Turtle Tracker
2001
A WebQuest for Grade 3 (Sea Turtles)
Designed by
Heather Oldford
x2000jii@stfx.ca

Introduction | Task | Process | Evaluation | Conclusion | Credits
Teacher Page

Introduction

You are a secret agent working for turtle affairs. All of the sea turtle files have been stolen. Your help is needed to find evidence so we can rebuild the files.
Agents, you have your orders, good luck and be careful out 
       there. 
 

The Task
Your mission includes finding the following information about sea turtles;

• What type of animal are they? 
• Name their characteristics.
• How many types of sea turtles are there? Name atleast three.
• What do they eat?
• How are their senses different from ours?
• Where do sea turtles live?Describe their habitat? 
• What does extinction mean? 
• How is extinction affecting sea turtles?
• What can we do to help the sea turtles.

The Process

       1. Your class will be divided into task forces (Groups of Four)
       2. You must work together to answer all of the questions.
       3. Each student must record the answers.
       4. The group answers should be put together and handed in to 
           your teacher. This information should typed and organized in a 
           question and answer format with the question as the heading.
           Each student must type two questions and put his/her name
           their work. 

  Use the following links to find your information:
 

General information

Sea turtles

Sea turtles habitat

Sea turtles senses

Sea turtles physical characteristics

Describe to the learners how their performance will be evaluated. Specify whether there will be a common grade for group work vs. individual grades.

	OK  Agent 1	Good  Agent 2	Very Good Agent 3	Super Agent 4	Score
General species information on sea turtles	You need to do some more investigating you don't have enough information.	You are coming along allright but you are misssing some of the key information.	Great Job you have all of the key information.	Excellent work you have all key information plus additional things you found interesting.
Extinction component: definition and relationship with sea turtles.	Only one component completed (missing definition or relation information) .	Attempt made to include both compnents but relevant information is missing.	Great job you have included all relevant material.	Excellent work you have done extra work that was not required.
Group worked as a team	Group worked poorly together they did not communicate and left some components undone .	Group completed work but did not collaborate well there was a lot of individual effort as opposed to group effort. . .	Great job your group worked together to complete all tasks and shared the learning experience. .	Super job you worked together, learned together and shared your ideas. Your group has found the appropriate information to fully restore the turtle files!!.
Presentation of material	Relevant material missing and file disorganized.	Relevant material included but file disorganized ..	Great work you have put together an organized file with all relevant information..	Your file is both organized and informatitive Congratulations your work is fantastic!!

http://www.exeter.ac.uk/telematics/EuroTurtle/intro.htm#general

http://swflorida.com/turtletime/index_frame.htm

http://www.cccturtle.org/overview.htm

http://www.seaworld.org/Sea_Turtle/sthabit.html

http://www.seaworld.org/Sea_Turtle/stsenses.html

http://www.seaworld.org/Sea_Turtle/stphysical.html

http://www.seaworld.org/Key_West/turtletale.html

http://www.seaworld.org/Sea_Turtle/stbooks.html

http://www.turtletimes.com/Sea%20Turtles.htm ;