Sea Turtle Notebooking Pages for Elementary & Middle School Students
These Sea Turtle notebooking pages and suggested resources will help your elementary & middle school kids learn, and then record, what they have discovered about these marine reptiles.
Let your students use these Sea Turtle Notebooking Pages that come in three differentiated levels as a part of their marine biology study while they write, draw, and color what they’ve learned about the seven existing species of creatures in the suborder Cryptodira in the order Testudines.
The seven species are the Kemp’s ridley, the olive ridley, the loggerhead, the leatherback, the flatback, the green turtle, and the hawksbill. All but the leatherback turtle have a hard shell, which has a leathery shell.
With these Sea Turtle notebooking pages, your kids can write about the different species, habitats, diets, or endangered status.
Or they can write facts or stories about how marine turtles are different from freshwater turtles, how they migrate, or their biofluorescence.
These notebooking printables would even work for copying poems or quotes about marine turtles for handwriting practice.
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Recommended Resources for Your Study of Sea Turtles
Books List
For your younger kids: One Tiny Turtle: Read and Wonder by Nicola Davies OR June Moon by Kathleen Souza OR I’ll Follow the Moon by Stephanie Lisa Tara
Sea Turtles by Gail Gibbons
National Geographic Readers: Sea Turtles by Laura Marsh
From Egg to Sea Turtle by Lisa Owings
Go Wild! Sea Turtles by Jill Esbaum
Sea Turtles: Amazing Pictures & Fun Facts on Animals in Nature by Kay De Silva
National Geographic Kids Mission: Sea Turtle Rescue: All About Sea Turtles and How to Save Them by Karen Young
Beneath the Waves: Celebrating the Ocean Through Pictures, Poems, and Stories by Stephanie Drimmer
Videos
Sea Turtle Rescue! with Jonathan Bird’s Blue World This video is about sea turtles that have migrated north for the summer and can’t find their way back south for the fall and winter, becoming hypothermic.
Sea Turtles with Jonathan Bird’s Blue World In this video, Jonathan visits a sea turtle sanctuary in Malaysia to learn about their life cycle (FYI: does include a long section about mating, but it’s not grossly graphic)
Another video from Jonathan Bird’s Blue World, this time about Sea Turtles Fighting over Food off of the tropical island of Roatan. The first part of the video is them looking for sea turtles, so the food fight is at the end.
Nat Geo Kids with What Sam Sees Looks at two sea turtles at a sea turtle rescue center.
Nat Geo Kids with Jack Randall shows us how researchers Tag Green Turtles in the Great Barrier Reef
Turtle: The Incredible Journey DVD A documentary about one tiny turtle out of 10000 that survives to become an adult. Not rated, and family-friendly
Online Resources
Learn About Nature has Facts about Sea Turtles
Leatherback Sea Turtle and Green Sea Turtle facts at Fact Animal
Kidadl tells us about the Flatback Sea Turtle and Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle
Loggerhead Turtle Facts with Nat Geo Kids
Hawksbill Sea Turtle at Active Wild and Olive Ridley Turtle
Get the Ultimate Guide to Sea Turtles at Active Wild–includes free printable fact sheets!
Fun Extras!
Life Cycle of Sea Turtles Plastic Animal Figures
Sensory (Heated & Scented) Sea Turtle Stuffed Animal
Discovery Real Life Sticker Book: Ocean
The Sea Turtle notebooking pages come in 3 different levels to fit all of your students’ needs. There’s a large elementary lined one, a smaller spaced elementary lined one, and a regular lined one.
Each level of notebooking page also comes in a color graphic, with a photo, and in black/white in case you are trying to save on printer ink costs. There are 12 pages total.
Download your copy of the Sea Turtle Notebooking & Journaling printables from the Free Resource Library. Look under Individual Notebooking > Science > Animals > Ocean Animals
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More Resources for Your Marine Biology Study of Sea Creatures
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