Turtle Teacher Resources

The Denver Zoo features a comprehensive overview of the alligator snapping turtle focusing on its habitat, range, adaptations, diet, physical characteristics, and more.

A brief overview of the Turtle Bayou Resolutions, which played a role in the secession of Texas from Mexico and the creation of the Republic of Texas.

Find out how a common backyard habitat can become a welcome habitat site for turtles.

Multiplayer math game where turtle teams on skateboards race by rounding whole numbers to the nearest 10's place value.

Sea turtles are one of the earth's oldest animals living in the ocean. They have been around since the time of the dinosaurs. That's over 100 million years! Sea turtles are different from land turtles in two primary ways. Learn about Sea...

Learn about the interesting and unusual relationship between butterflies and turtles in the Amazon rainforest.

This resource presents a brief but complete description of the physical characteristics, diet, size, range, population status, and natural predators of the Green Sea Turtle.

This informative site makes an interesting case as to why turtles should not be pets. What do turtles need and don't need is discussed along with what can we do to help turtles survive.

Get acquainted with the alligator snapping turtle while browsing this animal guide from the Brookfield Zoo. Content includes quick facts and highlights on the appearance, habitat, social behaviors, and mating habits of the largest...

Biologists crack the case of sea turtles' lost years with a little help from a nail salon technician.

Endangered Kemp's ridley turtles got sick when they stayed too long in cold water. They moved them to the Turtle Hospital in the Florida Keys for recovery efforts.

Meet the green sea turtle and discover details about its behavior, eating habits, range, conservation status, and other unique facts.

The survival of sea turtles is threatened, but fortunately they have a champion. Academy Research Fellow, Wallace J Nichols is pursuing his lifelong passion to help save them for future generations. This is the fascinating story of how...

Wallace J. Nichols is a California Academy of Sciences researcher who studies and tracks sea turtles. The more he learns about them, the more he realizes they are in serious trouble. [4:22]

Learn the difference between turtles and tortoises, the different types, and other interesting facts.

Find photographs and information on the identification, ecology, and behavior of the Texas spiny soft-shelled turtle.

Resource features the Pond Turtle. Provides a brief description as well as additional information about its reproduction, habitat, life cycle and more.

"The Turtle and the Ducks" is a one page fairy tale/fable a turtle who wants to fly south with the ducks. They develop a plan, but the turtle will have to keep his mouth shut. It is followed by constructed-response questions which...

Recounts the life of Little Turtle. Little Turtle was the war chief of the Miami Indians, the most powerful Indian Tribe in Ohio, who finally advocated for peace with the new United States government.

This article begins with brief biographical data, but most of it is an address Little Turtle made to President Thomas Jefferson and Henry Dearborn regarding the American government's failure to live up to the conditions of the Treaty of...

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Turtle Dove's Nest and Other Rhymes by William McConnell (1887), a fragment of the Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes book.

This site gives an in-depth description of a snapping turtle, including its behavior, appearance, and classification. The site includes photos and illustrations and an interactive quiz to test your understanding.

This article examines the connection between sea turtles and the Bronze Age in what is present-day Oman in the Middle East.

Article reports on the discovery of a giant turtle bone.