This movie was a team effort: some scientists strapped a video camera onto the back of a sea turtle. We can now watch everything the turtle saw while swimming through the beautiful Great Barrier Reef. Sea turtles swim at less than 2 miles an hour but can stay underwater for 5 minutes at a time. Many of them swim up to 1,500 miles to lay eggs on the same beach where they were born. Carrying a camera is easier!
Wee ones: If a turtle has 2 back legs and 2 front legs, how many legs does it have?
Little kids: Sea turtles swim as slowly as we walk. Walk across the room and count your steps. What number did you reach? Bonus: Sea turtles’ shells have 5 hexagon shapes on top, with 4 pentagons on the left and 4 more on the right. How many total shapes is that?
Big kids: If the turtle goes underwater at exactly 3:55 pm and stays under for 5 minutes, at what time does it come up? Bonus: If this turtle is 51 years old, how much longer than you has it lived — or how much longer have you lived?
Answers:
Wee ones: 4 legs.
Little kids: Different for everyone…see if you can count that high! Bonus: 13 shapes.
Big kids: At 4:00 pm. Those 5 minutes finish the 60 minutes in the hour. Bonus: Different for everyone…subtract your age in years from 51, or subtract 51 from your age.
