Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day - Sea Turtles

We've been learning about ocean herps, and spent a lot of time on Sea Turtles. Growing up in Florida, these have always been one of my favorite ocean animals. When I worked in Daytona, one of the gals there was on Turtle Patrol, and I loved hearing how she was working to save the sea turtles. I wish I knew her now, so she could also share with DS#1. Anyway, one of the activities in Zoology 2 was to try to crawl like a sea turtle, with just front flippers... this was a tough task, but fun for the kids.

Another activity was to measure out a Leatherback Sea Turtle to see how big they grow. They get to be roughly 9 feet long and 6 feet wide- big enough for all three kids to sit on his back!


For review, we used this game I found online awhile back. I tweaked it just a bit to fit our needs. Most of the questions and activites are in a power point game, but I printed out game cards that went along with the questions in our Zoology 2 book. If you'd like those, post a request below with your e-mail address and I'll send them to you. We still used the Danger and Research activities in her game. Miss Ebert did a GREAT job with this game, and it made for a really fun review! I'm sure we'll play this game again and again, and continue to learn each time.

She had cute little print out turtles for your game pieces, but I had some sea turtle beads from forever ago, and we used those for our playing pieces.