St. Catherines Island Sea Turtle Conservation Program: Resources: Classroom Presentations

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Resources: Classroom Presentations

This page links to several presentations you are welcome to use in your classroom.

Handbook for Sea Turtle Interns
A 49-page manual detailing aspects of the St. Catherines Sea Turtle Program and its protocols in a 8.5 x 11 inch (letter) size format separated into 11 PDF documents:

Table of Contents (i-v) (178KB)
Program Overview and Island History (p. 1-5) (1MB)
Program Goal, Objective, and Participants (p. 6-9) (611KB)
Working on St. Catherines and Island Hazards (p. 10-16) (557KB)
Daily Operations and Management (p. 17-20) (500KB)
Classification and Natural History (p. 21-22) (200KB)
Loggerhead Sea Turtles (p. 23-28) (710KB)
Mortality and Protocols (p. 29-33) (718KB)
Habitat and Nest Reading (p. 34-41) (2MB)
Depredation, Strandings, and Assessment (p. 42-45) (1MB)
Acknowledgments, bibliography, and glossary (p. 46-49) (180KB)

Classroom Turtle Poster
A 20 page bulletin board presentation (in Microsoft Word [1.6MB]) printed out in landscape format on 8.5 x 11 inch (letter) size paper. The content includes a summary of turtles, sea turtles, conservation of sea turtles, and The St. Catherines Island (GA) Sea Turtle Conservation Program. Final size with [4 pages high and 5 pages wide] will be a presentation 34 inches high by 55 inches wide or [5 pages high by 4 pages wide] will be a presentation 42.5 inches high by 44 inches wide. The impact will be greater if you print on high quality 24 lb paper with a bright white finish.

Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists Poster (in two parts: left [4.4MB] and right [7.8MB])
This poster was presented at the 2003 Annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists. It is entitled "Nesting Traces of Sea Turtles: A Retrospective Perspective." It summarizes the discovery of the world's first fossilized sea turtle nesting structures and relates them to nesting structures of Loggerhead sea turtles on St. Catherines Island. These PowerPoint™ documents may be printed out at various magnifications for use in your classroom or used as images in new PowerPoint presentations.

The presentation of information to colleagues is done by formal publication in peer reviewed journals, by talks at professional meetings, and by poster presentations at professional meetings (such as this "poster") presented at the 2003 SVP Meeting. The "poster" presentation acts as device to summarize ongoing projects in an interesting and informative manner to keep colleagues appraised of one's research interests.

2001 GeoTrec LLC PowerPoint Slideshow
A 46-slide presentation using PowerPoint allows the exportation of an infrastructure for teacher-interns to exploit by changing textual content, images, and sequence. Teacher-interns often integrate pictures of themselves in the field showing their students an active, often dirty and sweaty teacher, engaged in learning by doing.

Part 1 (4.2MB)
Part 2 (6.4MB)
Part 3 (3.5MB)
Part 4 (3.1MB)

The 2001 GeoTrec slide show allows teachers to immediately present content to their students and is often modified to match mandated local and state standards for use in individual curricula.