Education & Awareness Resources

You can find the activity on page 5 of the Educator's Guide. You will need to download a short movie about sharks as an introduction. Look up on the internet which species of sharks occur in your area.

The size of each trophic level is demonstrated with different amounts of dried food. You can demonstrate various scenarios. The Educator's Guide is a a PowerPoint which can be shown to the students.

The booklet doesn't include any activities but can be combined with other turtle activities. Although the booklet is made for Guadeloupe, all species occur in Asia as well.

Each student is a turtle and has 50 eggs or is a threat, for instance a predator. The turtles have to try to lay eggs as often as possible and avoid all the threats. Students discus the game afterwards. You can find the game on page 14 of the Educator's guide.

Students build a watershed in a big plastic container, using sand to model land with mountains. By adding water (rain) on the land, they get an idea of how the water enters the ocean through different waterways. They add 'marine debris' in their model where people live and see what happens with it while it is raining. Students discuss what they can do to prevent marine debris entering the ocean. The activity can be found on page 12 of the Educator's Guide.

They start with brainstorming which animals with shells live in the ocean. Students observe different shells and make two groups of shells: healthy shells and shells affected by acidification. They try to break a shell from each group by putting as much weight weight on top of the shell until one breaks. Students discuss the results. The activity can be found on page 5 of the Educator's guide.