Nov /Dec 2023

Turtle's Winter Trick

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STEM Activity
Can You Breathe Like a Turtle?

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Skills Sheets

Reading Objective:

Students will identify steps turtles use as they prepare to survive the winter and will examine turtles’ adaptation for breathing underwater when the top of the pond is frozen.

Next Generation Science Standards:

K-LS1-1: What animals need to survive

1-LS1: How animals use their external parts to survive

 

Vocabulary:

breathe, frozen, cloaca

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