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The Mini Page — 2009 Activities
Sensational Swimmers
Issue 19
May 9 - 15, 2009
This week's standards:
- Students understand the characteristics and life cycles of organisms.
(Science: Life Science)
- Students understand the interactions of animals and their environments.
(Science: Life Science)
Activities:
1. Draw a large sea turtle on a piece of paper. Paste newspaper words and pictures that tell about the sea turtle around the edges of your picture. Write a sentence about your picture.
2. Create a set of turtle trading cards. Put these words on individual 3-by-5-inch cards:
leatherback turtle, female turtle, male turtle, freshwater turtle and Kemp¹s ridley turtle.
Now write an important fact about each turtle on the back of its card. Share your cards with friends.
3. Look through newspaper ads and the "pets" section of the classified ads to see how many different reptiles you can find. List them. What reptile appears most often?
4. How are these things important to sea turtles: (a) undeveloped beaches, (b) scutes, (c) curved shells, and (4) low heart rates?
5. Pretend you are nominating turtles for an Animal Hall of Fame. Make a list of facts about turtles from The Mini Page. Now use the facts to write a letter explaining why turtles deserve special consideration from humans.
Standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
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