puts on is toclean beaches where sea turtles nest topromote the growth of this species. 4. Video Here is a series of videos that show the life ofa sea turtle. The first video is of a mother sea turtlenesting. The second shows what happens after the seaturtles hatch. 5. Podcast This pocast talks about the dangers a seaturtle experiences throughout its lifetime. 6. Internet Organizations Seaturtle.org This organization is a general website thatattempts to raise awareness of how closelysea turtles are to being extinct. They offer students ways to gain informationabout the 7 species of sea turtles 7. Organization Defenders of Wildlife This organization has basic facts about seaturtles. 8. Organization Sea Turtle Conservatory This organization gives ideas on how to helpsea turtles in your own way. Students can also track sea turtles and followmigration patterns 9. Kidspiration 10. Teaching Materials 11. Teaching Materials Turtles of the Word App This app allows students to search all seaturtles and other species of turtles They can learn about basic information oneach species of turtles and can see pictures ofthem at the same time 12. Teaching Materials TURTLES! This app can also help enhance students viewsof turtles. This is a quiz app Questions about sea turtles will be shown andstudents need to choose which species is mostcloesly related to the question 13. Teaching Materials 14. Subject-specific Internet BasedResource Ask an Expert This internet based resource allows studentsto ask any question about a sea turtle They can learn about migration patterns, whatthey eat, how long they live, etc. 15. Uses of the Internet http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wildideas/kids/ This website can allow students to search forturtles and learn more about other types ofturtles. They can also learn about different animalswhile learning about different stages ofanimals growth 16. Uses of the Internet http://www.encyclopedia.com/ Using this website students can search for thedifferent migration patterns of each of the 7types of sea turtles 17. Web 2.0 With this site, students can search videos ontheir own about turtles. They can learn about different aspects ofturtles with this resource 18. Slideshare This can be viewed on slideshare