To learn about sea turtles, each seventh age class chose a turtle from www.tourdeturtles.org . This website tracks the movements of real sea turtles as they completed their 1,000 mile "race" back to their nesting beaches. Each turtle was swimming in the "tour de turtles" to raise awareness about a different issue impacting the survival of sea turtles. Students learned about the issues from their turtles, and watched live videos of the sea turtle tagging (attaching their GPS trackers) and release. We also watched videos of tiny sea turtles hatching and making their first journey down the beach to the ocean. It was a terrific way to learn more about the real issues facing turtles as well as getting to know more about our giant reptile friends (after measuring out our turtles shells, we learned that our sea turtles are LARGER than the average seventh age student!)
We also learned about land turtles as we adopted "Pablo", a Russian Tortoise donated to our class by an older Calvert student. He helps us remember that reptiles are cold blooded as he basks under his heat lamb while nibbling on strawberries and tomatoes.
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