Skype Virtual Field Trip #2

The Sea Turtle Hospital in Key West, Florida

We loved traveling to Key West, Florida for our second Skype Virtual Field Trip!  I think the highlight of our trip was meeting Bubble-butt the Turtle who was hit by a boat and when his shell grew back, it grew over his injury creating a bubble on his shell.  To help him swim the Turtle hospital will put led weights on his shell so he doesn't stay at the surface all of the time!  Because of his injury, he will live at the Turtle hospital for the rest of his life!  He has already been there for 19 years!!!  It was very impressive listening to all the wonderful things the people at the Sea Turtle Hospital, Key West have going on and all that they do to help out injured and sick Sea Turtles!

 This is a turtle that has so built up gas from eating plastic, so as she recovers they have placed led weights so she can still swim under the water instead of being stuck at the surface!

 I truly love watching my students being completely emerged in to a lesson!!!  Look at the concentration and interest in their faces!

 These loggerhead turtles are in timeout for trying to bite other turtles!  They also use the PVC pipe structures to help scratch their shells and clean any algae off of them, like how they would use rocks in the ocean to help keep themselves clean. 

 We learned that Loggerhead Sea Turtles are not very friendly with other Loggerhead Sea Turtles because they are a very territorial breed so they often will go after and try to bite other turtles with their very strong jaws!

This is an example from our Skype Virtual Field Trip Journals to help us keep track of all our Virtual Expeditions for the rest of the year!  I love how they are keeping track with what parts of the US we have visited and what their favorite part of each trip was!  Way to go, explorers!!!