Turtles Unit Study
Library List:
Bartleby
of the Mighty Mississippi by Phyllis Shalant
Bartleby
of the Big Bad Bayou by Phyllis Shalant
All
About Turtles by Jim Arnosky
Animals
in the Wild: Turtle and Tortoise by Vincent Serventy
The
Magic School Bus Gets Cold Feet: A Book about Warm and Cold-Blooded
Animals by Joanna Cole
Compare and contrast Turtles and Tortoises.
Read The Magic School Bus book. Discuss warm blooded and cold blooded animals.
Read All About Turtles. Do Turtle Worksheet.
Learn about turtles at SanDiegoZoo.org
Learn about the 3 categories of turtles: freshwater, saltwater, and land-dwelling.
Read the Bartleby books. Pretend you are Bartleby and keep a journal. You could write, draw or both.
Choose 3 types of turtles native to your area and study them. Learn to identify them, about their habitat, their food, predators, etc.
Visit a pet store or zoo to see some turtles. Try to determine if they are male or female based on their plastron's curvature.
Read the Tortoise and the Hare fable.
Color turtle coloring sheet.
Turtle Notebooking Pages:
Sea Turtle
Turtle