Turtle Challenge

Driving Question: How can we share information about turtles and convince people to help protect turtles in our state?

Background This week we read Turtle Bay by Savior Pirotta and learned many interesting facts about turtles.

Challenge Design and create a project that shows what you are learning about sea turtles including their adaptations and habitat. Your project should also convince others to help take care of turtles in our environment.

Criteria Your project must:  Have a least 5 facts that you learned from your research (at least two different sources)  Be attractive, colorful, and use correct spelling  Be persuasive - convince others to save turtles in Virginia

Possible Project Ideas: Technology – Comic Life, Keynote Presentation, Pixie slide show Children’s Engineering – 3D Turtle model, turtle habitat (must include a moving part) Art/music – Turtle diagram, write a song to sing to the class Physical Activity – Game (something that gets kids moving and lets us know what you have learned about turtles) Your Choice – If you have another idea, explain it to the teacher for permission.

Materials: Computer, items in the CAVE or your pencil box **ask for materials not listed

Time: You will be given 3 class work sessions for 45 minutes each.

1. I plan to create ______.

How I plan to manage my time… Work Session 1 Work Session 2 Work Session 3 2. The materials I would like to use are ______

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3. Where do you plan to find your information? ______

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4. How do you plan to convince people to save turtles in Virginia? ______

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Research – Pick the 5 facts you plan to use on your project.

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Project Elements 4 3 2 1 5 facts about sea 3 – 4 facts about sea 2 facts about sea Less than 2 facts Turtle Facts turtles turtles included turtles included included

Project strongly Project convinces Project mentions Project does not Persuasive convinces others to others to save Virginia’s turtles, mention saving save Virginia’s Virginia’s turtles. but is not Virginia’s sea turtles. convincing. turtles. Almost all words are Most words are Many misspelled Most words are Spelling spelled correctly spelled correctly words spelled incorrectly

Used time wisely and Used most time Had some Did not use time Time management project was wisely and project is difficulty managing wisely and the completed on time mostly complete. time and project is project is somewhat incomplete. complete. Project is neat, Project includes two Project only Project is not neat, Neatness and colorful, and creative. of the following includes one of the colorful, or creative. features: neat, following features: creativity colorful, and neat, colorful, and creative creative Student was able to Student shared the Student was Student did not Presentation share project with the project with the difficult to share the project class in a clear and class, but was not understand during with the class. concise manner. always clear and the presentation. concise.

Extensions: 1. Write a persuasive letter to an elected official convincing them to help protect sea turtles. 2. If you were elected president, what would you do to save the sea turtles? 3. Create a poster encouraging others to save sea turtles. Your poster can be hand drawn or created using pixie, comic life, or a computer program of your choosing. Name: ______

1. Name three types of sea turtles. ______

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2. Which sea turtles can be found in the waters of Virginia? ______

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3. Describe the turtle’s habitat. ______

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4. List three predators of the sea turtle. ______

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5. List three animals that sea turtles prey upon. ______

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6. Are sea turtles carnivores, omnivores, or herbivores? How do you know? ______

7. Draw a food chain including sea turtles.

8. Draw a diagram (picture) of a sea turtle. Label at least 4 body parts. 9. What are some adaptations that sea turtles have to survive? ______

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10. Do sea turtles migrate, hibernate, or both? Explain. ______

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11. What factors endanger sea turtles? ______

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12. What can we do to protect sea turtles? ______

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13. Find at least two more interesting facts about sea turtles. ______

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List the resources you used to find your information. ______

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