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	The Task

The Task

The Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle needs your help. Your task is to learn about this Texas visitor and its status on the endangered species list, then work together to design a plan of action to educate and influence others to help protect this animal:

Your team will create a product to summarize what you learn and present to your class. Your group may choose one product to create from the following:

children's picture book
pamphlet or brochure
web site with at least 6 web pages
Powerpoint slide show
newsletter

Once you have gathered your information and created your product, you will determine an action YOU can take to protect these sea turtles.

The Task

Children's Picture Book

Your group will construct a children's book.

Each group member will design pages for the area researched.

Read through the picture books that are provided for you and see how other authors have developed their ideas for a story.

Your group may generate its own idea for a story or use one of the suggestions below. Weave information from each group member's research into your story. Some ideas to consider for the picture book include:

Write an adaptation of The Three Little Pigs changing the main characters to three Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtles. The homes that the sea turtles could be descriptions of problems the sea turtle faces in the real world; capture in a shrimper's net, floating on bed of sargassum, returning to beach to lay eggs, etc.
You could write about a sea turtle growing up and problems it faces.
You could write a story about one of the turtle in a rehabilitation facility and imagine how it got there.
You could write a story of a hatchling being released at the Padre Island National Seashore and how it grows up.
You could write a story about Waldo growing up and write about how he lost his flipper. Waldo is a Kemp's Ridley sea turtle living at the Texas State Aquarium. Click here for information on Waldo.

You must design a storyboard for the book.

design cover for the picture book
create a title page
Story should include details about : adaptations, behavior, migration and environmental concerns facing the sea turtle
Include ways to help protect the sea turtle
Credit any work that you take from other sources, such as photographs or images, from other web sites on a credit page. Cite where you found your information on what you learned (web site addresses, book or video sources, etc.)

See Children's Picture Book Rubric.

Pamphlet or Brochure

Use this Brochure as a planning guide or storyboard for your product. It is a pdf file and you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader (free download) to view the sample tri-fold brochure. This was designed using two pages of paper and printing on the front and back. Adjust the size of your columns to fit the information you want to share. Brochure was created in Microsoft Publisher. (MS Publisher file is attached for teacher use.)

Must include these columns (tri-fold brochure)

title and introduction (suggestion: explain why you believe it is important to learn about the sea turtle, grab the reader's attention)
adaptations specialist column
behavior specialist column
migration specialist column
environmental specialist column
end with ways to help protect the sea turtle
Credit any work that you take from other sources, such as photographs or images, from other web sites in a credit column. Cite where you found your information on what you learned (web site addresses, book or video sources, etc.)

See Brochure Rubric.

Web Site

Your group will construct a web site with a teacher's assistance (Campus Instructional Technologist, Librarian, or Teacher). Your web site will have a home page and at least 4 pages that link off the home page. Each group member will create a web page for the area researched.

Please note: Use lowercase letters and no spaces when naming web pages.
Web Pages for the site include:

home page (suggestion: explain why you believe it is important to learn about the sea turtle, grab the reader's attention)
adaptations specialist page
behavior specialist page
migration specialist page
environmental specialist page

Your group must create a storyboard for the web site.

Storyboard - This is a planning tool for your group to determine what photographs or images to use and where to place your text. Remember to place words within a table on your page and all graphics must go in your web folder. Be sure to cite your work as you build your page.

Click on the site map link to see more.

Templates for each page are provided for your use.

Note to Teacher and students:

On our campus, students and teacher will have assistance from librarian and campus instructional technologist on web design with students. The classroom teacher is not assisting the students with web page creation.
In using the templates, you will need to have a main folder created for the group's home page and then subfolder for each specialist. My main folder was entitled web_student. Four subfolders were named for the specialists (adaptations, behavior, migration, and environment). The save_turtles web page should contain ways we can save the Kemp's Ridley sea turtles. It is important that student remember to place any graphics or video inside their own folder.

You will have a home page or title page and then 5 linking web pages for your web site.

Templates Create a main folder and name the folder: web_student (you may replace this with group name, such as web_group_1. Save the template for Group's Home Page inside. Credit any work that you take from other photographs, images, or sounds from other web sites on each web page you create. Credit any work that you take from other sources, such as photographs or images, from other web sites. Cite where you found your information on what you learned (web site addresses, book or video sources, etc.)
group's home page (suggestion: explain why you believe it is important to learn about the sea turtle, grab the reader's attention)
Create a folder and name the folder: adaptations. Save the adaptations specialist page inside the folder.	Create a folder and name the folder: behavior. Save the behavior specialist page inside the folder.	Create a folder and name the folder: migration. Save the migration specialist page inside the folder.	Create a folder and name the folder: environment. Save the environmental specialist page inside the folder.	Create a folder and name the folder: save_turtles. Save the save_turtles web page inside the folder.
adaptations specialist page	behavior specialist page	migration specialist page	environmental specialist page	save_turtles page

See Web Page Rubric.

Powerpoint slide show

Storyboard - Use this as a planning guide for text and placement of related graphics in your PowerPoint. This is a planning tool. The planning tool was created in Microsoft Word. This file is attached for teacher use.

Must include

copyright slide - if using copyrighted work(s), students must include a copyright notice slide at the beginning of the slide show
title slide - Give a title for your project and list group members
introduction slide - give an introduction that will engage the audience (suggestion: explain why you believe it is important to learn about the sea turtle, grab the reader's attention)
Each specialist will prepare at least 3 slides (may be up to 5 slides) on the area researched:
slide(s) - develop at least 3 ways to help protect the Kemp's Ridley sea turtles
credit or citation slide

Credit any work that you take from other photographs, images, or sounds from other web sites on credit slide. If using copyrighted work you must include an introduction slide for copyrighted work. Cite where you found your information on what you learned (web site addresses, book or video sources, etc.)

See PowerPoint Rubric.

Storyboard (displays as pdf file) - Sample Newsletter included. Use this for planning your own newsletter. Microsoft Publisher was used to create the 4 page newsletter sample with the Voyage Newsletter Wizard. MS Publisher 98 file attached.

Must include these columns:

title and introduction (suggestion: explain why you believe it is important to learn about the sea turtle, grab the reader's attention)
adaptations specialist column
behavior specialist column
migration specialist column
environmental specialist column
column on ways to help protect the sea turtle
credit column- Credit any work that you take from other locations, such as photographs or images from other web sites on final page of your newsletter. Cite where you found your information on what you learned (web site addresses, book or video sources, etc.)

See Newsletter Rubric.

Citation:

Please credit photographs and MPEG video in the product you create.
Look for citation information at the bottom of each page in the Digital Photo Gallery.

Credits:
Rollover Photo (1st image) was taken at the Turtle Bend Exhibit at the Texas State Aquarium.
Rollover Photo Credit: Hatchling (2nd image) Courtesy of USGS Photo
Photo Credit in Flash Animation: Ridley Nesting Turtle, Hatchlings and Release Photographs Courtesy of USGS Photo

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