What are Sea Turtles?

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Objective

I can describe what sea turtles are using relating verbs: have, be, belong to

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Key concepts

3 concepts

  1. 1

    Hawksbill sea turtles have a cute, pointed beak and long, flat front flippers with dark, checkered spots.

  2. 2

    A hawksbill sea turtle's favorite food is sea sponges, but they also eat jellyfish and anemones.

  3. 3

    The hawksbill sea turtle's eggs are about the size and shape of ping pong balls and stay covered in the nest for almost 60 days.

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Practice

3 questions

1

A hawksbill sea turtle ____ a pointed beak.

2

Sea turtle flippers ____ them to swim well, but make crawling on land difficult.

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Exit ticket

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Describe a hawksbill sea turtle using the following sentence stems: A hawksbill sea turtle has... A hawksbill sea turtle is... A hawksbill sea turtle belongs to...

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